OiNK Down, Norwegian BitTorrent Trackers Next
Written by enigmax on October 24, 2007With the BitTorrent world spinning on its heels after the shock takedown of the huge OiNK tracker, there are now indications that the shutdowns may continue. According to the lawyer who lost against ‘DVD Jon’, next stop is Norway and raids are imminent.
Yesterday, the OiNK BitTorrent tracker was raided and shutdown, not by the MPAA but by real life, bona fide police, working hand in hand with industry association, the IFPI. The war against BitTorrent - usually played out on the civil law arena - has suddenly found itself in the criminal domain. The rules have changed.
With the whole BitTorrent community asking themselves what comes next, a clear indicator has come from a lawyer who works for the industry prosecuting file-sharers:
Norway is next and raids are imminent.
Espen Tøndel is a Norwegian lawyer well known for his legal defeat against ‘DVD Jon‘. He is currently working with the Norwegian branch of the IFPI and MPAA.
Tøndel says the Norwegian police are prepared and ready to carry out raids against Norwegian sites. Everything is in place.
When asked to identify the sites, Tøndel refused to elaborate other than to say that the investigation has been underway for some time and that enough names and evidence has already been gathered to make prosecutions in several cases.
When questioned about the possible fate of Norwegian members of OiNK specifically, nothing further was added other than to stress the close co-operation between British, Dutch and Norwegian police.
Tøndel also speculates on who might be prosecuted if the OiNK database is available to police. His thoughts range from suggesting people who upload and downloaded a lot might be in trouble, right through to ‘random individuals’. Or maybe there is another possibility?
Maybe the police don’t have usable lists.
According to the article, a source has stated that the OiNK membership list was not only encrypted, but also equipped with a ’self-destruct’ type mechanism which relied on a regular signal to continue in ‘OFF’ mode.
Although unconfirmed, this situation would be of some comfort to OiNK’s 180,000 members.
Previously: Why Are The IFPI and BPI Allowed To Hijack OiNK?
Next: P2PKids: Because We Care About Sharing
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[quote comment="194747"]Yes FISCAL, but this is not about a fiscal matter, it is about piracy ![/quote]
The FIOD handles all copyright cases in the Netherlands, They are all about piracy.
looking at that guy makes me understand a bit why the music industry still lives in 1933 :f
[quote comment="194728"]OMFG !!! HOW MANY TIMES DO HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS NOT THE POLICE BUT THE FIOD-ECD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dutch tax inspection agency.
FUCK your hand in hand bullshit.
On who’s side are you !?[/quote]
The police’s side of course. Seeing as most my family are cops I only see fit to be on their side but continuing my illegal activities seeing as the Intel from HQ will always keep me 2 steps ahead of thoughs idiots at the anti-piracy groups. As for IFPI… HA!! People don’t you get it? The people were pissed at OiNK for some time and it only seemed to create turbulence in the cyber community. Of course they were shut down. Will they return? hmm well lets just hope that this scare has taught them a lesson. It may not be over due to political reasons and the fact that the governments are more interested in “waisting” tax money doing this then getting to real crimes like murder. Just keep in mind. OiNK MOD’s and Admins all pissed a lot of people off and I’m not talking about anti-piracy groups, they pissed people off that have more control then thoughts groups. Mabby if other people were more like the sites that seem to be let off easy “example Demonoid” perhaps OiNK would still be online. Who knows right now, guess you will just have to keep watch over CNN and hope you hear it their before I’m msg’n you to leave the house now. X-D
You’re stealing from musicians and you know it. Just because it’s been easy and anonymous up to this point, doesn’t mean you’re not a scumbag thief.
I know what ones next. It’s a tv tracker btw. Try and guess.
[quote comment="194774"]so whats the story with the likes of Pirate Bay and mininova.. surely these guys must be attracting huge attention?[/quote]
Doubtful that anything will happen to Mininova since it is an indexing site and do not host any trackers. The Pirate Bay does have trackers in addition to indexing so they will more likely be targeted. But TPB was raided once with no success.
[quote comment="194782"][quote comment="194765"]Yeah, you like pretending you’re an anarchist while you sit in your parents house.
Stop lying to yourself. You’re stealing from musicians. Scumbags.[/quote]
Stealing music… that’s rich. Stealing. “When someone takes something that does not belong to them, from the person it bellonges to.”
I have never “taken” a track from a band. The track is still theirs. I just listen to it from my computer for free! ^^
[quote]Yeah, you like pretending you’re an anarchist while you sit in your parents house.[/quote]
Huh?
[quote]You’re stealing from musicians.[/quote]
I’m still waiting for the capitalist logic behind saying sharing is stealing.
You take advantage of the fact you can copy music, so instead of buying it, you steal it. Your stealing takes money from the record store, and the royalties for musicians.
