Scour will be shutting down it's revolutionary file sharing application Scour Exchange within the next two days.

While the news is sad and disappointing to a community demanding the the right and ability to share information, the decision to shut down Exchange was one which Scour had no choice but to make.

The company was granted the motion to close down the file sharing service by the court over seeing it's bankruptcy, and is Scours demonstration of a resolution to the litigation pending against the company from the RIAA and MPAA.

Scour will continue to take offers for the acquisition of the revolutionary file sharing service though Dec. 12, with Listen.com reportedly already offering $5 million dollars, and 1/2 a million shares in exchange for the company.

so now that Crapster costs money per month and Scour is closing its ports, where can we get .mp3's now? this sucks butt...

is there any P2P progs like nappy or scour?

ya know, now that i think about it, this sucks bad. RIAA couldent shut anyone down so they just BUY everyone out...fucked up..
money is so evil.

what's scour ¿?

is that like what you do to a greasy pot ¿?

Plenty of more ways to get mp3s: iMesh, Direct Connect, gnotella, Aimster, IRC, etc... Don't give up and let the RIAA/MPAA bastards win!!

is there another reliable p2p transfer system for videos? i thought gnotella had the capability but im not sure.

just chance to iMesh

sure you can get mp3s in other ways.... but files like movies and other files will be difficult to find. UNTIL someone else creates the next best P2P

Saw the writing on the wall, though, when they shut down their search engine here at DMusic.

What about IRC? It's always been pretty easy to find mp3s with a little work? Common people, don't be lazy! We were doing it that way before napster, scour and gnutella, etc.. blah

the corrs

RIAA can take their "keep artists rights" and shove it up their bloody ass. The mass will find alternatives to releasing and keeping "copyrights" apart of the new generation of artist arise.

music is free you dumbass's!!

RIAA can't win this war, free music will always find new ways

First it was "FREE LOVE" now it's "FREE MUSIC" wierd huh?

NEVER PAY FOR P2P!!!! YOU and I aren't going to pay a fee, for an unreliable connection, for an unreliable file. WE know how much junk is being passed around on Napster and Scour. I'M NOT PAYING FOR PARTIAL SONGS or LOUSY ENCODING. ARE YOU?

Tomorrow I bring zip disks to school.

this is really sad news for me today. scour was one of the easiest ways/programs to find the files i needed. how did scour become so bankcrupt? seems like all the good sharing apps are shutting down or changing their ways just to suit the record companies...!
man, enjoy napster AND scour as much as you can before they all completely go away!

[doobybrain]

good idea. better get all the songs we want before its all gone.

[doobybrain]

they aren't buying Scour out..

wow.. and boomer is a musician. heh

this is a sad day.

The sad thing is that there IS no other reliable source for videos.

Gnutella sucks.
iMesh sucks.
Napster is only for audio.

God help us.

`Matt

In this battle that is clearly not over, new warriors will surely arise from the dust of the fallen... erm... I mean, somebody will make another prog, just wait.

Go to imesh.com and get that

don't be stupid .. you want mp3s ... try these sites : ) !

www.musicworld.nu
www.newmusic2k.com
mp3wma.spydar.com
www.salon.cn

Just pop an http in front of all of those.

if you want more just ask haha : )

bye

Seth stopped ripping videos? Heh.

Try songspy. Problems with it if you are behind a firewall that they say they are fixing but they vow never to charge there users.........

Bah. Scour was the only good P2P application available in my opinion, and now it's gone. While I never actually used it for MP3s (I use FTPs for that, something the RIAA will never stop) it was great for porn and music videos. Oh well, I guess a girlfriend and *gasp* M2 (MTV2) is the only feasible alternative to Scour Exchange now.

Shutting down? Damn...

One word: LAME.

Use one of the free Napster servers - I use bitchx.dimension6.com

You definately don't have to pay to use those sorts of ones, and you can usually find the MP3s you want.

Also, use inapnow.com to find MP3s from other servers.

This is another blow to everyone.The RIAA and MPAA are fools. Too many lawyers and too much greed. We will never stand for all this crap. I am not going to buy any CDs or tapes until they get it. I hope everyone else follows suit.

If you want to keep up-to-date on alternatives to Napster, Scour & Co.:

http://www.infoanarchy.org

One of the best alternative feature-wise is Filetopia (its userbase is relatively small):

http://www.filetopia.com

And for MP3s, Songspy is quite powerful:

http://www.songspy.com

If you like Napster, get Napigator:

http://www.napigator.com

It allows you to connect to OpenNap servers where any file type can be shared (and which are not concerned by any changes in Napster's business model).

