scour.com

As you may have heard Napster are in the process of a legal battle which may result in them being closed down. The site is not available as I write this review and as a big fan of the service Napster provided I am very upset. I wish them well in their battle against the greed and might of the music industry but thought like minded Napster-philes may be interested in this site. Scour.com is another internet based 'share' facility where you can exchange mp3 music files with other people. I must admit I am a very new user to this service and will be editing this review when I am more au-fait with ... more

Scour Exchange is a very similar program to the much publicised Napster. Basically it allows you to sahre files (not just music either) with other internet users. You login to scour exchanges and it allows you to search across the shared drives worldwide for the item you want. This system is also under attack from the music industry so it may well disappear like Napster is about to. Scour is fairly good and allows a number of search options so you can find what you want. Fle transfer speeds are very similar to napster and the quantity of available files is vast. the front end is a little iffy ... more

Scour.com allows you to search the Web for image, movie, audio files, but the main attraction to Scour.com for me is Scour Exchange. Scour Exchange is an application very much like Napster (if you're unfamiliar with Napster, Scour Exchange basically lets you share your files with others on the Scour network, and likewise you have access to everyone else's, obviously you can specify which files to share, if any, but if you choose not to share anything this does ruin the whole basis of the application). Then by using Scour's search engine you can specify file name & type, i.e. image, movie ... more

SO napster is going to get closed - well highly likely anyway so what next. Scour is a program not disimilar to Napster, which allows you todownload music files in the MP3 format a compressed format for you PC 1 min of music is approx. 1MB of space, this has sudunly become a craze to download music for free much to the annoyance of the music companies who say it is damaging sales. You have access to hundreds of thousands of songs which people have put on thier PC's and are sharing, from theme tunes to lastest chart music. It also allows you to download images and video which is somethiong ... more

Scour was set up to allow its users to share Audio, Video and Picture files, many people will be familure with such a concept with the Napster program being so succesful. Here is how Scour compares to Napster: 1) Scour allows you to share more than just MP3 files. Other types of audio files as well as video and pictures may be shared. This is particularly usefull for anyone searching pornography or music videos. 2) With far more people using Napster it has a much bigger library of files, however when Napster gets shut down its users will be looking to alternatives such as Scour to do their ... more