BearShare is a popular
Gnutella client software package from a company called [Free Peers, Inc.]
?; the software allows its users to share files directly from person to person. It is commonly used to download
MP3 files, but is different from
Napster in that it allows the transfer of other kinds of files as well and does not require traffic through a central server. Bear
Share runs under
Microsoft Windows and is not
free software in the sense of
GNU, although it is free to download.
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