The legal situation of Taringa explained by their owners

Many will know at this point the situation faced today Taringa. That is why we want to explain the facts clearly as we always do our work defending and explaining the potential damage that this process could lead to Internet freedom in our country.

By 2009, Argentina's House of Books, the publishers Astrea, La Ley, Rubinsal and Associates, Ediciones de la Flor SRL, Ediciones La Rocca SRL, SRL Publishing University, Gradi SA promoted a complaint against Taringa! and elsewhere for alleged violation of law 11,723. The original complaint was not successful in a prosecution, and could only proceed, after an appeal denied.

Maybe not all of our users know that does this processing, which is why we feel good a brief, and get some clarity on how much (or little) that is being reported in this issue: Processing is a judicial body that terminating the investigation stage, facing the elevation of a criminal trial. Overall processing judges indicates that there are elements to justify a trial

What happened so far?

We try to hold because they hold the middle of the instrument without stopping to repair that we have not committed any conduct punishable by law. The House confirms processing from the alleged criminal involvement in criminal acts by Art 72 of Law 11,723, equivalent to arguing that as managers of a web site we guarantee to the conduct of our millions of users. This affirms the indictment of first instance to try to explain the operation of this website "This action has enabled allowing users to publish links to download copyrighted works without that power ... was avoided." Omission is passing on the control without repair even if such control is possible (this is the real discussion should be considering in justice), and then concluded in the criminal involvement (yes, you read correctly, criminal) for failure to criminal conduct that can only be accomplished by "commission", ie taking it forward.

Under this logic also accuse the providers of Internet, search engines, to blogs, social networks, etc etc. without whose participation would not have offense possible. There is a minor detail, because there is a discussion on Drop but extends to all who partake of the internet and social networks.

Is the state that is responsible for the prosecution of perpetrators, and is also the copyright holders to whom the law gives them the tools to protect their works. As administrators of a website can not replace the one nor the other, we can not investigate the fate of each of the 20,000 post received daily, searching the vastness of the Internet, eventually determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what is there are.

This failure suggests the lack of knowledge and research that exists in our justice on the Internet and the profound impact it poses to the web of legal relationships in our world today. It is necessary for our users know we expect the trial to defend and stand up for what we believe. What is here is resolved will be critical for all of us on the Internet.


We trust that in that time then we'll know Justice judge on the basis of what we have done and is prohibited by law, as it is at risk the future of the Internet as we know it today, the future of content, the access and all the tools we use every day to work, to entertain, to inform us.

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Why the Hate on Internet Explorer 6?

A Great article of Chris Fullman

Over the past 2 days, the internet has been abuzz over Google’s long-rumored internet browser coming to light. Called Google Chrome (Beta!), the browser aims to significantly speed up browsing sessions and web applications using multiple threads (think of these as individual messengers instead of one very overwhelmed, underpaid messenger).

Of course, such talk immediately drew comments from developers and internet enthusiasts alike: the (second) web browser war is in full swing. Like the first war in the 90’s between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, comparisons were being brought back into blog posts and Twitter/FriendFeed.

As I’ve noticed in the discussion, developers’ hate for one particular browser was obvious: Internet Explorer 6; and as I’ve noted in the past, very publicly I might add, I’m not a fan of such criticism.

Let’s face the facts: When Internet Explorer 6 was first launched, Windows XP was just getting ready to go on sale. The September 11 attacks hadn’t taken place yet and the world was vastly different. Microsoft was riding high off of polishing their lead in the browser (cold) war, and sadly decided to take a backseat in development for a bit. At the time, Internet Explorer was among Netscape and Opera, as well as the (then publicly perceived bloatware) Mozilla Suite. Simply
put, there weren’t many alternate options.

When Firefox came around, the first public beta hit the internet some 3 years later. Those 3 years, development-wise, is a very long time, giving any team ample time to check off items on a list of improvements, new features and competitive options Internet Explorer hadn’t introduced or resolved yet. When Firefox was fully launched, it had a large community of developers
behind it, and a grassroots marketing push to get it to be the de facto replacement for the aging Internet Explorer platform. Toe-to-toe, Firefox 1.0 was a very different internet browser than Internet Explorer, even if both were released at the same time.

I, as a developer, understand the frustrations most of us face when we have to continually support Internet Explorer 6. I, along with the rest of us, can’t wait until Internet Explorer 8 is released and being pushed out to the masses via pre-installation and update services. But
there is still something about Internet Explorer that allowed the internet to reach critical mass with the general population. Internet Explorer 6, as flawed as it is, gave much more flexibility to
developers and users alike, to experience new functionality and allowed a
number of groundbreaking web applications to reach a larger audience.

While I fully support the efforts like “Save the Developers” and the campaign to replace Internet Explorer 6 with IE 7 or even Firefox, I can’t hold Internet Explorer 6 on the same pedestal as Firefox 1.0. I certainly understand and appreciate the differences in features, standards support and overall community support between the two.

And while I wish things were different, I can’t hold the developers of Internet Explorer 6 at fault either. After all, most employees can only do what they’re told, especially when they have other goals and projects in the pipeline.

Internet Explorer 6 was even listed by PC World as being among the “25 Worst Tech Products of All Time.” Hindsight is a terrible scale to measure by, and in this case, hindsight unfortunately takes the spotlight in criticism against an internet browser.

So I ask again: looking at the facts, knowing that Internet Explorer 6 is now 7 years old and is somehow continually being compared to even modern-day browsers, why should Internet Explorer 6 get as much hate from the community as it does?

PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs

We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.

Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings reported on by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The alleged thieves made off with about $2 million between October 2007 until March of this year. Officials believe they remotely broke into the back-end computers that approve cash withdrawals and grabbed the PINs as they were being transmitted from the ATMs to the transaction processing computers, which increasingly use Windows, the report says.

Wired News was the first to report on the ATM network breach.

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