No point in paying for something that doesn't work as good as free software.
That software, in particular, is particularly galling in that it demands you keep up
the payments or the music you already downloaded will stop playing.

Now that you are using the real BearShare start exploring and you will
probably find a lot of music the record companies don't want you to hear
because they don't "own" it. That's one of their biggest fears, that you might
end up buying CDs from real artists instead of their inferior mass market product.