Ondertussen is heel de wereld nu wel bekend met Popcorn Time waar mee je gratis en voor niets de nieuwste films via het bittorrent protocol live kan streamen. Diverse 'forken' er van ondersteunen het kijken van TV series en natuurlijk porno. Maar binnenkort zal er een nieuwe speler op de markt verschijnen, namelijk Aurous, die enkelt muziek zal streamen naar een device van keuze. De website TorrentFreak heeft al mogen spelen met de Alpha versie en was zoals je hier kunt lezen, er al erg van onder de indruk. Reken maar dat de muziek industrie nu in hun broek zitten te schijten van angst.

et for alpha release in the coming weeks, Aurous is aiming to bring Popcorn Time simplicity and presentation to music content discoverable on BitTorrent networks. Taking a decentralized approach which will enable the app to continue functioning even if its website is closed down, Aurous' will turn users into P2P search engines

Over the past 18 months and despite the growing availability of services such as Netflix, Popcorn Time has grown from a little known open source project to a worldwide phenomenon.

Operating on the BitTorrent network, Popcorn Time appears to have hit the sweet spot intersecting presentation, ease of use and video content availability. If developer Andrew Sampson has his way, new project 'Aurous' will be reaching similar dizzy heights in the music sector.

While also a media player supporting a wide array of audio formats, Sampson says that Aurous will leverage content on the BitTorrent network to bring a Spotify-like experience to users.

"What sets Aurous apart is its ability to allow users to search for music, all over the BitTorrent network, using the very same technology that powers Strike Search," Sampson says.

"The app itself is decentralized, nothing routes through any external servers for the primary features. Even if as a project, development stopped and we shut down our website, the app would still continue functioning without any problems. It can look through entire BitTorrent archives in milliseconds to get individual files."

Sampson says that what Aurous does is turn each client into its own P2P search engine, one that's able to spot fakes and offer speedy results by weeding out non-audio files. For those interested in how Aurous functions using BitTorrent, a detailed overview is available here.