A good alternative to the Windows Napster client is FileNavigator:

http://filenavigator.com

But again, if there's this exciting new file sharing tool you should know about it, you'll read it here:

http://www.infoanarchy.org

yes, SongSpy is very good. thats the other alternative im turning to.

if it was only quicker to load and had a larger user base...then it'd be even better!
[doobybrain]

although both P2P applications and websites have many mp3s to choose from, the thing that draws me towards P2P sharing apps is the ability to listen to the files while they are being downloaded. this way, i can tell if the file has something wrong with it before i get the whole thing (and waste all my time).

[doobybrain]

yes there is and gnotella still works, you can get it from gnotella.com. there will always be a way to share our files with other people. where one goes down 5 more will pop up.

what happened to that rumor that listen.com was going to purchase scour? did any more biddings for scour happen after that?

[doobybrain]

I have a feeling its uzer base will be expanding a bit in the coming dayz.

no way, Jose. The record company fat asses who don't do anything but TAKE artists money away from them can kiss my lilly white ass first. Like I really wanna pay to get lousy half assed files from THEM? yeah, right. duh.

I wonder what the chances of Scour source code being released on the web are...

The online community will adapt. People can use gnutella and gnutella clones to transfer mp3s and other files. However, it is sad how the RIAA could not come up with a free commercially funded service. The RIAA will never win against gnutella. See you on gnutella or newtella.

If you want to use Napster, get an old version and login to a user run server with Napigator.

definitely, I used to use IRC 100% before a college friend turned me on to napster v 2.0. And besides, Napster is just an IRC client with the DCC stressed instead of the chat (the cmd line in the startup window has always done IRC things, like /msg and /whois)... so it won't kill anybody to go back to IRC... It'll just keep the morons out of the mp3 biz, like back in the day.

Umm hm, and with the exchange shut off, exactly what is there left to Scour worth buying?

Filetopia isn't bad, and neither is the reborn CuteMx, just tiny user bases....

What if we all got a pot going and made a deviant_art ftp. We could have videos mp3s movies and even archive the rest of deviants downloads...
just a thought.

MyNapster is pretty cool and has all the features of Scour

***What the hell????????????????????????SCOUR RULES!!! i need more file sharing proggrams.....got any email me at


Jon8korn@yahoo.com

I talked to some of my college friends, and it seems like most people are choosing to move to iMesh over some of the other choices out there. Better download it quick -- you know CNET is gonna get hammered w/ requests after Scour shuts down on Thursday.

man this sucks! is there any other file sharing program on the net that i can move to? this program was rad...

man, you all act like you never traded files before nap/scour (maybe you didn't?) whatever, if all else fails, just go to irc, or *scour* the web and ftp sites yourself!

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Scour was the best of the file-sharing progs out there! Those RIAA BASTARDS!!!

The only other alternative to Scour is Cute MX which is back online after being off for a few months. You can transfer the same items with it as with Scour and it can be downloaded at cutemx.com

Since Scour Exchange is folding, what is the next best site to download MPEG music videos? Please don't suggest Napster... Thx

Dude there has to be another way to get videos! Would renaming file extensions to "mp3", downloading, then changing back to mpg.. etc work? If so then you could use some sort of code and use napster right?

Play Pokemon!

like everything else good in life.some nolife greedy sb only goal is make money from the only few free things left that make life worth living. Good thing that no matter how many millions they make their like still sucks.

now there's an educated response if i ever saw one.

as if he's the only source of free video's...

i'm getting sick and tired of the RIAA charging
way to much for cd's i had to pay 28 dollars
for a cd that i listened to twice. this isnt an issue
of copyright infringment it's a fight against cd prices being severly overpriced! the riaa can continue to sue as many sites as they can once they shut down scour there will be 12 sites up and running that are ezactly like scour that dosn't mean they'll be any better though. i think the riaa should just chill, there still getting billons of dollars from consumers

This shit sucks!!!

imesh.. ... imesh.com

rofl!

i fuck cows, goats, men, shit, horses, mothers, sons, and daughters. soon i'll be fucking myself after i fuck RIAA. Ya know what RIAA stands for? RIGHT IN ANAL AREA. Thats right. I'll stick it so far up their nose will bleed. fuckin shit.

imesh doesn't have near the amount of hits that scour does. Of course, there are 2/3 less users on imesh than on scour exchange right now. Hopefully that'll change, but likely at the cost of their server reliability. And what's that mess with "availability"? I sure will miss the ping times, and speed of the hosts being displayed!

