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Aurous offers to give up the fight, but the RIAA fights on

Aurous offers to give up the fight, but the RIAA fights on

While Aurous could prove to be the shortest chapter in the weighty tome documenting the record industry's fight against online piracy, it will still be a pretty eventful section of the story.

As previously reported, the Recording Industry Association Of America forced the maker of Aurous – a streaming app that pulls in and plays music content from various sources online, though mainly unlicensed sources to date – to stop distributing his player almost as soon as the alpha version of it was put live. The RIAA secured a temporary injunction against Aurous and its developer Andrew Sampson after accusing the new app of existing to encourage and enable copyright infringement.

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Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from CMU Online

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