I too feel that downloading brings people in contact with shows, music, etc that they may have never found otherwise. I myself came across countless artists that I never knew existed due to my Oink membership. I then told my friends, who bought it online or at the store, they told their friends, and on, and on, and on.

I honestly almost cried when I got back in town a few days after oink got taken down and tried to log on. I saw that evil message and the first though in my mind was “fuck, where am I going to discover new music from?”

Sadly, i have yet to recieve an invite to either of these sites, maybe I just didn’t know the right people on oink. Oh well. Maybe someday I will, and i will rejoice!

Not that i’m begging, but if anyone has an invite to either, feel free to get in touch. Not gonna post my email here, cuz that’s just silly. but search on myspace for djtransient and hit me up there.

P-Funk All Star

Do people mean that when OiNK went down, I should have stopped looking for new music? Should I have stared into that waffle picture to substitute my music listening? There are many ways to be loyal, but you can’t be loyal to something that doesn’t exist.

KEEP SEEDING
FOR UTORRENT USERS: PUT ON THE TORRENTS WHICH ARE RED COLORED AS MANY TRACKERS AS YOU CAN. ALL ACCOMPISHED FILES YOU GOT COULD BE UPPED ELSEWHERE AND THEY WOULD NEVER DIE. JUST KEEP SEEDING

WORKS WITH ME

for those of you who don’t .. well .. don’t go there :-)

the2ndmail AT gmail DOT com

invite-only sites suck, they have obviously nothing to do with sharing

couldn’t care less if they all got taken down

I donated 20 quid to the OiNK legal defense fund the moment it came online , what exactly have you done to help?

I’m guessing you’re already a Waffles member, otherwise you wouldn’t be a callous prick. I never said anything bad about Waffles, only how frustrating I found it to be seemingly ignored, despite having sent emailed proof of my OiNK membership the day Waffles opened.

All these retarded people should just.. go away. they are polluting the damn world with their attitude and act! Fuck waffles. Stick together! Help each other out.

its a hard life isn’t it.
i think you’ll find your dummy on the floor next to Johnson’s.
hopefully its on your way out of this discussion, and you’ll be taking Johnson with you.

good luck Alan – long live OiNK.

I sent proof of my OiNK power user status on October 30th, and I’ve sent a follow-up message since then , I have yet to receive an acknowledgement, much less an invite.

“This recipient is currently unable to receive money.”

Weird msg.

I wonder if, in the case, the defence is going to try and dig out a correlation between OiNK top ranking tracks/artists and increases in high street sales of the above.

I know there’s a link, I’ve read them before, one in particular springs to mind about BattleStar Galactica being the most popular program ever to air on the SciFi Channel directly because of the popularity of torrents, story here:

http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html

There are others. I myself have taken a liking to Dexter and I don’t normally watch TV. It’s in its second season but there are loads of people keeping the obviously old torrents alive and sharing ‘em. I download and do the same.

Ain’t this behaviour helping the companies involved?

Reason 1.
I tell my friends about how good I think Dexter is. I hand them a DVD containing the first few episodes of season one on DVD to watch, they’re sold and go out and by the season one DVD; they don’t download torrents :s

Reason 2.
I’m advertising Dexter via word of mouth, which we all know is the branding/marketing King Pin.

Enough reasons.

Was/Is OiNK such a bad place?

I guess that depends on whether any individual or company realistically suffered as a direct consequence of the activities of OiNKS dedicated community. If not did they benefit?

If the latter could be proved It would be a powerful defence.

LiquidEyes.

@Johnson- you are an ass. At best.
You appear to be laboring under some delusion that you are owed something. You are the flipside of that asshat ‘musician’ who posted here when OiNK went down, calling all its members theives. Another frustrated dipshit, expecting something for nothing.

I’m going to wait to see how the Oinkfund pans out before donating, but if it appears legit- sure. A middle finger to the RIAA mafia, if nothing else.

so how there is even 1,2 members inside this waffles.fm i’d love to know how..

take it that im a bitter ex oinker and i am, im not bitter because oinks down im biter because people like me who was so loyal helped out shared way more than others are now left in the cold and told to get in touch with alternative sites but no one offers any infomation how too.

you know how annoying it is?

Next everyone says p2p and torrents should stick together and then what happens it’s meant to be about giving and taking, soon as these clubs start up no-one wants to give out ways to get in but they themselves was once in our shoes waiting for someone to get them on-board.

and this is meant to be p2p and community’ sticking together?

haha yea right

ps: i know, i know. everyone asks for invites, but what else am i supposed to do? i want OiNK back. :(

Read, yeah?

“Join the battle”? The battle for what? OiNK, or P2P in general? I have no problem with fighting for P2P in general, but I don’t give a shit about OiNK. I never cared about OiNK, and I was never a member. OiNK users wanted to feel like an exclusive little club, and now it’s up to their little club to help the OiNK admin(s) out, no one else’s.

And that’s the problem with exclusive private trackers like OiNK: When their shit gets fucked, the only people obligated to care are the few thousand members that were actually able to use the site in the first place. And it’s an even bigger problem that many members have already moved on because they had very little loyalty to the community there to begin with.

Note that I’m not some bitter asshole that never got an invite or anything. I’m not. I never sought out an OiNK membership because anything I want is available via other sources. I’m just trying to point out a negative aspect to these elitest private trackers.

