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Scour Song-swapping Site To Close
News Music file-sharing service Scour announced Tuesday it is to close down its exchange site in the next two days. We believe our unilateral decision to take down the Exchange will facilitate a resolution of the copyright infringement litigation...
[November 15, 2000, 15:41]
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]
Scour Announces Team To Take On The RIAA
News Scour releases details of the legal team that will defend it in the forthcoming copyright infringement lawsuit against the recording industry Wednesday. Fred Bartlit of legal firm Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, will lead Scour's litigation...
[August 9, 2000, 17:03]
Scour Files For Bankruptcy Protection
News In the face of a lawsuit alleging copyright violation Internet entertainment service Scour has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US courts Thursday. Scour, whose Scour Exchange (SX) service allows users to share image, audio and...
[October 13, 2000, 9:01]
News Burst: Scour Lays Off 52 Employees
News Speculation is mounting that US-based firm Scour could be about to close down, as 52 of the company's 64 staff are made redundant Friday. Scour, whose Scour Exchange (SX) search engine lets users share music and video files, was sued for copyright...
[September 4, 2000, 8:50]
Scour Lays Off 52 Employees
News Saying an entertainment industry lawsuit has scared off financial backers, Scour handed 52 of its 64 employees pink slips Friday afternoon. Scour, backed by super agent Michael Ovitz, was sued in July by three entertainment industry associations...
[September 4, 2000, 11:21]
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]
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. The rights to Scour's technology and much of its...
[December 13, 2000, 10:52]
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. It was a lawsuit by the Motion Picture Association...
[December 15, 2000, 9:52]
Is Scour 'Napster With Movies'?
News Just as the Web gave everyone the ability to easily become a publisher, the Napster client and Scour's SX are giving Netizens the ability to be easily become distributors of content other than text and graphics.
[July 24, 2000, 8:56]
Scour Needs DSL To Bring Hollywood Home
News By Autumn UK surfers will be downloading their favourite films from the Net, using tools like Scour as DivX -- a compression standard -- makes movies as easy to compress and distribute as MP3 made songs.
[July 24, 2000, 11:00]
Watch Out, Napster - It's Scour.net!
News Scour.net, one of the more popular web-based multimedia search engines, has released new file-sharing software named Scour Exchange. Like Napster's unofficial competitor Gnutella, Scour Exchange lets users search for just about every multimedia...
[April 5, 2000, 10:55]
News Burst: DSL To Make Movie Downloads Easy
News Downloading movies off the Internet will soon be as easy as downloading music, as ADSL allows visitors to Napster lookalike Scour to share complete copies of films and videos. While downloads via narrowband are time-consuming, BT acknowledges that...
[July 25, 2000, 10:36]
Sony To Promote Music On Old Enemy
News Sony Music Entertainment, one of the companies that sued Scour Exchange to the brink of extinction, will now use the service to promote some of its artists. CenterSpan Communications, which bought Scour's assets in bankruptcy court last year, said...
[May 15, 2002, 11:10]
Aimster Hit With File-swap Suit
News The record industry on Thursday filed a lawsuit against file-swapping company Aimster, charging that it is violating copyrights in much the same way as Napster or Scour, targets of previous lawsuits. The Recording Industry Association of America...
[May 25, 2001, 10:35]
Napster Alternatives Booming
News Late Thursday, two popular sites, Gnutella and Scour posted notices on their Web sites saying extensive traffic had forced them to shut down. Shane Ham, technology policy analyst for the Progressive Policy Institute, says other sites, including...
[July 28, 2000, 8:19]
File-swapping Service Shutters On DoJ Concerns
News Last year, Scour ran into legal woes in part after striking a deal with online storage company I-Drive.com. The movie industry feared that access to large amounts of storage would facilitate illegal film swapping, so Scour backed down and put...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
Movie Industry Targets Gnutella Users
News The MPAA said the crackdown is the result of a month-long investigation by Ranger Online, a company it hired to scour the Web and find cases of copyright infringement. Gnutella presents a unique challenge to those clamping down on copyright...
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
Music Publishers File Latest Lawsuit
News The copyright holders, so far, have been victorious against a handful of companies, effectively stopping file trading on Napster, shutting down Scour and placing Aimster in financial straits. While Napster and Scour ran services that assisted Web...
[November 21, 2001, 10:02]
Startup Spotlight: Wippit Tries To Beat The MP3 Competition
News However, before it can be confident of not landing in the same legal mess as other peer-to-peer services like Napster and Scour it will need to sign deals with the record labels. The music industry is often accused of having been slow to recognise...
[February 22, 2001, 13:46]
