The so-called Sinde Act, aimed at fighting against piracy in Spain, will become effective next March and it has already been disclosed a list including 122 download sites that will be the first ones in being denounced, such as the popular Hispanic OTTs Series Yonkis, Cinetube, Vagos.es and Latin American web pages like Argentine Taringa!, among others.
Such listing has been disclosed by the Spanish newspaper Público. It was developed by CooperRight Agency and sent, in 2009, to the Ministries of Industry and Culture, before Sinde Act was passed. In those cases in which sites are located out of Spain, the Copyright Commission, grounded on such law, is entitled to requesting operators to ban Spanish internauts such sites’ access.
Hernán Botbol, one of Taringa! three owners, told Públic newspaper that “since some time ago ” the site has been working on preventing the disclosure of download links”. “The percentage of visits to posts with content that offer links, regardless of whether linked files have rights, accounts for less than a 9%”. Taringa! records 72 million single visitors on a monthly basis and according to Botbol, 15 million of them are Spanish. Other Latin American sites included in the list are: chilewarez.cl, darkville.com.mx and argenteam.net, among others.
The list includes all possible technological variants: some web sites only offer file exchange links (P2P), others use ed2k protocol and others utilize bittorrent protocol. In turn, some sites offer direct download links Streaming links through external servers like Megaupload or Rapidshare. Affected sites are among the 200 web sites most visited in Spain according to Alexa ranking.
