The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of labels against the Aurous creators days after they launched their app. The lawsuit claimed the app’s designers were the creators, and primarily developer Andrew Sampson, harnessed public APIs to collate tracks from online services, including SoundCloud, YouTube, and Spotify. They then used peer-to-peer networking to allow users to stream that music. No torrent downloads were available. Nevertheless — and predictably — the RIAA still came for the ad-free service. Upon receiving the lawsuit, Aurous said the RIAA’s principle complaint was that its creators were profiting off the app. The creators rebutted on their official Twitter account, however, saying that without ads, they weren’t making money. The RIAA countered that by gaining a user base, the app could