Omemo

Labels Sue Spanish File-Sharing Sites Blubster, Piolet & Omemo

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 5, 2008 - 11:12am.

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.

Omemo Launches P2P Network That Uses Virtual Hard Drives

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 20, 2007 - 9:56am.

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.