Well I just finished reading all the comments and i have one thing to say. This is hella jacked! I thought scour was the best program for sharing mp3 next to napster. I was using scour when there were 5,000+ users, now there are 150,000+ users. But one thing is for sure, the fuckin RIAA is not gonna win this shit. We won't let them. Let the free data ring. Pranil (Union City, Ca)

hotline

This sucks ass bigtime. Napster sucked because it quit right in the middle of a download and now those commie RIAA bastards are at it again. Im so pissed I gotta go somewhere else and vent some steam.

hey, where is the problem - just dont buy any music - soon after the community demonstrated their power - i have to find a compromize. The companies will realize soon, that they can`t go without scour , napster or such programs. Dont buy it - just look for other channels. They may have the money, but if you dont buy media, they`ll loose it.

try imesh

I'm gonna miss getting all those home made porn movie clips.*sigh* i didn't realize the RIAA/MPAA had an interest in protecting copyrights for those, they are made by us folks anyway... hey best find for me is a file called "teen home video.mpg" thanks scour!

I've never had any problems with the Dimension6 servers. I agree, the other servers suck but bitchx works ALL the time, and is about 5% quicker than the normal Nap servers.

Is there anyone out there who wants to buy Scour? C'mon, I depend on that thing for porno!

BTW - Napster (the client) checks the files before it starts serving them. If it's not really an MP3, it'll know. That's also why earlier versions of Macster didn't work properly - it had very specific detection code.

Sorry, it doesn't work. (hmm... that sentence could be used to talk about various different things, like Mac Napster, Windows Media Player, Windows ME, SCSI Probe on an iMac, etc...)

Check out filetopia. Lots of DC trading/sharing going on there. It is like Napster style file sharing (but for all file types), and IRC style chat, and everything is encrypted using strong crypto and public keys. Very nicely made. You can even run a ratio FTP-like server so people upload etc. It's cool, check it out at http://www.filetopia.com
The more people who use it, the cooler it will be.

I'm a musician/audiophile...sure I can understand why they're making a big fuss about copyrights, but why are CD's still overpriced, I mean, com' on, tapes have dropped rapidly in price...do the same for CD's (I'm happy to pay $NZ5.00 a CD, but not $NZ2.00 per download). And get rid of all those over-paid exec's - they're part of the problem!

I blame the pop industry!!

I reckon if you create a prog that lets you share _any_ type of file _freely_ (like FTP), you should be able to get around the trigger-happy RIAA - I don't think they'd have a case if the prog wasn't aimed at distributing music/video.

That'll be my mission after I finish this encryption prog!

if u really want the riaa to not win buy 1 cd to prove to them that people are still buying cd's cause if cd sales dont go down the record labels have no case and also stay online support online sharing i think if we stand up for are rights they will lose there case. they will never be able to stop mp3 sharing, so why dont they embrace it !

Scour shut down at 5 AM PST this morning..

ok... they're closed.... everyone to cuteMX... or iMesh... both allow all file sharing

i'l be hangin out on cuteMX (www.cuteMX.com) they've got a decent chat program buit into the app as well

Ya know what really sucks. I've known about Scour for awhile now and have been waiting for my DSL modem. After being jerked around by BellSouth for about 2 months I finally got it in yesterday and now this happens. Kind of like finding that perfect babe and finding out she's married

on second thought... www.filetopia.com is much better than cuteMX... i found a new home til scour comes back

Why are you people complaining about paying? Napster's going to charge $4/month. If you can't afford that, how the hell did you get your computer? Oh, Mom and Dad. Get a job.

another example of everyone being treated like kids and told what they can and can't play with. We get told what is proper to eat, drink, wear and everything else and we go along like mindless idiots everyday doing what they want. We fought in the 60's and got shot. We will not get anywhere nor any type of freedom unless we mass together and fight instead of leaving it to "everyone else" Write emails and help the fight for internet freedom. This shit has got to stop.

Napster isn't capable of trading videos. Why would anyone suggest it for that?

A truly sad day indeed.

~Heidi

There are WAY to many anonymous posters on this article. Go ahead a create a user name already! You may win some prizes in the process.

~Heidi

I totally agree

You're not the only one with the problem. However I don't get the BSOD, it just crashes, on both my ME and 2k installs

There was a program called Wrapster that basically "zipped" any (video, programs, etc.) file as a .mp3 and could be shared through Napster. Haven't heard much about that program anymore.