Quit pretending you don’t know that already.
Espen Tøndel teh faggot b0y
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I’m still waiting for the capitalist logic behind saying sharing is stealing.[/quote]
Your ignorance of copyright law isn’t an excuse to be a thief.
“Honest officer, I didn’t know it was illegal to rob this man.”
Good luck with that defense.
[quote comment="194765"]Yeah, you like pretending you’re an anarchist while you sit in your parents house.
Stop lying to yourself. You’re stealing from musicians. Scumbags.[/quote]
Actually they are assisting the small bands promote their music. Instead of the small bands being forced to pay thousands of dollars/euros to get a record label and waiting for the label to finally launch. The free bands can quickly upload their music to the P2P world and get an honest opinion on their music.
This is how you build your listeners/fans.
I may be an asshole but hey, X-D I don’t give 2 shits.
THe biz is trying to make up for the profit they lost when they did not adapt to the changing market and tech. Did the post offices ever close down due to email?
Plain pathetic behaviour, they are service providers but do not aim to please the comsumer but prey on them.
cut polution, production costs and labour - give us high rez media on demand.
[quote comment="194795"]You take advantage of the fact you can copy music, so instead of buying it, you steal it. Your stealing takes money from the record store, and the royalties for musicians.
Quit pretending you don’t know that already.[/quote]
your mum stole george bush`s sperm, look where it got her… HAHA
[quote comment="194790"]You’re stealing from musicians and you know it. Just because it’s been easy and anonymous up to this point, doesn’t mean you’re not a scumbag thief.[/quote]
hmm good point… hows this email me your address so I can show you how much of a scumbag I am. X-D
What bullshit. Anyone can go to a bands website and see if they like their music.
Except instead of buying their music and helping them, you steal it.
You’re a scumbag thief.
That logic only works if you assume that someone would definitely buy a cd if they couldn’t download it. Most people either download stuff they’d never buy, or they buy stuff because they’ve downloaded it. The former isn’t taking money from the record companies, and the latter increases their sales.
[quote comment="194793"][quote comment="194782"][quote comment="194765"]Yeah, you like pretending you’re an anarchist while you sit in your parents house.
Stop lying to yourself. You’re stealing from musicians. Scumbags.[/quote]
Stealing music… that’s rich. Stealing. “When someone takes something that does not belong to them, from the person it bellonges to.”
I have never “taken” a track from a band. The track is still theirs. I just listen to it from my computer for free! ^^[/quote]
your not helping shhh
Have I ever stolen music: yes.
However, all of you who act like its the big capitalist pigs ruining the world get off your high horse.
It’s easy to talk but everyone acts like a capitalist.
Don’t like it? Move to China. If you’re there already, lol.
dude come up with something better than scumbag thief, thats 3 times now.
and the argument can be made that sites like oink exposed people to music they’d never hear otherwise.
but yea i don’t think you’re gonna change anyone’s mind here, so go back to digg and read about something else
[quote comment="194806"]Most people either download stuff they’d never buy, or they buy stuff because they’ve downloaded it. [/quote]
Oh yeah, that famous lie.
So everything you listen to is actually stuff you bought?
What a fucking joke. You thieves will do anything to try and justify your stealing money out of musician’s pockets.
[quote]You take advantage of the fact you can copy music, so instead of buying it, you steal it. Your stealing takes money from the record store, and the royalties for musicians.[/quote]
No, I have not taken any money from a record store. I’ve not taken anything from anyone. All I did was copy digital files.
Again, copying is not stealing. Stealing is practically non applicable on the internet.
Let’s say you have an apple. I take it from you. That’s stealing/theft. Lets say you have a CD. You let me copy it. That’s NOT stealing/theft.
Quit pretending you don’t know that already.
[quote] Your ignorance of copyright law isn’t an excuse to be a thief.
“Honest officer, I didn’t know it was illegal to rob this man.”
Good luck with that defense.[/quote]
What are you talking about? I understand copyright law.
Copying is still not theft.
Pathetic capitalist scumabags, more concerned with corporate profit and twisting words to suit corprate profit then freedom.
Music Lover, you’re such a troll. You’re on the internet acting like you’re all high and mighty. The only point to the internet is porn and stealing music. To further make my point you’re on a torrent related website. Clearly you’re just trolling to make yourself feel good.
The next thing you’ll try to say is that you’re a girl on the intarwebs.
“stealing money out of musician’s pockets.”
The record industry has already done that, if sharing music hurts anyone its the industry not the artist.
And lets face it, big record labels are dying and they’ve resorted suing and alienating their customers, i can’t wait till the day they disappear and music will become something to enjoy and not be shoved down our throats
[quote comment="194811"]come up with something better than scumbag thief, thats 3 times now.
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It hurts to hear the truth, doesn’t it? Because you know you’re wrong for stealing.
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