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BearShare P2P Goes Legit

10. September 2006, 17:59 Uhradmin

iMesh on Thursday said it was set to launch a beta of a new version of BearShare, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network that’s run afoul of the recording industry in the past. BearShare, which iMesh acquired in May, is the latest P2P service to go legit.The new service, dubbed BearShare 6.0 “will offer consumers a compelling service inclusive of the traditional benefits common to the P2P file-sharing experience, while assuring compensation to registered rightsholders,” iMesh said in a statement Thursday.

Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent cease-and-desist demands to a number of P2P services, including BearShare, Kazaa, Limewire, and eDonkey. In May 2006, iMesh/BearShare paid the RIAA $30 million to avoid piracy lawsuits. In 2004, iMesh had forked over $4.1 million in a settlement with the RIAA. (Last month, Kazaa settled with the association to the tune of $115 million.)

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.