Yes, Napster will charge. But would you pay the $4.95 (or whatever) to get incomplete, crappy encoded songs? I know damn well I won't. Screw that idea.

This is so wrong! But Free music will find a way, I have faith. -Anna Hemp

Yes there is. Funny how the anonymous posters are the ones that use the colorful metaphors too..

BTW...I never won anything when I registered...hint, hint..hehehe

Ok now I am pissed. I don't even get MP3's but trade all kinds of other files. This really sucks big ass!

what about idrive? can they touch that? It is for personal storage space right?

what choo taln bout willis!
damn im gonna miss checkn out hotlists n seein all the freak files sum poor saps have, those losers who finally put da nail n Scours coffin shud be slapped around like a foster child Fack!!
carry on ;o)~

I tried GotchaPort and think it will work. You can stream MP3s and other files to each other. Pretty cool. It just came out in Beta, but it's got the goods. It's at GotchaPort.com

Rapp

How typical,the movie/music industry forces scour to close and why?Because its free they cant milk another few billion out of the peoples pockets!I feel they make enough from movie,video,dvd, and record sales--all at the expense of artistic expression--If mozart were alive and composing he would not be carried by any record labels cause of the marketability of his work towards the "target" audience,as well as poe,shakespeare to name a few! they have stopped nothing but a user friendly media exchange!media will always be exchanged on the web and they know it,they have just taken it away from the average citizen!The exchange of media will continue and the know it--except for the tax paying,hard-working people of the world(the ones that put stars in their million dollar homes and mettalica into selfish confomists)--I am an american,excercising my freedom of speech

RIAA execs can schooch down n kiss my (_I_)!its gotta be their upbringing
ya see what happens when geeks n suits get involved whos parents get a divorce n wonder if they r still brother and sister!!
Peace ^kaos ;o)~

i gest we can make the changes, we need a program to change a simple part off the hd to a ftp like, and create a way to search all this ftp sites into the web ,like a database to find music,film and midia, not in one computer, but in all community computers, a gest that is the solution! the bad guys cann't power down all the community!

Gnotella

http://gnotella.nerdherd.net/index_main.html

Gnutella
http://www.surfacelayer.nu/gnuworld/basic.shtml

G O T C H A P O R T
http://www.gotchaport.com

G O T C H A P O R T

Awsome file borrowing platform
Streaming beats downloading!!

http://www.gotchaport.com

I just didn't want someone to put Napster in when they obviously don't have that capability.

What are the people in the music business complaining about? Why aren't they content to live in a world where a website will allow just one user to buy just one copy of each CD released to share with the rest of the world?

Try Lanster. www.cs.colostate.edu/~martin

It shares mp3 and video. And it streams audio. Pretty cool.

hey people who are looking for a reliable source to obtain movies Cute MX is back better than ever needing more users

i think this hole ordeal of scour shutting down it is not right i think it should stay open to the web because it is a way to comunicat and shair file with one another and it is a good way for beginner record lables to be herd to find out if they will makje it in the music bizz i think it should remain oppen

COME ON everybody,lets get together on this.If we all just donate one joint each to the members of the RIAA, perhaps these greedy pricks will get high, giggle & laugh ,kill some brain cells and forget what they were doing.Hey, It could happen!

Thank You Scour.

Jason.

Scour Exchange was a better file-transfer client than Napster. It rocked, and will be missed.

Basically, I think it's lame how everybody (including me) takes for granted the fact that companies like MP3.com, Napster, and Scour really have gone to hell and back for their users. And the users rarely give anything back in return except for bitching and moaning. MP3.com has paied out hundreds of millions of dollars to keep it's my.mp3.com service going. Napster has done the same thing to keep it's service up. And now everybody is complaining because Scour is going under? What do you expect when your facing a $250 billion lawsuit??

I'm guilty of this too, so I'm not accusing, I'm observing. I think the community of people supporting free MP3's have done a poor job in supporting those companies that provide it.

Z.

ya this sux balls

The last guy got the name wrong...it is gnutella with a u. It is a really good program that has an easy to use interface. Make sure you follow the directions to connect to other computers. I believe gnutellahosts.com is the connection name you need to use when trying to connect to other computers.

This sucks. I still need the first half to Meet the Parents. I hate the SUITS!!

I'm a little confused about the whole damn thing. Are we now suppose to pay a fee to use scour or napster? Or is it completley shut down. Also do you know anywhere else I can get mp3's without a fee?