Waffles.fm so far is pretty great, a little less users but wayyy more content. Its seems like the users on Waffels are the ones who were the most passionate about uploading music on the old OiNKs![/quote]
Please don’t start another what.cd vs waffles.fm battle. We’re all OiNK’ers and there is no need for fighting.

This story has been submitted to Stirrdup. Your support can help it become hot….

http://www.cafepress.com/oppluvvpigg/quote

DO NOT ORDER THERE.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OINK.

See http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/
for the only real ones …

Waffles.fm so far is pretty great, a little less users but wayyy more content. Its seems like the users on Waffels are the ones who were the most passionate about uploading music on the old OiNKs!

http://www.cafepress.com/oppluvvpigg

We’ve all been attacked, not just Alan :F

If there are charges, the court case will be brought by the Crown Prosecution Service, and any fine will be paid to the government. The BPI/IFPI will not get a penny unless they bring a civil case for compensation themselves. They would be unlikely to do this until after any criminal prosecution.

Any damages paid to BPI/IFPI will not be of the ridiculous levels set by the American courts.

invites only tard
Maximum users 18000
Registered users 16254

You do not get it, eh clever boy ?
Most ex-OINKERS care a lot.
Off course some are moving away,
Seems clear you did not follow all facts since the raid.

Well we, the real OINKERS, did. We are fighting for P2P and wanna make the outerworld clear something has to happen. The case against Alan is the change to let our opinions hear. That’s already happening but the more publicity the better.

Use you head, be part of the P2P world you are also living in and join the battle.

“Sorry, user limit reached. Please try again later”

Duh

what.cd is a great place, there often offline because there servers are overloaded with ex-oinker’s, there trying to let everyone in just go to there invite chan and u will get an invite, thats what i did. i’ve seen OiNK in there irc room too hopefuly helping them out :D and none of this silly bs about proving u had an oink account who the fuck takes screen shots of there ratio just incase a site goes down?

and you cant get into these sites?
invites are open now in what.cd

My cash will be on the way to this cause not because I ever used Oink but because I know standing united as p2p users we can kick the rip-off industry back into reality.

under UK law you qualified for free legal aid! now all the donations will be seized by the state to pay your legal costs

it was smarter you simply asked for some cash to pay your rent. the anti-p2p activity on your tail is gonna wipe out this defense fund. how stupid can a pig be?[/quote]

Says nothing about LEGAL fees on the website so they cant touch it and honestly some legal aid lawyer wouldnt be any good in a case like this its kinda new law that they dont cover in law school and a legal aid lawyer wouldnt be able 2 take on the industrys 100s of lawyers

Quote from saveoink
“into the hands of one of Alan’s closest and most trusted friends where they will ultimately go towards helping Alan and his family in these difficult times”

[quote comment="209899"]i just wished the idiot had given someone the database so they could continue with the complete oink members

im a power user i’ve provided proof i’ve done my damndest to provide infomation like they asked to get into a new home and what do we get back?

nothing..

The smart thing would of been to give the database to a reliable source and when that source become a replacement all the old user accounts would be active to login.

but nope 1.5 +tb power user cannot get into the new communitys due to stupid idiots who run them

they ask for proof we give them proof and yet no response

hell we don’t even get a full confirmation of how to “Contact them” and they actually expect new member and new users to just telepathically know where to go to speak to someone? ….

it’s ridiculous i feel more like oink has screwed me over considering the amount of time and albums and content we put up and we are left in the cold

i’d of loved to help with his legal cover but since he shafted all his loyal users screw it.[/quote]

dude are you just stupid or really really retarded how did he shaft u? do u think he KNEW this was going to happen? seems like u have a problem with the other trackers more than oink and how is it alans fault that you cant get a invite to another tracker

lol u say what do u get back and that alan shafted u well why are you even on BT if you think hes given u nothing back its about SHARING u give abit u get abit and u obviously got a fair bit if ur sayin ur a 1.5tb power user dude honestly get a life

theres so much more i could say about u but im not even gonna waste my time lets just sum it all up in a few words

U SUCK U STUPID FCUKIN CRYBABY QUIT YA COMPLAINING AND MOVE ON HE WAS THERE FOR U AND U SHOULD SUPPORT HIM NOW THAT HE NEEDS UR HELP AND IF I WAS RUNNING A TORRENT SITE I WOULDNT REPLY TO YOU EITHER YOU SERIOUSLY HAVE PROBLEMS

ex oink members will donate

Oink will be remembered for a long long time.

http://askaslacker.blogspot.com

Why would most ex-OiNK users even care now? Most of them have moved on to the alternatives that have popped up since OiNK went down. So much for loyalty to their beloved “community.” They don’t give a shit about that. Most of them just care about being members of what is essentially the “no girls allowed” treehouses of the digital age.

im a power user i’ve provided proof i’ve done my damndest to provide infomation like they asked to get into a new home and what do we get back?

nothing..

The smart thing would of been to give the database to a reliable source and when that source become a replacement all the old user accounts would be active to login.

but nope 1.5 +tb power user cannot get into the new communitys due to stupid idiots who run them

they ask for proof we give them proof and yet no response

hell we don’t even get a full confirmation of how to “Contact them” and they actually expect new member and new users to just telepathically know where to go to speak to someone? ….

it’s ridiculous i feel more like oink has screwed me over considering the amount of time and albums and content we put up and we are left in the cold

i’d of loved to help with his legal cover but since he shafted all his loyal users screw it.