Scour May Rise from the Dead
from the great-service-shame-about-the-lawsuits dept
Centerspan, the company that bought the rights to Scour after it filed for bankruptcy, has recently started looking for beta testers (which I received an email about a few days ago) for their new legal file sharing service. I have to admit that I loved Scour during its brief existence - even more than Napster (after all you could get both movies and music). However, I still don't think movie studios will buy into subscription based access. What I've never figured out is why no one has yet started a Napster-like service in China where copyright laws aren't really enforced (or some other none copyright friendly country)?
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