Bearshare has been sold out to the riaa
 

Just since I didn't see this information in this forum (and I think it quite important):

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/to...eHello30M.html

"Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc., is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry. The conditions of the settlement were agreed to by the P2P company to avoid further copyright infringement litigation.

Free Peers also agreed not to set up another unlicensed music services. As a federal judge reviews the settlement for final approval, Free Peers has agreed to sell the BearShare technology rights, domain name and user data to iMesh Inc."

Means: Bearshare is now officially a dog of the RIAA.

At first, I want to yell "NOOOOOO!"

but then, I realized, I hated BearShare anyway.

I tried it once, and it didn't work, and everything i download from a Bearshare user is a bad file.

Programs are all viruses, music and video either have bad codecs or the extensions don't match the formats, and documents always come out as nothing but squares.

so, thank you RIAA for taking the garbled mess of BearShare down....
...but plz leave LimeWire alone

Please be careful in being glad that one went down. They were part of the sharing crowd, and so they were a part of our community.

Please don't split the community in petty bickering whle we are being attacked. We can start bickering again, once the RIAA is down.

And besides:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/san...o/15200662.htm

"Record labels files piracy suit over LimeWire file-swap software"

But I think they might lose a few teeth on LimeWire, because the LimeWire folks:
-Give the User the choice to activate a content filter, which only shows creativecommons-licensed material.
-Also serve weed files (promote sharing and downloading legal content).
-Tell the users explicitely, that thehy aren't allowed to breach a copyright.
-Is Open Source, so the LimeWire developers can't control the useage of their program and creating forced filters would only result in users using free spinoffs and in there being no filters at all.

And this is a great time to go Pro, btw, to show the LW team that the Community stands behind them :)

bearshare was and always will be the best unless you're dumb enough to download the malware/virus files.

We've had a lot of such news recently, and I'm not sure we should be rejoicing about any of it. I've never used Kazaa or Bearshare, but as Arne Bab says, the whole comunity is affected.

I wasn't too thrilled to hear about the Kazaa settlement either. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=59615

IM new to this forum and have been using bearshare pro 5.2.5 for a long time and ive never had a problem as long as i take the time to Bitzi ticket my downloads. I have tried limewire but get way more sources with bearshare and faster downloads I think its the best

Just remember that you can't knwo what happens under the hood...

I always advise people stick to the last trusted version and direct them to this thread:
Sticky: BearShare has been sabotaged.

You may not have the source code, but any of these 4.0 - 5.2 versions of BearShare
give you far more information about what's really going on than all the other
servents combined, which is why it is the one to use when weeding through
thickets of fake files and search pollution to get what you really want.

Just sitting here wondering if I should give BearShare a shot. The amount of incomplete downloads through LW has been unbelievable and I've tried to upgrade to LW Pro but the system wouldn't except my credit card. :(

Gave Bearshare a shot last night and about ten minutes later I uninstalled it. I didn't like it at all. LimeWire seems to be more user friendly and straight forward. The moral of this story is: Bearshare sucks!

:) Thank goodness for LW!