Described as the Popcorn Time of music, software aurous alpha version due out in October 10. It wants to offer the free unlimited music streaming, via the BitTorrent protocol. But the program, illegal, may soon attract the wrath of the record industry. It was described in the press as the Popcorn Time music, referring to software that allows users to see free and illegally streaming movies via an extremely simple interface and mobilizes actually based architecture BitTorrent protocol to go get links on P2P sites content requested by users. The program in question is called aurous. Under development for several months, it recently sparked public curiosity since his manager was interviewed by TorrentFreak. It must be said that the project is both intriguing and ambitious, since it just will emerge as a heavyweight musical software, leveraging P2P. VIA STREAMING OF MUSICAL BITTORRENT Visually, aurous offers an interface that will not destabilize the regulars music services: include a central portion with the list of search results (with the columns: title, artist, album, duration) and a column on the left that This playlists, the album cover and the controls (play, pause, forward / rewind a song, shuffle, etc.). Aurous also includes options to import playlists from other platforms (examples of Spotify, YouTube and Pandora are given) and to build up a music library by searching the titles that appear locally on the hard drive. The support of major music formats (FLAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, and WebA OPUS) promise.

The game of cat and mouse continues. Pursued by Civil Society of Phonographic Producers (SCPP) for infringement of copyright, T411 comes again to change domain name. The famous BitTorrent link site has indeed set an address that uses the extension first level reserved for India (.in), seven months after a previous move. So far, T411 used the domain attributed to the British territory in the Indian Ocean (.io). But the French courts made it far less relevant when, during the summer, it was decided to extend the blocking of the site at this address, which had been set up precisely to counter a first court decision, which then targeted his Montenegrin URL (".me"). Orange was the first ISP to comply with the new judgment ordering to aim the address .io, in addition to the .me. For this, the operator has chosen to use the DNS liars method: When subscribers try to access the BitTorrent link site, they are redirected to another page. This approach, however, is fairly easy to dodge, with a little technique. To the extent that a first judgment has extended the lock T411 to take into account the new address, there is a good chance that this scenario is repeated with the current URL. But anyway, the court case will in any case a necessary step. During the first verdict, it was announced that "any measure affecting another site must be authorized by a judicial authority, ISPs with no content monitoring obligation and Civil Society of Phonographic Producers do not have the right to block access to sites without prior supervision of the judicial authority. "

Deezer change his tune. After conducting several successful fundraising in recent years, some of which allowed him to harvest up to 100 million euros, the French online music service has now perform an IPO. This could occur by the end of 2015 if no particular delay disturbs the process. So far, Deezer hesitated between two major scenarios: besides the arrival of the music platform in the financial markets, it was also considered simply complete a new fundraising from private investors. A tactic that paid off so far, as the previous rounds have allowed the company to finance its development. The arrival of Deezer stock exchange is a major challenge because the streaming service performance will now be followed with great attention. But it is not alone in this niche: other significant players like Spotify and Apple Music are formidable opponents that could well thwart his longer-term projects. In addition to the number of listeners (16 million users) and the ratio between free users and subscribers (over 6 million customers), the ability to Deezer to earn money will be closely observed. Except that this time, because of its international strategy that has required significant resources Deezer is not profitable. At least not yet: its gross operating margin is indeed progressing. For Deezer, it will therefore demonstrate its ability to be among the front runners streaming services, and in particular to deceive Spotify, his great rival, which accounts for its share of 75 million users including 20 million pass through a subscription, while its international availability is less extensive (Europe, Americas and Oceania, mainly) Deezer (over 180 countries). For the moment, it is in France that concentrates most of the activity of Deezer, both financially and in terms of its visibility (subscribers come for much of its agreement with Orange, whose deadline is 2018). Deezer certainly made efforts in other countries, like the United States, a key market, but it remains relatively high.

More than two years after fleeing his country to denounce the NSA practices, Edward Snowden continues to deliver intelligence on the extent of monitoring programs put in place by the club of the "Five Eyes", the alliance of service Intelligence of the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. The site publishes new Intercept and documents provided by former US agent, which show that the British GCHQ had deployed means at least as important as the NSA to spy especially the history of millions of online web. Program code name in place since 2007: KARMA POLICE. By duplicating the traffic of international fiber optic cables that pass through Britain (as the DGSE did the cables connected in France), the GCHQ collected every day over 100 billion metadata covering the web pages visited by Internet users, communication on instant messaging tools, e-mail, Skype calls, geolocation of mobile devices, exchanges on social networks, etc. All IP addresses linked to the connections are collected, and the cookies generated by the major websites like Google, Amazon, YouTube, BBC, Reddit, Facebook, Windows Live, Hotmail, etc. All this information is sent in a huge data base called "Black Hole" ("black hole"), which in March 2009 comprised 41% of information related to the web log. A baptized MUTANT BROTH program then allows to cross the information to find the IP address of a person from his email address or user name, or on the contrary, to find the username or frequently the email address associated with an IP address to find its identity. All traces of metadata is exploited to browser type, version, the length of the password, etc., to obtain unique identifiers, called TDI ("Target Detection Identifiers")

For over five years the project is in the pipeline, but it would now be a matter of weeks or months. While Google has confirmed it a few months ago his wish to offer a paid subscription on YouTube that allow users to not undergo publicity and perhaps access to exclusive content, a Re / code website reveals that Legal preparations for the launch rush. YouTube has thus sent an e-mail to rights holders to prevent they had to accept at the latest on October 22 the new license agreement covering the use of their videos on the paid version of the site. Those who do not respond or refuse the contract will have their videos become inaccessible from the United States (where the subscription is set to open), and / or not be able to ask to share advertising revenue. According to Re / Code, YouTube would provide the service to charge $ 10 a month, which would include not only access to the videos without advertising, but also access to YouTube Music Key service launched last year in beta. 95% of content viewed by users are already covered by licensing agreements.

