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Using the Scour Media Agent, users could gain access to a wide range of media hosted by other servers and websites. The program, however, was less reliable than those based on the peer-to-peer paradigm--such as Napster--which allow users to download files directly from other clients who were also logged into to the service...
Then, in the spring of 2000, after Napster rocked the music industry with its MusicShare software, Scour released its own peer-to-peer program, the Scour Exchange. With the tagline, "Mine! Mine! It's all mine! Music. Movies. Pictures.," Scour Exchange gained an estimated user base of 5 million...
...course, I used Napster too, but you couldn't get video there," Fries says. "When I'd log into Scour Exchange, there were sometimes up to 40 terabytes of files on there, and a lot more variety [than other programs...
Scour also gained in popularity at schools, such as Yale, that had restricted traffic to and from Napster's servers on their network...
Because of the high price tag, both companies say they will take great precautions to avoid the type of lawsuit that have plagued Scour and Napster...