It's weird how some schmucks speak out of their ass, think moron. music ain't free... musician is a job like so many others

Well, although it seems hopless, things will straighten out. In a popular opinion the RIAA it self should be split, being a monoply of music. even though scour is shutting down there are other programs that allow peer to peer sharing of files, and when they wipe those out by exhausting their funds via law suits, there will be people like me and my associats that will keep freedom alive and flourishing.

Signed,

United Federation Of Hackers(UFH)

feel free to email me

Right on just dl the other progs and put all the old files form napster and scour into the new progs folder. So every one will have the same files to share as they did with napster and scour, while useing gnutella or any other sharing program.

ScourExchange shut down totally. Napster isn't shutting down, but will start charging for it's services. Read some of the past articles here on dmusic to learn more about what's going on.

As far as other programs, there are tons, including iMesh & CuteMX. Go to the software page here on dmusic and look for those programs

I just found out that others running ME and 2k are having problems with iMesh, so it's the software (whew!). I might revert my ME partition back to 98 since ME sucks big ones!

the best alternative I have found is Audio Galaxy. Its fast and ultra reliable don't mess with imesh it sucks

www.filetopia.com is like the last decent file sharing thing around!! go there its basically the same as scour

ftp://64.229.76.196:7001

Anime Exchange... Keep the free exchange of foreign animation alive =)

Click here ( ftp://Anonymous:_@64.229.76.196:7001 ) for the Anime Exchange FTP... Keep the free exchange of foreign animation alive. =)

Fuck the RIAA. Those bastards are all about money. Fuck them and all the recording artists who just want more fucking money. For once they should give a shit about there fans. Fuck the corporate world.

Wow, Filetopia is actually pretty nice. Of course it doesn't come up with 1000s of results for common search queries but it needs a userbase. I'd recommend you guys check it out. (www.filetopia.com)

This is the worst news I have heard yet regarding the internet and the right to share community information. Unfortunatley, I just learned of the Scour exchange on Nov. 13, and I have hardly gotten time to endulge in it's services. This was the best website known to man. I couldn't belive you could actually download so many video clips. Scour is the best! I really hope things get cleared up an back online.

This sucks Aimster won't work casue you guys shut down i say we kill everyone who is opposed to the idea of Scour Napster and all that stuff

good point, Z... I must agree in saying that we all take it for granted what we have here, though Im not sure how or what to do to show our support, or even that it would make a difference.

filetopia does look good
gotta say

Sad. Very sad. Scour and Napster made it easy. (I still haven't gotten kicked off Napster or gotten a bill, but then ...)

Still, there are always ways where there is Will. C'mon, folks, get some friends ... and maybe a CD burner ... Those RIAA bastichs don't have to win just because we're so buttlazy.

Even ICQ can be a file-sharing device. A friend with a really sucky connection and I set our comps up many nights with a set of files to transfer. Wake up and, boda boom ... new music for the day!

Actually, that's how I got the new version of Photoshop. Just find someone who has what you want (again, ICQ or AIM, both are pretty decent for AOL progs) and set an exchange up.

As a postscript ... it's really sad that MP3.com keeps getting stuck with the brunt of disputes. I have a great deal of respect for them due to their efforts to create a forum for small bands to advertise with music. IMHO, they should just shut down MyMP3 and stick with the little users. (So most of the rock sucks ... the indep techno and new age artists are actually more preferable, again IMHO, than the Big Girls and Boys.)

Does anyone know a good client to use if i'm behind a proxy...scour worked well. i tried others, but i cant enter the proxy address and port since the server uses an automatic configuration script.

Yeah that one rocked! lol Dancin all over the place!

A person would think that after all the bad publicity that the RIAA has gone through that they would change thier ways. I can understand the MPAA wanted to stop movies bieng traded, because they cost millions upon millions of dollars to make. The RIAA on the other hand, all they do is take something that is already made, mass produce it, and sell it at an outragous price. How much does a blank CD-R cost? 30 cents? give or take a little...so why do they charge 15 bucks a cd? the RIAA is gonna loose either way, so the might as well stop wasting thier money hiring intimidating lawyers who try to scare everyone into thinking that the RIAA is doing whats right. my two cents

Filetopia

it's time for a music revolution........


-bach

Try www.hotlinehq.com or hotline central.com its not p2p but its cool and free usually u gotta do some banner crap or upload

this sucks soo much. i am very pissed off. scour was the shit. everyone knew that. damnitt!!!!!

true to that.

