Pablo Soto (software developer)

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

Pablo Soto in 2018.

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,[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.

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.
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