Bear Share

BearShare is a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows, and is now sold by MusicLab, LLC (iMesh).

Contents 1 History 2 Versions 3 References 4 External links

History

Bearshare was a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file sharing application, with a support forum.
Following the June 27, 2005 United States Supreme Court decision on the MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. case the BearShare support forums were closed.
On May 4, 2006, Free Peers agreed to pay $30 million in a settlement with the RIAA and transfer all their BearShare-related assets to MusicLab, LLC. (an iMesh subsidiary).
On August 17, 2006, MusicLab released BearShare v6, a new application unrelated to the original, which does not use the Gnutella protocol at all, but instead operates on the same network as the iMesh client.
In August 2006, MusicLab released another version optimized for video download called BearFlix. The first release was version 1.2.1.
On October 27, 2008, Bearshare v7 with iPod support was released.

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BearShare

Bearshare 8.0.0.67530 running in Windows Vista
Developer(s)	Free Peers, Inc. MusicLab, LLC.
Initial release	?
Stable release	7.0.0.56374 (2008-10-22; 14 months ago)
Preview release
Written in	?
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	?
Type	peer-to-peer file sharing
License	Proprietary software
Website	http://www.bearshare.com/