I am sure you have heard about the Napster Free Music Download website. From this website you could download whichever music you wanted for free. You cannot do that anymore. Don't despairthere are other sites out there providing free music downloads and one of these is called Bearshare.

The Bearshare peer-to-peer software applications promises the same as other 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.

But I am going to talk about Bearshare in this article. This is my experience: When I went to Bearshare they offered a membership in addition to 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 plus another which was a Startup Registry. These were indeed unpleasant and unexpected. I was very trusting of the website, which turned out to be a terrible mistake 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? Anyway, there won't be any free music downloads using Bearshare to my computer. The surprises it gave me outweigh any promise of no monthly charges.