Madrid - The major record labels' units in Spain announced on Thursday that they have filed a $20 million copyright infringement claim in the country against Pablo Soto Bravo, the founder of MP2P Technologies -- which operates file-sharing sites including Piolet, Omemo and Blubster. In their complaint, the units of EMI, Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music (NYSE: WMG) -- represented in Spain by industry trade group Promusicae -- allege that Pablo Soto obtained profits from the sites both via paid advertising, and subscription plans.

Madrid, Spain - MP2P Technologies has announced the launch of Omemo, a peer-to-peer file-sharing service that stores files on a virtual hard drive online. The service requires that users donate a small portion of the space on their hard drives, which are combined to form a collective virtual network. The company said that Omemo is both anonymous and controlled by the community rather than a single, centralized authority. "Omemo is essentially a multimedia version of the wildly popular Wikipedia but built upon our P2P network," said Pablo Soto, CEO of MP2P Technologies.