HOtline it aint p2p but it is free just gotta do some banner shit or upload ACCH but you can get movies music apps games you can get ANYTHING but it wont be pain less

i wont pay even if it was that cheap (cheap? ha!). its a hassle and i dont want to even bother.

[doobybrain]

This really sux. Napster charges, Scour shuts down, what the fuck is this. Now the only thing left is CuteMX. Which sux becuase it only has like 5,000 users. If more people use CuteMX, than it is the next best Mp3 Exchange.

to say i'm fuckin pissed off would be an understatement. scour was the best program that ever came along. so now instead of downloading music, and movies any time, i may actually have to start doin my shitty homework. THIS SUCKS...BRING BACK SCOUR. DO IT FOR THE GOOD OF COLLEGE KIDS EVERYWHERE

i agree

Cute Mx is just like Scour if not better,. I reccomend it over expensive Napster, and shutdown Scour, although shutdown Scour was pretty good.

It down sound like much (4.00 a month) but add it up for 1 year that's nearly $50!!! Just for songs that aren't full songs or sound like shit!
Think about it.

(Yes, I am posting anon)

I can't believe the number of people sitting around bitching because they can't be spoonfed data.

Just admit that you are stealing and get over it -- stop trying to sound so righteous.

On the other hand, there are plenty of good reasons to have a Napster/Scour like application which can be used to share stuff in the PD or non-copyrighted, or to share stuff that doesn't break any other laws of the land. But the easy answer is to make it up to the user to make sure they are being legit (oh, did I sound Libertarian again?)

One of the biggest technical hurdles in this discussion is finding a way for all the 'servers' to talk to each other. This has been done in the past by having a single point of reference -- a 'directory server' if you will.

Another method of providing access between all the servers is to provide a common network as opposed to just a common directory server. IRC does this already.

Just have an app that dials up a chan on an IRC network (take yer pick) and then start advertising itself. The apps 'see' each other and exchange source IP info for direct-connections. Content of the app-servers can be queried using that channel and all available app-servers can respond directly to the querier.

Of course, this would be a lot easier if ISP's would actually start routing multicast around instead of tunneling via MBone.

Quidam@mindless.com
(Ha! Not so anon!)

I can't install Napster due to the same problem (Windows 98/Athlon system). It appears to be a memory conflict because I get a general protection fault right after submitting my personal info during the installation. So Napster is useless to me. iMesh works fine though.

i think cutemx is better.

cutemx is good, just needs more users

Don't we live in a democracy ?
MP3 users total millions !! there is just one RIAA, and not millions of music artists.

shouldnt the majority of people get to decide if they can download mp3z ? why let a bunch of suits at the RIAA control everything !?!?!?

Try songspy atwww.songspy.com
It is very napster-like but has cooler interface

IMESH isn't as great as these peoples think it is,. If I were you I would use CuteMX.
Just like Scour just needs more users.

CuteMx the best. Except for Scour, but...

cutemx.com has cutemx its best next to scour

this is stupid because no matter waht the record or movie companies do, another site or program will replace the last one. This is EXACTLY what happened when sony released the VCR, the MPAA tried to stop the vcr from being sold, now it turns out that the vcr has made the MPAA even richer. For every site that they close, another (or more) will open.

Piss off the record labels really bad by publicly releasing your source code.

i put all the files i had from scour to cutemx if everyone does the same cutemx grows and its the next scour

well what is this world coming to when we can't get what we want in the world of music, movies, and images over the internet. this sucks ass. why can't we the people get a right to choose what we want. we're forced to pay outragious prices for almost everthing. and when we get a break such as scour and napster. someone decides they don't like it and trys to put a stop to it. well myself along as the millions of users will have to find another source of our MP3s. the hell with the movie and music industry. with the internet anythings possible

ehh for: premise,
buy cd's don't be cheap. If you like the band(s), then you'll have no problem by supporting them by BUYING (not stealing!) their music. If you want mp3's, then you buy the cd, rip it and p00f there you go, you have mp3's. When you download mp3's and let others whore it from you, then technically speaking, they are loosing money. The same goes for other software, games, apps and what not. Sure, if you check my pc you will find like a gig and a half of mp3s, but all the full (cd) albulms that are in there I own, and the others I got from mp3.com (new startup bands like a4z, a good friend of mine).

