Scour Gets Brought Into The Napster Mixup
According to this article, Scour, Inc is being sued by not only the music industry, but the movie industry as well. Scour lets people download music and movies (I’m assuming in QuickTime or VCD form), just like Napster spreads MP3s. Apparently, Scour’s president, Dan Rodrigues, is surprised. Lord knows why. If I were running a company based upon the trading of copywrited material, I wouldn’t be surprised to be sued.
Not that I think Napster or Scour should be sued, I just think they should have been a little smarter about trying to make a company out of their software. I mean, come on, if I had been the one to originally write Napster, I would not have thought it a good idea to try and start making money and seek funding to further my illegal software. If Scour and Napster were still just a couple of guys in a garage, the RIAA would not be all that interested, let alone would they try to sue.