The ambitions of Russia to weaken the digital network will have to be revised downwards. And for good reason: the agency that had won a state funding to start research to break this network has clearly renounced to continue its work, according to documents has been able to consult Bloomberg. In addition, a law firm was even hired to put an end to the contract. Recall of facts. Last year, the publication of an offer on the website of the Russian procurement of TOR is discovered. This requires scientists to find solutions to overcome the anonymity of the users of the network, which is perceived as a potential threat by the authorities. To finance the work, a budget of about 83,000 euros (3.9 million rubles) is planned. This funding is in reality not very surprising. Already in 2013, the director of the Federal Service of Security of Russia (FSB, former KGB), Alexander Bortnikov, had informed all the evil he thought of TOR, which is seen by the government as a refuge for criminals to to escape justice. The boss of the security services had even called for its outright ban. According to Bloomberg, is the central research institute in economics, information technology and control systems, itself dependent Rostec, which won the tender. But it has obviously chosen to revisit its commitments without that we know very well why (task too daunting to do? Insufficient funding? Something else?). The institute has certainly not hesitated to hand the wallet to hire lawyers to negotiate the end of the contract. The legal costs incurred are in the order of 10 million rubles (about 136 000), indicate our colleagues...

Should we see the weakness of free streaming or the renewed vigor of vinyl? Probably a little of both. While we noted the gradual disappearance of the musical landscape, overwhelmed by the hegemonic CD, the LP record comeback in recent years. Today, it can even bring in more money than free listening services and funded by advertising. This upheaval took place in the US during the first half of 2014, according to a study (.pdf) conducted by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), an organization whose core mission is to defend the interests of industry the disc. During this period, the vinyl records generated approximately $ 145.8 million, against 128 million for free music platforms, a difference of 17.8 million. A year later, it was widened to 59.1 million: vinyl reported 221.8 million to $ 162.7 million against the side of free streaming. The comeback of vinyl, which was already evident in the 2000s with sales records broken regularly, however, remains relatively limited: the sale of physical media on music (including vinyl) weighs "only" 24% the overall market in the US, while sales by download and streaming as a whole (including subscriptions) weigh respectively 40 and 32%. In France, it is more difficult to measure the level of interest in vinyl in the population due to the lack of calculation for this market, according to the National Union of Phonographic Edition (SNEP) due non-affiliation of many independent labels, emerging de facto his radar. But interviewed last year by Le Figaro, record stores them also noted a comeback. Besides the sound qualities attributed to him, considered by some music lovers like better than those offered by the CD or digital file (it is said that the sound is warmer and more natural, caused in part by the crackle of dust) the LP also benefits from an image of elegance, both retro and trendy. The pleasure of contact with the object and the beauty of pockets are also, at least for the collector, the elements involved in this common representation, while listening itself sometimes results in a real small ceremonial of the output of the disc from its case to its installation on the drive, through the flick of cloth over the furrows and the delicate put the needle on the record.

Despite his denials, Amazon is considering launching a television service. Negotiations are underway with American television networks for several months. Depuis de nombreuses années, Amazon fait l'objet de tout un tas de rumeurs concernant un projet de télévision en streaming. Le spécialiste du e-commerce a beau contester les articles en question (certains remontent à 2010 !), force est de constater que le sujet revient régulièrement. D'aucuns diraient qu'il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu. Et il faut dire que dans ce domaine, les indices sont multiples.. Début 2014, Amazon a obtenu les droits d'exploitation exclusifs de la nouvelle série produite par Steven Spielberg, Extant. La plateforme a aussi signé avec HBO pour diffuser ses séries en streaming et a fait savoir en début d'année qu'il produira une douzaine de films par an pour le cinéma et sa plateforme de vidéo à la demande par abonnement (SVOD). Par ailleurs, Amazon a décidé de retirer de sa plateforme les produits de streaming d'Apple et Google d'ici au 29 octobre, au prétexte que ceux-ci "n'interagissent pas très bien avec Prime Video", son offre SVOD. Pour le groupe, malgré les risques réglementaires que cette mesure soulève, c'est une opportunité de mettre en avant ses propres produits et services en évitant le parasitage de ses concurrents. D'après Forbes, Amazon est en train de négocier depuis plusieurs mois avec certaines grandes chaînes américaines (CBS et NBC sont mentionnées) pour reprendre leurs programmes, via un service payant. Les discussions seraient à un stade assez peu avancé, selon les sources du média américain, même si certains contacts remontent déjà à plusieurs mois.