Tag: BEARSHARE

Today iMesh will launch BearShare 6.0, which is a long-standing p2p file sharing client many people us to download copyrighted music. Apparently, this edition of BearShare is a legalized edition. It sounds like iMeshToGo and BearShareToGo will offer a long awaited solution to the problem of illegal file-sharing, and the other problem of no way for people to buy music in an effective way that is ...

Lime Group LLC, the company behind peer to peer application LimeWire, sued today in federal court by the RIAA for damages including $150,000 per occurance of copyright infringing files. The complaint seeks damages on the grounds that LimeWire, and thus Lime Group LLC, facillitated the trade of copywritten music between users and profited as a result of LimeWire's failure to "block" copyright ...

Free Peers, Inc., the company which produces popular file sharing software BearShare, has reached a $30 million settlement with RIAA and bowed out of the P2P business. The company will be selling all of its BearShare-related intellectual property, including source code, user information, and over 100 domain names, to iMesh, the P2P company that agreed to go "legit" after reached its own $4.1 ...