OiNK Admin Released From Custody
Written by Ernesto on October 23, 2007After a turbulent day the admin of the raided OiNK.cd was released from custody. At this point it is still unclear what the legal consequences will be, but it is good to see that OiNK is back home.
The OiNK admin contacted TorrentFreak by email which confirms his release. As for the OiNK users, it is highly doubtful that the IFPI or BPI will go after them all, or even one of them. They do know how to scare people with messages like: “A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users”, but there is no evidence that they actually will.
More interesting perhaps, how did they gain access to the OiNK domain, and why are they allowed to spread this propaganda? They are not a law-enforcement agency.
NFOrce, the ISP of OiNK, said today in an interview that they were not aware of any illegal activities surrounding the site. They thought OiNK was hosting a streaming video site or a weblog. Yeah, right.
The BBC did a small report on the arrest with a lot of false information, releasing nonsense statements such as: “illegally downloading music onto his website” and “paying subscriptions to enter the website.” The video of the arrest is shown below, see for yourself.
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I am glad that the police is chasing the right people. I mean look around you. There are NO killers, NO smugglers, NO drug dealers. Social services and governance are also perfect. There are NO homeless people, NO unemployed people.
So why don’t we spend some money on investigating THE ACTUAL ENEMY OF our perfect lifes?
That’s what these people probably thought.
Well, I DONT care it it’s Interpol, CIA, FBI or KGB, I will certainly continue to use these “illegal” sites. This is a big “F*CK YOU” to every music/video enterprise.
We don’t want your music. We don’t want your videos. Radiohead provided a solution. It’s up to the bands to give to the crowd what it wants.
B.t.w. Apple, suck your itunes and get out of here.
iTunes, more like DickTunes, amirite?!
oink, lets build a new one,
please,
i don’t know how to get al this good music there was.
Classic, Jazz etc. etc.
now i have only my job and a wive,
where is the music……:-(
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Well, I DONT care it it’s Interpol, CIA, FBI or KGB, I will certainly continue to use these “illegal” sites. This is a big “F*CK YOU” to every music/video enterprise.
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One day, you will.
And perhaps that day is coming a lot sooner than you think.
A lot of you are being indescribably naive about this just because it’s easy to shout at the system. Unfortunately you are being woefully naive. They have been watching oink for a good long while (at least 3 months according to the reports, perhaps 2 years).
You want to tell me again they can’t trace users? They don’t know who they are or can’t find them through other means?
I think you may well find that’s bullshit and I think people need to stop talking all the bravado and start talking reality.
The most frustrating thing about that video, other than the completely ERRONEOUS and mistaken claim of subscription fees, is the trumpeting that the entire site was nothing but PRE-RELEASE material. Once again, stating that they really don’t care about anything except release day profits, once more.
Holy crap, they just showed WinAmp. Have they been saving this “digital music” stock footage since 1997?
[quote comment="196077"]The most frustrating thing about that video, other than the completely ERRONEOUS and mistaken claim of subscription fees, is the trumpeting that the entire site was nothing but PRE-RELEASE material. Once again, stating that they really don’t care about anything except release day profits, once more.[/quote]
do you really think that makes a difference?
Guaranteed one of those coppers in the video went home after arresting him and went on mininova or something, its a proper pisstake
I Will show you ware the
Pre realeased music came from.
There caled “Media Defenders”
http://mediadefender-defenders.com/msg03891.html
http://mediadefender-defenders.com/msg03063.html
http://mediadefender-defenders.com/threads.html#00001%20==%20fun!
Go through check them out.
see for your self.
JUST FUCK THEM THEY ALSO DO IT
umm will this affect my ratio?
Oink did upload ADVANCE copy’s of music to the site.
And yes that can be considered PRERELEASE. So YES they are to blame there… why do ppl not understand this fact??
this is bullshit i was a member of this site and i did not have to pay any subscription
omg did u see in the end them carrying out those 3 huge externals!
“”Oink did upload ADVANCE copy’s of music to the site.
And yes that can be considered PRERELEASE. So YES they are to blame there… why do ppl not understand this fact??”"
Boy and all i’ve ever uploaded to a tracker has been plain text files with a .torrent extension… I guess i’m doing something wrong!
Should this site be taken down if some asshat posted a link to a site with prereleased music on it?
I wonder how many involved in the investigation were oink members.
BBC is full of shit. The always give wrong information. Just take an example of this video.
If they can’t give u true information on such a small news, Will they give right information on wats gng on in World, Politics, Wars against terrorism n other religions.
ARGH! ….
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