After winning a €13 million court case against the Spanish (and global) major label industry in 2008, Pablo Soto is continuing his peer-to-peer network innovation by launching a new startup called Torrents Software SL. The new company will operate a family of torrent-related sites, including the torrent search engine torrents.fm, downloader torrents.ms, and entertainment site, torrents.com. Working as a sort of “Google meets Bit Torrent,” the sites will be optimized for searching, indexing, and transferring digital media files without restriction.
As recently as 2011, the Spanish government had full intentions of cracking down on sites and software that enabled illegal sharing of copyrighted materials. The same government has granted Soto €1.3 million to help bolster the industry behind P2P file sharing communities, first with the file indexing site Foofind (which is still in its beta stage) and now with the new Torrents Software brand. The new Torrents family recently received an angel investment of $500,000 and is licensed under the Free Software Foundation.
Visit Soto’s new family of sites at torrents.fm, torrents.ms, and torrents.com.
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