MP3Board.com Joins Bidders for Scour Assets

Online search engine MP3Board.com Inc. has joined the crowd of technology companies trying to grab the assets of the now-defunct firm Scour Inc. While MP3Board did not say how much it plans to bid, it did disclose in a court filing that it only wants Scour’s file-sharing technology, known as Scour Exchange. The Napster-like technology--at the heart of pending legal action--allowed consumers to copy and swap digitized versions of songs, movies, photographs and other multimedia files. On Friday, MP3Board requested an emergency hearing before a federal bankruptcy judge in Los Angeles on Nov. 21 to determine whether MP3Board can bid piecemeal on Scour’s assets, which also includes a multimedia search engine.