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
Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program th ...
servants. In May 2006, Soto released Manolito, 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 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, that has forced him to move in
wheelchair
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, problems related to old age, or disability. These can include spinal cord injuries ( paraplegia, hemiplegia, and quadriplegia), cerebr ...
.
Soto later put his energy into , an open source peer-to-peer software for storage space sharing (
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
).
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
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* Double Taz and Double LeBron James in multiverses ''fair''; unfairness or injustice
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''. He was acquitted on the charges of copyright violation in December 2011.
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
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
for the municipal software platforms, and 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.
[James Badcock]
"The digital activist taking politicians out of Madrid politics"
BBC News, 9 January 2019. He renounced to his office as city councillor on 8 October 2019.
References
External links
Pablo Soto Homepage*https://web.archive.org/web/20071022051035/http://www.blubster.com/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20001109023200/http://www.piolet.com/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071023182130/http://www.manolito.com/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071123182256/http://www.omemo.com/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20100401204330/http://www.foofind.com/
1979 births
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
People with muscular dystrophy
Madrid city councillors (2015–2019)
Madrid city councillors (2019–2023)
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