Pablo Soto (software developer)

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Pablo Soto Bravo (born 1979) is a Spanish software developer. He was municipal councillor of Madrid from 2015 to 2019.

In 2001 he developed the .MANOLITO protocol, Blubster and Piolet - two peer-to-peer file-sharing servants. In May 2006, Soto released Manolito, [1] a third clone application, and new versions of Blubster and Piolet.

He apparently left the MP2P Community in 2004; subsequently Blubster and Piolet slowly began to lose their user base. By the end of 2004, when discussions on P2Pforums.com [2] were focused on whether or not he had left the community for financial reasons, it was known that he has a rare form of muscular dystrophy, [3] [4] that has forced him to move in wheelchair. [5]

Soto later put his energy into Omemo  [ es ], [6] [7] an open source peer-to-peer software for storage space sharing (distributed computing).

In June 2008, Warner Music, Universal Music, Emi, Sony and the Spanish association PROMUSICAE filed a lawsuit against his company MP2P Technologies, demanding 13 million euros for unfair competition . [8] He was acquitted on the charges of copyright violation in December 2011. [9]

After the 2015 local elections Soto became a member of the City Council of Madrid with Ahora Madrid. He announced plans to promote usage of free software for the municipal software platforms, [10] and as of January 2019 is head of open government for the city. He has launched Decide Madrid, an online platform whereby citizens can propose policy for the city: a proposal supported by a number of users equal to 1 percent of the adult population is put before voters in a referendum. [11] He renounced to his office as city councillor on 8 October 2019, after sexual misconduct allegations. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Manolito Strikes Back". Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
  2. ↑ P2PForums.com - next beta?
  3. ↑ "Slyck.com Pablo alive?". Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
  4. ↑ Grokster chief heads to Spanish P2P firm
  5. ↑ "Ahora Madrid se queda sin sede por falta de presupuesto". www.abc.es. ABC. 28 May 2015.
  6. ↑ P2P Writer's Block
  7. ↑ Where's Pablo Soto?
  8. ↑ Las discográficas demandan al pionero español de la tecnología P2P
  9. ↑ Pablo Soto, absuelto en el juicio de la industria discográfica contra el P2P TV . ES
  10. ↑ Software libre: la receta de Ahora Madrid para acabar con el "despilfarro informático" Archived 2015-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ James Badcock, "The digital activist taking politicians out of Madrid politics", BBC News, 9 January 2019.
  12. ↑ "El concejal de Más Madrid Pablo Soto dimite tras ser acusado de acoso sexual por una compañera". El País (in Spanish). 2019-10-08. ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 2023-04-04.
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