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This article is about a virtual community. For the suburb of Brisbane, Australia, see Taringa, Queensland. For the marine gastropod, see Taringa (gastropod).
Taringa!
Type of site
links provider
Available inSpanish, Portuguese
OwnerWIROOS SRL
Created byFernando Sanz
URLtaringa.net
CommercialYes
RegistrationFree

Taringa! is a virtual community from Argentina created in 2004 by Fernando Sanz, then acquired in November 2006 by Alberto Nakayama and the Botbol brothers (Matías and Hernán).[2] In Taringa!, users can share all kinds of topics through posts. This site is a Web 2.0 website.

Taringa! does not allow the publication of sexually explicit material [3] as a new site -called Poringa!- was created. In Poringa! users can publish this sort of explicit content. While Poringa! is a completely separate site, its users and moderators are the same as in Taringa!.

The popularity of both sites has grown largely thanks to appearance in national media and have been involved in some controversy about its contents.

System Users

All users (with the exception of freshmen) have a certain amount of points with which to evaluate collaborations (posts) outside. Each time a user votes a post, the author sees increased its scoring staff, which over time allows you to climb in the range of users.

  • Administrador (Administrator): Managers have the same privileges as moderators but also are responsible for the continuing development of the site in technical matters.
  • Moderador (Moderator): a moderator is responsible for maintaining order, peace and respect in Taringa!, Paying attention to protocol. There are 35 points per day.
  • Great User: is a prize for those who deserve it, there is no specific criteria for the award and the only difference with New Full Users or Full Users is that they have 17 points per day.
  • Full User: has the same privileges as New Full Users. Full Users are those who registered before the release of Taringa 3! (March 2007). They can give 12 points every day.
  • New Full User (NFU): after obtaining 50 points in a single post the freshmen become New Full Users and can make full use of Taringa!, including comments and posts in the general section. They have 10 points per day that they can give to posts they consider deserving.
  • Novato (Newbie): Users are newcomers to the community. Its activity is restricted to posting and commenting under section freshmen, but their access to the site's content is complete. They cannot give points.

Communities

Taringa! has a system of user-created groups that are called "Communities" (even though Taringa! is a community itself). These groups are used to share interests, information, ideas, creative content, and others. As Taringa!'s protocol states, communities can't be used to share download links, because that's a post's purpose. Newbies can't create communities, although users from another range can create a limited number of communities.

Users of communities

Any Taringa! user can join communities, and leave them as well. Visitor, Commenter or Poster can be set as a defaults of a range for each new member.

  • Administrador (Administrator): They can suspend users, create new posts on communities, edit a community's logo, description and other information, ascend other users to another range, add posts to the Sticky list, delete and edit posts from any other member in the community.
  • Moderador (Moderator): They have almost all the same privileges as Administrators, but they can't edit the community's information, such as: Logo, Description, Title, etc.
  • Posteador (Poster): They can only post and comment. This can be set as a default for each new user in a community.
  • Comentador (Commenter): They can only comment, as they don't have any privileges to post. This can be set as a default for each new user in a community.
  • Visitante (Visitor): They can only view content in the community. This can be set as a default for each new user in a community.

Taringa's users can post links to content created by themselves or other content they are able to share without infringe copyright law, for example scanned photographies already in the public domain, a linux tutorial or an article written by themselves.[4] When those links infringe copyright laws, they should be removed by the administrators of the page as it states the Taringa's protocol,[5] but in most of cases [citation needed] the vast majority of the contents posted by users are already protected by copyright laws (such as comic books, movies, TV series, books, music and videogames). Usually those links are not removed by the administrators and remain on the page for a long time. [6]. [6]

The owners of Taringa allege that the website works as an interchange site, so it does not host any file, but at the same time users are free to post links that violate copyright (without being removed or banned[citation needed]). In addition, many of the posts about different issues (like a simple article or editorial) are extracted from other websites or personal blogs, reproducing their contents with no permission from the original sources.[4] Morever, they remarks that Taringa only shows links and anyone can search specific contents like music or software, in the same way that those links can be searched on Google or Yahoo. Matias Botbol also adds:

"Sometimes people say that Taringa is a pirate website, but that is not true: In fact, there are people that post pirate content through Taringa. For instance, if I would search only pornography content on Google, then I could state that Google is a porno site. But Google is much more than porno. That is like the Internet works already, in the Net all contents are related, we did not invent this. Therefore, if we closed Taringa, its contents would not disappear, so they could be founded to download on another websites. We are not responsible for the contents posted by users".[6]

About the infringment of copyright, Millé Law Office's representative Alberto Millé stated in an interview:

"Sites like Taringa work neither as discussion forums nor as sites that simply search for contents on the web. Taringa mainly shows posts that include links to contents hosted in other servers and at the same time, this website has a search engine that allows users to find the links of the contents required. Most of those links are protected by copyright and posted or distributed without permission from the authors. Taringa works under the Argentine Law system, and Law protects the copyrighted works like books, music or software, emphasizing the absolute prohibition to reproduce all those contents if the authors have not given their approval previously. Therefore, if Taringa allows users to access to copyrighted material causing that any person may reproduce illegal work, the owners of Taringa are clearly breaking the law and they could be taken to a Court. Taringa should redefine its website in order to the large community of users be able only to share contents previously authorized by their respective owners".[7]

On May, 2011, the owners of Taringa (Hernán and Matías Botbol) were accused of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to pay $ 200,000 (USD 50,000). The Botbol brothers are being processed for infringing the article 72 of the 11.723 Law, which regulates the copyright activities in Argentina. This article says that "any person who edits, sells or publishes a copyrighted work without permission from its authors will be sentenced to spend a period of one month to six years in jail". [8] [9]

The Botbol brothers were summoned to delete the posts related with copyrighted material. In the case of those posts were not deleted, they could be arrested. The owners of Taringa alleged that they cannot determine if the material uploaded by useres were breaking copyright rules, due to Taringa has an average of 20,000 posts a day. They also manifested that they were not able to access to Intellectual Property Office ("Registro Nacional de la Propiedad Intelectual" in Argentina) to know which works are under protection of copyright rules.[8]

In addition, the accused said that on March 23, 2009 the controversial material had been deleted from the website, but "other user uploaded it again on June 19, 2009".[8]

Nevertheless, the court considered that the owners of Taringa were conscious about the infringments committed and in spite of deleting illegal content, they allowed forbidden material to remain on the website without being removed. [8]

References

  1. ^ "Taringa.net Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
  2. ^ La comunidad virtual más visitada del país fue creada por tres postadolescentes Diario Perfil, 2008-02-10
  3. ^ Protocolo de Taringa
  4. ^ a b Taringa, el polémico sitio argentino que crece La Nación, 2008-07-02
  5. ^ Protocolo de Taringa
  6. ^ a b c Interview to the creators of Taringa, Revista Debate
  7. ^ ¿Es legal lo que hace Taringa? Interview to Alberto Millé, El Argentino, 2009-05-13
  8. ^ a b c d Procesaron a los responsables de Taringa por violar derechos de autor, Diario Perfil, May 9, 2011
  9. ^ Taringa sufrió un duro revés judicial - ViaRosario.com
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