As part of the agreement between RIAA and MusicLabs, BearShare will become a legal P2P service by being purchased by iMesh. This new version will be version 6.0 and will be free for the first 30 days and then will cost money. Here are the links I found this story reported at.

http://today.reuters.com/news/Articl...A-IMESH-DC.XML

http://news.digitaltrends.com/article11122.html