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Bearshare Shut Down by RIAA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Pichu0102 writes "According to WebProNews, Bearshare has been shut down by the RIAA." From the article: " 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."

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  1. Why spare the big fish? by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Emule network is bigger. Why spare it? I have just checked it out and find that the available files now are 677.5 million with about 11 million users. Heck, this beast is huge!

    1. Re:Why spare the big fish? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      If you do some lookups on the IPs and corresponding owners of some of the most popular eMule servers (Untouchable 2.0, for instance), you'll see that they're owned by anti-piracy firms. They are most likely logging and building evidence for further litigation by the RIAA.

      I imagine they see it as being more worthwhile to their cause to moniter these networks and sue users than shut them down and risk a more secure/anonymous service replacing them.

      Be very careful what servers you allow your client to connect to; always doublecheck who owns them and their corresponding nameservers.

    2. Re:Why spare the big fish? by AnyoneEB · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Traditional eDonkey requires servers, at least. Of course, if every eDonkey server got shut down, then the network would probably improve because then everyone would be connected to Kad.

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      Centralization breaks the internet.