Word: scours
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Zittrain points out, though, that the courts never decided against Scour, which still might have won its case on the grounds that its software has substantial uses that do not involve copyright infringement...
...Scour had been working on deals with movie studios and music websites to develop non-infringing uses for its search engine and exchange. For example, it recently launched a promotion with Dimension Films to offer a downloadable trailer for Scary Movie...
...Napster has, in my view, about a 40 percent chance of prevailing on this issue in the appeal currently pending before the 9th Circuit," writes Harvard Professor of Law William W. Fisher in an e-mail message. "Scour believed that it could point to an even more extensive list of legitimate uses of its technology...
...example, while a song in MP3 format can be downloaded in less than a minute on Napster on a high-speed network, a full-length movie would take hours to download on Scour Exchange, even with an network as fast as Harvard's. For users with lower network bandwidth, the download times are slower...
...Free peer-to-peer systems (e.g. Gnutella and Freenet) are multiplying and becoming more user-friendly," writes Fisher, who is also a member of the Berkman Center. "If a chastened Scour began charging for its services (as Napster/Bertlemann suggests it will), then many of its 7 million users would likely flee to free alternatives...