Needless to say, I am very sad that scour is shutting down. I thought that, scour was the greatest. Hotline is ok..but half the time people are like "This is My T-3, connect to 24.x.x.x" HAH yea right! ANd when you ping them you get like 120-200ms. That = bs! Since I work for an ISP, I should know! There will be other little programs out there that allow you to share files, and eventually they will get shut down. I think Hotline has the right idea with putting up disclaimers and what not, that way they aren't tied down with the activity's of the users of its program. Nifty huh? Will this end? Probably not; And eventually, people will start cracking down on individuals FTP's (esp those with static IP's!). Good luck all you vultures out there!
-haxin

Do not use gnutella, it has a very crappy interface and slows down your connection to search for songs - I have cable and it goes to 0.02k while I am scanning 300 people for music. Also if anyone could tell me a good program to use to dl movies that would be great, Thanks

There is a new, not really new but beta 2 of CUTE MX (media exchange) share mp3's, music videos, pictures, and programs. I got Tony Hawks Pro Skater demo from it. Probably some full version games too (up to you . Well you can get it at http://www.cutemx.com

get cute mx http://www.cutemx.com
or get imesh
http://www.imesh.com
both are better than napster and scour and easy too.

What some (if not all) of you fail to realize is that, making music, making cd's costs money. If YOU were in a band with a tight budget, and or you liked to spend 'freely' you'll want the maximum amount of cash possible. You have to pay for equipment, tours, hotels, food, and a number of other things, and heh shit that doens't come cheap!

Phylum (message at bottom of page) hey, music costs too much anyways. Sure i download lots of music from my favorite artists but i always buy merchandise. And what the hell, music stores suck, they never have any punk band shirts.

YOU my friend..are totally RIGHT! I agree 1982695% with what you are saying + you know your stuff! ;Þ Either way you look at it, its stealing (when handing out copyrighted software to others who do NOT have a license for it, or who did NOT 'appropriately pay' for that piece of software (apprropriately pay meaning you went to the company, bought a copy, or did something totally legit for that; I'm not talking about giving someone CuteFTP4.0+Crack.rar in exchange for RealPlayerPlusG2GOLD+crk.zip)

Quidam, aren't they starting to crack down on IRC as well? I know that on EFNet they are cracking down HARD on the [D]DoS attacks on the servers (and some individuals) and the sharing of pirated software and what not. Eventually, EFNet MIGHT become another DALNet, Undernet or some other totally random network *yech* With a monitor bot in pratically every room, looking for dcc/xdcc/ctcp advertisements & requests. I hope not! EFNet has to be the most hated and feared network out of them all. Will we ever get to a point where pirated software will have to be done face-to-face? or by snail mail? Or will we come to a point where companys won't have to worry about 1874 hours of code going down the drain for the cost of a CDR?

I work for an ISP, and our connection is the greatest, and yes 87% of us here download movies to pass the time while we are here, and then we delete them. Mp3's the same. I mean COME ON! HOW DOES THAT LOOK! We should be setting the example! So, we had to get rid of all the unauthorized software, games, music on the system. Sure, that was anoying, but heck they could have been asses and just blocked all access out from the PIX! And just allow email to go in and out no bigger than 300k, right? Its about that time for me to 'get back to work' ;Þ

Drop me a line Quidam so we can bump heads

haxin@haxin.net

Where am I gonna get my porn?

I am really pissed at the RIAA and the MPAA. Don't they have anything better to do than fucking the file exchange community?

We should stand up for ourselves. Stop the RIAA. Stop the MPAA. Why is the government bitching over Microsoft and not even going near these monopolies in the RIAA/MPAA? Your government at work for you.

They may have won the battle, but there is absolutely no way they are ever going to win the war. Bar none. For every 1 file swapping service that is shut down, 3 more will open in its place.

Here's my suggestion: Download EVERY exchange program you can find, configure them all to share out of one directory, and run them all. Put all of them in your StartUp folder.

I'll see you on a swap service.

-iamdoctorevil (dr.-evil@mad.scientist.com)

Danm them

I vote for Haotline as well(bigredh.com)

Slim to none? lol

Some excellent points indeed.

-X-

look for a company called Edge City...they're working with some of music's biggest names to bring a whole new way to get mp3's, live concert footage, and more...check out edgecityonline.com in a few weeks when they make their announcement to the world.

This is MaN_a_La_MoNcHa
I have read through this entire page (up to the point of my enrtry) and I think it a full load pile of crap that scour was dismembered.

