Spanish programmer to claim big four record companies

Madrid, Xinhua (reporter Chen Hai Tong) According to the "Abbese" 6th reported that a 28-year-old Spanish programmer has been indicted by the world's four record companies, and was asked to pay up to 13 million euros of compensation.
The defendant Pablo Soto Bravo a wide range of music-sharing software developed using Peer-to-peer technology and offered a number of websites that offer online music sharing services. Universal, Warner, EMI and SonyBMG4, as well as the Spanish music copyright rights Group, filed a lawsuit against the Madrid district Court on the ground that his actions violated the right to disseminate information on the recording Products network.
The plaintiff believed that the defendant, as the founder and legal representative of these music-sharing sites, it provides facilities and conveniences for the mass transmission of infringing audio products, objectively participates in and helps the spread of infringing recordings on the internet, and these software and websites "have obvious profit-making purposes" and are profit by the music works of the third party, is a serious infringement of the record company music copyright behavior.
The plaintiff stated that the 13 million euros claim was a conservative estimate of the damage caused by the infringement. The plaintiff also asked the defendant to close the music sharing site immediately.
Pablo Soto argues that its software and Web sites are designed to help Internet users achieve more convenient music file transmission and sharing over the Internet, while downloading infringing music by netizens is not the responsibility of software developers. He said: "For example, I was hit by a car driver, I always do not want to claim compensation from the car manufacturing company." ”
Peer-to-peer is a "point-to-point" network technology. The original internet is a network of parties through the server and then interconnected together, peer-to-peer appearance so that network users can directly exchange files, direct transmission, so that the Internet really become a network structure