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This article was published on Oct. 14, 2015 at 15:56.
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From the streets of London to the top of the table service gettonato most of the world: it took a few years Ed Sheeran to become an icon of the international music scene. Not enough popularity, to increase next Sunday, October 25 with the role of presenter of the MTV Ema, here is the record ratings for the song “Thinking Out Loud” Streaming has been downloaded 500 million times.
A goal never achieved before is difficult to match that Spotify celebrated confirming that users are 19 million subscribers who listen to the valuable trace, present in 38 million playlists, at least once every month. We talk, so to speak, a loyalist Spotify on four.
Those of Sheeran are indeed mind-boggling numbers in view of the digital entertainment industry, just consider the fact that his songs have been played streamed about 2.9 billion times, making him the second most listened to artist in music liquid behind Eminem. And it is certainly among the ones that are enriched thanks to the platform. The $ 0.007 Spotify recognizes artists for each reproduction apply to the only track to record something like $ 3.5 million.
Considering all traces of Sheeran downloaded from the platform you arrive, according to calculations of Music Business Worldwide, to a turnover of 20 million dollars. Moreover excel in the “hit” of twenty countries (the United Kingdom in the lead) is not for everyone.
The ax of the RIAA on aurous “is the new Grooveshark”
Some have likened to Napster but compared to the first version peer-to-peer platform for the exchange of music files is something different. Not a streaming service similar to Spotify, but for which vaguely resembles the interface and basic features (for more freely customizable by developers). By its nature of service of “sharing” in many have defined as the Popcorn Time Music: lets you play and listen to music files in various formats (including Torrent) available on the Net, but never creates a copy on your computer as it did.
The fact is that aurous, the new open platform landed recently on the Internet and available for Mac, Windows and Linux, it has the mission to make the music available for free whenever you want. And the slogan with which it was launched, “how you want to enjoy music for free”, is even more explicit about it.
How does aurous, which was the birthplace of the twenties Andrew Sampson, is so easily understood. Using it as a kind of search engine to find the sources where to find a song or album, ranging from platforms like YouTube, Spotify, Deezer and so on to other considered illegal, see the sites populated by content “torrent”. No hosting on their servers any files protected by copyright, the service should be protected from any legal action by the giants record.
In reality this is not so. Or at least the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has fallen on the warpath and mandate of three of the majors that is, namely Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, he has filed a lawsuit again to nip in the bud aurous.
The action of lawyers interested in the business model of the new platform, based on the logic “to make profits with piracy trampling the rights of creators of music.” Aurous as Grokster, Limewire or Grooveshark, then? The prosecution of the RIAA, which has sued the illegal services above as an example of instruments that “not operating under the necessary licenses”, but have not found unprepared Sampson.
According to him I am not his child to be guilty of the offense (because, we repeat, does not host the files to download and even the links with direct access to the files for streaming audio) as sources that indicates aurous to its users. The record industry does not seem to notice this, and the will to nip in the bud the platform is a clear message to anyone trying to develop a software that can “give away” music format liquid to anyone. On the other hand the community of developers of aurous relaunch saying that it will be closing the site to stop them. Because the software will continue to function smoothly once downloaded to your PC. Back to the ghost of the first Napster?
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