CenterSpan Wins Rights To Scour Technology
News CenterSpan Communications won the rights to defunct Scour's file-swapping technology in a bankruptcy auction Tuesday, planting the seeds of a potential competitor to Napster's new music service. CenterSpan has said it plans to create a legal file...
[December 13, 2000, 10:52]
Scour Exchange Back In Legal Revival
News CenterSpan Communications, the ambitious peer-to-peer company that bought Scour's technological assets in bankruptcy court earlier this year, kicked off the beta program of its legal version of the service Monday.
[March 27, 2001, 10:25]
The New Scour: Users Will Pay
News CenterSpan Communications, the new owners of Scour's file-swapping technology, plan to start charging users when the service is re-launched sometime before March, a company spokesman said Thursday. There are not the opportunities that there once...
[December 15, 2000, 9:52]
Sony To Promote Music On Old Enemy
News CenterSpan Communications, which bought Scour's assets in bankruptcy court last year, said Tuesday that Sony would promote music from Macy Gray, B2K, Five for Fighting, Flickerstick, and John Mayer through the service, which has been revamped and...
[May 15, 2002, 11:10]
Bidding War For Scour Heats Up
News Late Thursday, online music company Liquid Audio said it would enter the auction for the assets of bankrupt file-swapping company Scour, pitting itself against Listen.com and smaller company CenterSpan Communications.
[December 8, 2000, 9:43]
Listen.com Flirts With Napster Links
News It flirted briefly with file-swapping services once before, bidding on the assets of bankrupt Napster rival Scour, but lost that auction to CenterSpan Communications. Listen.com, a music directory service partly funded by major record labels, is...
[April 17, 2001, 9:16]
Napster Buyout Blocked
News Other companies such as Centerspan, Kontiki and Red Swoosh are already pursuing that notion, building businesses on the idea of distributing content using customers' PCs as storage and delivery hubs. Analysts said that the business and technology...
[September 4, 2002, 7:36]
Paid Content Comes To Kazaa
News This week, Sony agreed to begin distributing some of its content through CenterSpan's Scour peer-to-peer network after the service relaunched with new technology aimed at blocking unauthorised files from its service.
[May 20, 2002, 8:54]
