Bearshare Shut Down by RIAA

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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Re:Why I'm not afraid of the RIAA

[Reality Master 101]

makes me uneasy is that Bearshare did not infringe anyone's copyright (the spyware is another matter) yet they still went down in court; why not go after the phone companies for transferring the data next?

Because 99% of Bearshare's activity was piracy, and 99% of the phone company's activity is legitimate.

You idiots should know. Antitroll ICBM.

[twitter]

[list of modbombed posts] ... Troll much? And this is just the past four days. And what about this? People like you shouldn't get modded up just because they post the occasional regurgitated anti-**AA essay and troll the heck out of Slashdot the rest of the time.

Only idiots who waste their lives gaming Slashdot's moderation system care about mod points. Go fuck yourself, John Marriot, aka Ackbar the bartender.

Well, well, well. It looks like you have changed your robots.txt to exclude searches from archive.org and google. That's too bad, I kind of liked looking at you exhort yourself to mod twitter down.

No big deal, any day's page shows how a pathetic and mean spirited loser spends his time. Mod up, Mod down! LOL, what a waste.

I wonder when you are going to be bright enough to change your site registration so you can tell would be employers you grew up and are ashamed of being such a complete asshole for so long. You do realize that site, which constitutes unlawful harassment, makes you the last person anyone would want to hire, don't you? Nah, you'll never get it. Go ahead and play your pathetic little games.