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opinion.latimes.com -
Promusicae, the Spanish trade association for the major record companies (e.g., the Madrid version of the RIAA), filed suit in Spain this week against p2p developer Pablo Soto, creator of the Blubster, Piolet and Manolito music file-sharing networks. Soto's networks represented the second generation of p2p, which eliminated the central controls that got the original Napster into legal trouble. He later added a layer of anonymity to sharing, making it harder to identify those who were swapping songs illegally. I can't read Spanish, so I can't even pretend to analyze the legal claims made by the labels. But their press release accuses Soto of developing software with the intent of profiting parasitically from other people's works. It also argues the the networks were created specifically to share songs online:
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