Bearshare Free Musical Downloads
 

After the Napster case, there are still many options for free music downloads. On of these is Bearshare. The Bearshare peer-to-peer software applications promises the same as other like programs produced out of the GNU/Gnutella stable. It offers the promise of free musical downloads. It is a bit harder to get a “free download” of the basic Bearshare program than others, such as Limewire and Frostwire. It promises a surprise you won’t like or appreciate; more details follow in a later paragraph. Limewire was eventually obtained from a freeware website on the internet and Frostwire was acquired from the Limewire quite easily. Most of the initial sites offered a Bearshare membership for prices varying from $19.95 to $49.95, but no basic membership. When I went to http://www.bearshare.com, they also offered a membership, but also the basic Bearshare software. I downloaded the software and attempted to install it. The following experience represents a danger still present upon the internet and especially with peer-to-peer applications.

Upon installing the Bearshare basic software package my antivirus application went crazy! It identified two unwanted passengers, an adware robot named WhenU.SaveNow and another which was a Startup Registry called 180Solutions.Zango.SearchAssistant. These were indeed unpleasant and unexpected. I was very trusting of the website, which is a terrible fault of mine. It had all the correct “looks” of a GNU open source website which I allowed to influence me. This caught me totally unaware when my system’s protection stepped in to prevent a possible dangerous event. I now feel that Bearshare and possibly other peer-to-peer sharing software applications may have “Trojans” and other nasties embedded. Using my “leftist” brain I found that I was suspicious of the intentions of say the Record Industry Association of America. What if they were unsatisfied with the impact of their lawsuit against individuals and Napster; maybe setting up pseudo free websites with contaminated software applications, the purpose of which is to scare people off from sharing files, software, audio, and video. I know what I’m writing is totally improvable; it sounds as preposterous as claiming that sharing files on the internet can harmfully reduce musical CD sales. I wonder who would believe that one? Anyway you can that there won’t be any free music downloads using Bearshare.exe. The surprises it might contain outweigh any promise of no monthly charges.

Bearshare is a great source of all kind of music downloads, free as well as cheap. Why not give it a try? Use these tips to make dealing with free musical downloads a lot easier. If you follow the basics you will get the music you want for free.