had a 27 million registered user base, according with Taringa's own metrics,[2] who create and share thousands of daily posts on general interest topics such as life hacks, tutorials, recipes, reviews, and art.
The platform had a presence in every country in the Spanish-speaking world – its main markets were Argentina, Spain, Colombia, and Chile.
The initial version of the website could not sustain its rapid growth and was quickly sold to Alberto Nakayama and the Botbol brothers, Matías and Hernán.
as one of the foreign sites that "outshine Facebook", stating "there are still places where an also-ran or a homegrown alternative beats out the global hegemonies".
updated its homepage, making not only aesthetic changes but also by developing a new algorithm in order to highlight the best contributions made by the community.
Currently, posts created by users can be seen on the homepage and are ordered in three main sections: biggest highlights, emerging, or the most recent: Taringa!
alleged that the website worked as an interchange site, so it did not host any file, but at the same time users sometimes posted links that violated copyright.
Said article states 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".
alleged that they cannot determine if the material uploaded by users was breaking copyright rules, due to the fact that Taringa!
They also stated that they were not able to access the Intellectual Property Office ("Registro Nacional de la Propiedad Intelectual", in Argentina) to know which works are under protection of copyright rules.
were conscious about the infringements committed and that in spite of deleting illegal content, they allowed forbidden material to remain on the website without being removed.
[15] In October, 2011, The National Court of Appeals (Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Criminal y Correccional) also prosecuted Alberto Nakayama, finding him responsible for publishing links that allowed users to download books without permission from their authors.
The court, formed by Judges Marcelo Lucini and Mario Filozof, described that the prosecuted, as owners of Wiroo S.R.L., subscribed the hosting services of Taringa!
They alleged that the works which they were prosecuted for "were not hosted on Taringa!, but in RapidShare, whose servers are located outside of Argentina", so Argentine law should not apply to the issue.
was included by the FBI as one of the websites investigated for copyright infringement and other cybercrimes, as stated in a written report that was part of the prosecution against Megaupload.
(Matías and Hernán Botbol and Alberto Nakayama) would be judged under the charge of infringing copyright law in Argentina.
[20][21] The trial was finally confirmed in September 2012, being the first time that the responsibility of websites for the illegal downloads made by their users will be discussed through oral proceedings in Argentina.
uses the "notice and takedown" method which is based on a North American model of Intellectual Property management on the internet, known as Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
[24] Finally, in 2013, after having established channels of communication with the owners of Taringa!, the main plaintiffs in the case decided to desist from continuing the lawsuit.
signed an agreement with some leading intellectual property organizations to make a joint effort to "democratise the circulation of culture commodities online."...
The ruling established that internet companies cannot be held liable a priori for content shared by users across platforms and that there was no malicious intentions on the part of Taringa!.
Throughout April 2014, Kodama reported various websites which allegedly facilitated or reproduced unauthorized texts by Jorge Luis Borges on the internet.
Finally, the courts made their settlement in line with the jurisprudence of recent cases in Argentina – p.e "Belén Rodriguez and Google" – making the legal accountability of internet intermediaries subjective.
[28] In 2010, an Argentine user of the site built a bass guitar that he could gift to Paul McCartney when he visited Argentina for a series of concerts.
The income derived from the book sales were donated to NGO "Un Techo para mi País" ("A Home for my Country").
"No phone numbers or access credentials of other social networks have been compromised, as well as addresses of bitcoin wallets from the Taringa!