July 28 -- The hottest download on CNET's download.com
yesterday was the Scour Exchange. And why? Well with Napster
shutting down tonight at midnight, the clear and more legitimate
replacement is Scour Exchange. A few things make Scour different
from Napster, most important of which is solid engineering which
supports it. Last week it had an average of about 25,000 users
online, logging on right now there are about 60,000. Here are
the stats as I write this:
USERS ONLINE: 57,556
FILES SHARED: 3,572,342
August 10 -- Even though they are two totally different
applications, people all over the world use both America Online
and Napster. The numbers prove it. Each company has millions
of registered users. Now a new program called Aimster is being
described as, "the first Napster-like file sharing integrated
with AOL Instant Messaging."
With Aimster, users enjoy more
security and privacy when downloading and sharing files. That
is because Aimster has integrated with AOL Instant Messaging
capabilities and search requests are taken directly from AOL
Instant Messaging buddies. This allows users to know who they
are uploading to or downloading from.
September 28 -- Flipr (Future License of Intellectual Property
Registry) issued a press release today, reporting they are working
on creating a "legal" file sharing application. FLIPR
stated that they are working on building a collection of legitimate
files, they control and compensating copyright holders for the
use of these files through their service.
The file sharing application
with FLIPR is reported to have built features built in capabilities
to track intellectual properties of various file formats, such
as audio, video, pictures and text files. This would allow FLIPR
to accurately compensate a copyright holder for the use of their
copyright files through the service.
