Other search engines such as Gnutella and Scour Exchange claim to be different from Napster in that they will prevent lawsuits from being brought against them. The following profiles may familiarize you with the different websites. Scour could be summed up as a search engine, which links users directly to the audio file they are looking for.
Users can even search their homepage for all the multi-media and movie files as well.
Furthermore, Scour has protection against lawsuits because of its alliance with record labels and motion picture companies. Right now, I still use Napster because of its simplicity. I doubt I would use Scour for anything other than MP3's. Although Scour Exchange is up and running with around seven to eight terabytes of songs, movies and images, it is still beta software. There exist bugs in the program, which still need to be worked out.