Police Extend OiNK’s Bail Date and Returns Servers, Wiped!
Written by Ernesto on December 07, 2007The OiNK servers that were raided in October have been returned to OiNK’s ISP. Strangely enough all the data, and thus the evidence, has been wiped. In addition, the bail date for OiNK admin Alan Ellis, who was arrested during the raid, has today been extended until the 4th of February 2008.
The initial bail date was December 21, it is not clear what the reason for the extension is, but it is likely that the police don’t have the strong evidence they would like to have.
In fact, the police returned the servers last week, not before deleting all the “evidence” that it held. The police made images of the servers, but it is doubtful if destroying OiNK’s property, and the original evidence is even legal.
The British and the Dutch police both contributed to what they named “Operation Ark Royal”, allegedly acting upon twisted information fed to them by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations.
Among other things, the police claimed that OiNK was a money machine, and that Alan was making hundreds of thousands of pounds. However, everyone knows that OiNK was free to use and this fact was backed up by Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails: “If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now.”
The IFPI and BPI did not only misinform the police, they also hijacked the OiNK.cd domain and displayed an ominous message indicating an investigation into the site’s users had begun. These propagandistic threats were supposed to scare former OiNK members, and they succeeded in this until OiNK reclaimed the domain.
What once was the best BitTorrent music tracker on the Internet is now gone and wont return. Although most of its members and releasing talent found a new homes by now, there is little doubt that the music industry will continue to alienate itself from their customers until they are dead and gone.
For those who want to help Alan out, there is an official OiNK legal defense fundraiser where money can be donated to cover the legal costs. If for some reason the money isn’t needed it will be donated to an animal charity. At this point it is still unclear what the charges against Alan will be, if there will be any at all.
Stay tuned.
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This site is better imo.
http://www.stmusic.org
Haha, they got nothin, your gonna get out soon man, dont worry about those fags who put you in there, they will get what they deserve. Were all waiting for you.
hey #1,
invite?
:p
Glad to hear they extended Oink’s bail! I have found a new home, but I still miss oink every time I head to my new home
St music’s ok, what.cd is better IMHO.
stmusic sucks
I was never a member of oink.cd, and I’m trying to find a place to get started. Any suggestions?
EVERYONE!!!! Sorry for shouting but If we all wanna defeat the copyright police use Eraser 5.7, or 5.8.
Also encrypt your data With TrueCrypt so the police can’t find what your downloading, and always hide your pirated shit.
If you don’t wanna goto prison, anytime you feel you might have been traced erase your computer immediately.
I use a pirated version of Active Killdisk, and Dans Boot and Nuke disks to erase my tracks.
Erase Those Tracks! Erase Those Tracks! Erase Those Tracks!
try to get a what.cd or waffles invite. not as good as oink was, but its a start.
How about we institute a no-beg invite clause into posted comments. There’s usually decent commentary on here, and it’s been muddled by people who aren’t going to get responses anyway. It’s worse than trackbacks.
As much as I despise American politics, this bullshit isn’t confined to the U.S.A. It’s human nature. Rich fuckers will do everything they can to stick it to the lower class. The rich make the rules and that’s why these laws don’t make any sense. They’re not supposed to make sense, they’re supposed to generate dollars and cents for the rich.
I’ll trade an stmusic invite for a what.cd invite if anyone is interested.
I don’t really no where to get a what.cd invite… Or an invite to any other site for that matter.
It seems to me that the bittorrent community is rather closed unless you know someone who has an account on one of those sites.
Of course, it’s better than having seeders arrested left and right.
stupid cops. they sold themselves to the ifpi and the bpi and now that all is said and done, they cant back up any of thier lies. what a shock, i hope they all fucking die.
Sharing music isn’t theft (even though he didn’t share music, just ran a site that connected people to others who did), however taking someones servers is theft :/
stmusic sucks balls and can’t even compare.
I was a previous oink member but I made the mistake of getting no other invites anywhere else. Now all I got is iptorrents. anyone got some waffles or what invites? dmurphy10@mac.com
hai guz culd u plz send invite 2 imhonest@really.com plz i was a gud uploader at oink.cd n stuf TRUST ME IM HONEST
>>17
HAHA OH WOW
R.I.P.
OiNK was one of the best things that EVER happened to music. It was the most efficient method of distributing high quality music to its audience that this world has ever seen. Yet the fascists who took it down seemingly fail to realize this. Instead of looking at what made OiNK so great and learning from it, they destroy it and offer us shitty alternatives such as i-tunes (whose highest quality mp3’s available were the lowest quality allowed on OiNK). Why pay when you can get something better for free?
As a result of OiNK I heard more music, got into to different artist’s and consequentially saw a lot more shows (which is where bands make most of their money anyway, along with merch). I AM LOST WITHOUT OiNK
FREE Alan Ellis!!!!
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Oh my god. Can’t someone ban them?
Anyway, seems like the IFPI and BPI got what they wanted…
Oh man, that move on wipping his data was a bad idea on police behalf because:
1) Now if judge demands proof, he can say the police wiped his data.
2) If he is proved to be not guilty, he can sue the police for millions due to loss of revenue… well he could in the US anyway. ;-)
jesus you tards.
it’s not really that hard to get a what.cd invite; they hand them out in the irc.
and yes, stmusic licks balls like you wouldn’t even imagine.
[quote comment="232796"]Oh man, that move on wipping his data was a bad idea on police behalf because:
1) Now if judge demands proof, he can say the police wiped his data.
2) If he is proved to be not guilty, he can sue the police for millions due to loss of revenue… well he could in the US anyway. ;-)[/quote]
uh not quite.
his whole defense is “d00d i totalie wuznt maeking money off of itz”
AH, this entire situation pisses me off. These recording industries are starting to get on my nerves, and as such, I’ve boycotted buying CD’s alltogether. However, I still go to concerts and buy a ton of merchandise so I can give my money to who I want to have it; the amazing bands that make this amazing music.
I was a major demonoid user until it was shut down, and I never could find anybody who was willing to send me an invite to a private tracker. I would LOVE for somebody to send me one. I can GUARANTEE a ratio of at LEAST 1.5, and can likely get up to 5 if I like what I’m receiving. If you’d like to help me out, my msn is xlifeisfaytx@hotmail.com
With an on topic note, I cannot wait until the founder of OiNk returns. I’m likely going to donate a good $50 or so to aid his legal battle. He has my full support.
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