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BearShare was a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc.
for Microsoft Windows and also a rebranded version of iMesh by MusicLab, LLC, tightly integrated with their music subscription service.
The principal operators of Free Peers, Inc.
were Vincent Falco and Louis Tatta.
Bearshare was launched on December 4, 2000 as a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file sharing application with innovative features that eventually grew to include IRC, a free library of software and media called BearShare Featured Artists,
online help pages and a support forum integrated as dedicated web browser windows in the application; as well as a media player and a library window to organize the user's media collection.
Following the June 27, 2005 United States Supreme Court decision on the MGM Studios, Inc.
v.
Grokster, Ltd.
case the BearShare Community support forums were abruptly closed during negotiations to settle an impending lawsuit with the RIAA. The webmaster and forum
administrator immediately created a new site called Technutopia and the same support staff continue to support the gnutella versions from there.
A few months later the unused Community window was removed from BearShare 5.
1.
On May 4, 2006, Free Peers agreed to transfer all their BearShare-related assets to MusicLab, LLC （an iMesh subsidiary） and use the $30 million raised from that sale to settle with the RIAA. On August 17,
2006, MusicLab released a reskinned and updated version of iMesh named BearSharev6 which connected to its proprietary iMesh network instead of gnutella.
BearShareV6 and its successors offer paid music downloads in the PlaysForSure DRM controlled WMA format as well as free content in various formats, chiefly MP3.
Like BearShare they also include...