Bear Share has been sabataged I've recently bought the pro version,5.2.1. Does this mean that it is worthless to me now? Who is vinnie and what is his new toy? I'm new to bear share and not up to date on this. |
It will work until Vinnie (the guy who created BearShare) pulls the plug on command of his new RIAA masters. The new toy is the remote control he added in 5.2.0 to stop all downloads or reduce their speed. Of course there is the slim possibility that he won't do it, but now that he has added this shutdown capability while in negotiations with the RIAA I advise that nobody trust any version of BearShare released after 5.2.0. |
its sad to see bs go. maybe there will be a chance to get good bs back. instead of those people from imesh running it. |
Slim chance. The first thing they did was abandon the relatively harmless and removable Whenu adware and replaced it with one of the worst spyware apps and locked it in so you can't run BearShare without being spied upon. It's like they are deliberately trying to destroy BearShare. I wouldn't advise anyone to touch BearShare 5.2.0 and up anymore because you simply cannot trust the people involved in it anymore. That they hide away from us appears to be proof enough that their intentions are to exploit users for a quick buck and that they are still as stupid as in the years they put out that notorious spyware bundle called iMesh. |
just noticed that the stats are now gone http://www.bearshare.com/stats/ Too bad: I was expecting BShare to have shown 1 million users this week, since the stats hit 997 K a few times last week. The page is now "Copyright 2006 Musiclab, LLC All Rights Reserved." |
They probably realized it showed when and how much they were throttling downloads and true to form, they want to avoid the users as much as possible. |
Did Vinnie already shut it down? And who is music lab? Maybe I will make friends with the iMesh guys. Not really. And ask them why did they add Zango. |
Is there nowhere that hosts BearShare's earlier versions now? |
Vinnie is out of the picture now, but he apparently set the average download speed down to 64Kbps before he left and the Musiclab guys (the new RIAA-approved american front of iMesh) apparently haven't corrected it yet. Maybe they don't know how. Left to run free, the average was around 640K. I'm not going to talk to them until they grow up, come out of their shell and face the public as honest men. They know how to find me already but, of course, it looks like we don't matter to them at all except as pockets to pick. :p |
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and there are always copies being shared. No doubt the retro versions sites keep some too. |
I know this is old news but, what about Bearshare Lite? I can still log into it and dl without a problem. Im downloading ten times faster with Bearshare then Limewire. Id hate to lose another good P2P program. |
As long as it's working don't change a thing. Lite is still clean of spyware so far, though the installer has started reporting in whenever somebody installls Lite. |
so lite is still free of spyware? But probably not for long. |
Notta clue. Hopefully it will never happen, but don't upgrade when it nags you. |
I guess I will dl bs lite. Let's see if mcaffee does something. |
I also have bearshare pro 5.2.1, and I was wondering - is there anyway to tell if your download speed is capped? I want to be able to tell - because if this happens I'll switch to an earlier client or to limewire. |
Download something with a lot of sources that usually moves fast. If none of the sources run freely at well over 64K, you are being throttled. As you have Pro, the limit may not have been applied to you. You can get the latest beta in the thread "BearShare has been sabotaged" right above this one. It was compiled with more generous upper limits than Pro, like 50 connections per download. Don't forget you need BearStart to bypass the expiry date. |
There is also an older version of bs lite. On www.filehippo.com. It's a good site for new and old downloads. |
A few other versions ... http://www.filehippo.com/download_bearshare_lite/ |
Is the new one clean? If not I will download an older one. |
Do you want it soaked for a few days before rinsing & washing in concentrated cleansing & then dried out like a sultana? Do you want chips & coke with it on the go? Any other extras ... ? Free iPod adverts in your searches also ... ? :D (xcuse me aw) |
Stay with 5.1.0 and older and you will be fine. |
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