Scour, Inc. Tuesday announced the beta launch of Scour
Exchange (SX), a software application designed empowers users to search, download
and share all their digital entertainment files, including MP3s, video,
images, and photographs.
SX’s application makes it possible to search, download, and share digital
files, including MP3s, videos, and photographs. The interface, which
includes a menu with section icons, allows users to navigate within the
application to search and organize files, observe and control the download
progress, track real time activity of the SX online community and sort
through their favorite person’s shared files.
“No longer is Scour just a search engine, it’s now a digital entertainment
universe,” Dan Rodrigues, says president. “SX makes Scour the pioneer
in bringing digital entertainment into the home, allowing users to globally
search for multimedia content through a comprehensive network of people
sharing songs, movies, vacation photos and more.
“SX, combined with existing content and future technology, makes Scour the premier site to find, share
and enjoy entertainment online.”
By downloading the SX application, the user is immediately connected to the
SX community, and guided to a section called SX Now!, an embedded Web browser
that provides links to direct downloads of authorized music, video and image
content.
Note that word “authorized.” By whom? The copyright owner? You bet. Like the
controversial Napster, Scour leaves the “authorization” problem up to the
user, spelled out in its User Agreement:
“Scour respects copyright and other laws and expects SX and other scour users
to do the same. As a condition of this license, you agree that you will not
useSX or any other scour service to infringe the intellectual property or
other rights of others in any way. Scour will comply with all applicable
copyright and other laws, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (the
“DMCA”), to protect content owners’ works as such laws require…”
With this, the third major search-and-deploy download program to launch online (AOL’s had a short life just weeks
ago), expect the RIAA to come up with its own version to track the trackers.
