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Music Piracy Site Aurous Shuts Down

Music piracy site Aurous has agreed to shut down and to pay $3 million to the Recording Industry Association of America in order to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit. "We hope this sends a strong signal that unlicensed services cannot expect to build unlawful businesses on the backs of music creators.""Aurous appropriately agreed to shut down," Cary Sherman, the RIAA chairman, said in a statement emailed to Ars Technica.

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