would they be cultural industries found a new nightmare? After PopCorn Time software, became ultra-popular to watch pirated movies, here aurous, its equivalent for music.
This small program takes the form of a platform for streaming, like Spotify or Deezer, where it is possible to listen to unlimited tons of pieces, but also to create playlits. The entire presentation is neat, with song title and album, artist, cover, duration, etc. It is even possible to import playlists from Spotify or Pandora. Except that the distinction of aurous is to be totally illegal.
Specifically, this free software recovers music on download networks peer-to-peer (or P2P) to launch the lesser click. If the user has the sensation of being face to a streaming service, the platform actually downloading the song well to start listening.
This software allows access to works without the consent of their assigns. It’s illegal, “said to” Obs “Pauline Blassel, general secretary of the Hadopi authority to fight against piracy.
Illegal, PopCorn Time wants indestructible
The use is to risk punishment
Asked by “Obs” aurous the co-creator Andrew Sampson defends his software: “aurous is primarily a media player for listening to music on his computer and in this case it is legal.” The Developer concedes.
It can manage its content [but also] to grow your library “
Andrew Sampson argues that downloads peer-to-peer pirated songs are “an option”, before praising his “search engine that lets you search for songs on a plethora of site networks (VKontakte, SoundCloud, YouTube, Pandora, Spotify …) [to ] import your playlists “.
However aurous risk of being perceived as a software for, with great ease, download and listen to music illegally. This is also advanced that the movie industry on PopCorn Time.
This is not the software itself is illegal, is the fact that access to works made available without the consent of the rights holders, “said Pauline Blassel.
In this sense, aurous has not negotiated any broadcast agreement with record companies. Just the pieces will accompanied by an internet address to download. – legally this time
Those who nevertheless choose to use the software, especially its function as peer-to-peer to listen to songs they have not, could then fall into the nets of Hadopi. Illegal P2P exchanges are in fact monitored and punished by the authority, as the graduated response principle (a sanction falls after three recurrences).
Developed in Miami, aurous will be officially launched on October 10th. A version for smartphones (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) “will follow soon after,” said Sampson Andew.
Still, it will be difficult for industrial music to remove aurous. Indeed, the software adopts as PopCorn Time, a fully decentralized architecture, making it almost impossible its “closed” by entering a server.
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