I also thinks that its wonderful that this mere comment page has been the exchange of all the "alternative to scour... I have taken the liberty of saying they all at once;


imesh, direct connect, gnotella, aimster, music world, newmusic2k, salon, mp3wma.spydar, songspy, mtv2, filetopia, napigator, newtella, cutemx, my napster, hotline demension6, bitchx, idrive, gotchaport, anime exchange and MIRC

these are our choices... I acually saw this comming. It was only a matter of time before someone saw SCOUR, and killed it.... and I fear that ALL we have taken for granted will be taken from us... perhaps even ICQ will follow in the footsteps of napster and start charging... Well the "Big Fish" may have won this time... this time... but they can't stop the community (us)
so I say we just start an innocent chat-room and use it as a (much less convieniant) way to find "rich media" how we download it will be up to us

eveny though I only used SCOUR for movies, I think it was wrong of us to think that we could get bootlegged movies and other Illigals without others taking notice/action

MaN_a_La_MoNcHa@hotmail.com

hell ya, im with you.

Scour was nice. I want to find another program that does the same thing, but does it just as good...iMesh sucks... anyway, those are my two cents.

power to the -x- factor!
=)

This is bullshit fuck those Riaa bastards. Damn the dont let the people do anything these days. I feel really bad for all the ppl that have had scour taken away from them, I FEEL YOUR PAIN!!!!!

Hey man, we're the community. It's the RIAA that's the facists. They're trying to tell us what to pay for some crappy cd's. The commie world of music traders lives on!

Other than Hotline, Carracho, ICQ, IRC, and AIM has anybody developed a decent filesharing program that will run on macs. Everything else is in windows beta

this sucks ass!

now everyone who is doing mp3 sharing using irc, or any other type of p2p, will be labeled as pirates... wait... people have been doing that ever since RIAA's bitchin' and still MUSIC SALES HAVE BEEN UP because of the large distribution of people's music!

fuck you

napster doesn't cost $$?

you want to be able to search tons of napster servers for mp3s or wrapster files go to dealer.herbsters.com this will be up even when napigator works no more.

WELCOME TO HERBSTERS

Aduhh! Duhh duh duh? DUH! but duhhhhhhh duh duh duh! errr woop poop scoop and yall just some fruits. thank you and goodnight

you said poop

Shiznit nigz

Wow - this show of support for Scour is great, at least the creators of the program will know that the community had love from what they were doing till the day they were forced offline.

This is only the beginning...

P2P Herb sharing!? How the hell do I sign up, this is the most wonderful thing I have ever heard of..

interesting hostname there sir

I am only posting here because -X- is a dumb shit and he wanted me to.

No, I am not a follower. I just need a break from 7 hours of Perl. Save me....

-----
splat

You know you love me - you came here and posted now didn't you? - heh

Perl = Bad
PHP = Good

This is LoneGunman, giving a shoutout to the people over at #Dmusic, especially X, you m0m0... Anyhow, if you're looking for a P2P program that's going to actually be around for awhile, head over to www.neo-modus.com and d/l THAT; Have fun, and happy hunting... =) [So long to Scour, another one bytes the dust. =]

Tin Tin Out

try cdyours.com, pretty cool.....

That whole 1st paragraph is so insightlessly incorrect, it makes me sick. Thoughts like this make me sick.

No arguments here. _I_ certainly haven't failed ta realize it.

lol, this is funny. TWO words andja can't get'em both right.

Thank you

62 billion responses

wow

dat's gotta be a record or somting

Lot's of people uploading their files to GotchaPort. It's new at gotchaport.com

Good program

Rapp

62 billion responses to what?

-X-

Mm, I've been noticin' a decline in hits lately, though. :/

alright listen up. everyone knows that all scour was good for is PORN! mp3s can be found anywhere but you can only find porn on scour.

If u want PORN FOR FREE, the next best thing, in my opinion, is cutemx. Get it at http://www.cutemx.com

Happy Hunting

Man ... You know how we can get back at the freaking RIAA ... well This is the time to create something that does not allow anything that belongs to "copyrighted" music or atleast promotes music that was intended to be shared .. There are plenty of respected artists that respect what happended when napster blew up.. well Think of it like this some small community starts up we all support it and everntually it becomes big and respected and those bastards will feel that shit

U don't have to sign up just enter a song title and search one of the servers

I've been uploading my files to GotchaPort. Great free program at gotchaport.com has IM and lot's more, all in one app.

Rapp

Try IMesh.

I too have a feeling that a lot of other file sharing applications and websites that offer music will see their numbers rising.

~Heidi

this article

duh

This article should be forever remembered in P2P history as a caputured moment in time..


-X-

he he I'm bringin this back form the grave!!!! I do miss scour thou!!

wow cool thread!