Aurous: the new nightmare of the music industry

The music streaming service "Aurous" launched last weekend is already talk of him and could well be the new nightmare of the music industry!

Some already call him Popcorn Time Music or Spotify pirate. Aurous The software is already creating controversy and three record labels the attack to justice ... they have not lost any time.

Aurous is already the enemy to be defeated in the music industry

The streaming service Aurous, launched in the night of Saturday and Sunday, just dropped a new bombshell and this service could shake the entire universe of music. It is positioned facing Deezer, Apple Music, Spotify, but mostly deal with record companies.

This software based on the Bittorrent protocol, run on 3 major platforms are: PC, Mac and GNU / Linux version 0.1 alpha. The advantage of this audio client is that it is as much a classical music player, a music sharing service in peer-to-peer. Users who tested it like it!

For now few features are offered, as it is an alpha version, it can, however, seeking to music on three networks (aurous, Mp3WithMe and most original, the Russian social network VKontakte). It can also read the local music if you tell it to your directory. Unlike its rivals, it does not list your history, queries, etc. Privacy is respected ... Like any good software peer to peer with aurous, it reads files from others, who can read yours in return, all in a fully transparent and anonymous.

"An economic model built on the large scale violation of intellectual property"

The Popcorn Time music streaming, aurous is already the target of the majors in the sector. Sony, Universal and Warner complain against the editor, and the labels are ready to take lashing out this new enemy. The reason is of course a violation of copyright. It will be difficult to blame him for the facts, since as indicated by its designer, aurous is software that draws music everywhere on the web of legal platforms, even YouTube! With the added good news from the users, since the pub no longer exists ... Google will enjoy!

With such a sulfurous concept aurous is cautioned by the RIAA (the American union of music publishing), which denounced "an economic model built on the large scale violation of intellectual property." The designer of the software may aurous $ 150,000 per song played.



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