OiNK Releasing Talent Enhances Other Trackers
Written by enigmax on October 29, 2007Great BitTorrent releasers are a comparatively rare breed and until recently, a huge collection of them were safely locked inside a fenced Pink Palace. Now, thanks to the IFPI, trackers around the world and greater numbers of people than ever before are starting to benefit from an influx of talented OiNK refugees.
OiNK was considered by many to be the finest BitTorrent music tracker the world has ever seen. Tracking only the finest recordings from virtually every musical genre, beautifully labeled and cataloged releases were its trademark, created by people who thrived under some of the harshest releasing rules the torrent community had ever seen. Nothing less than the highest quality was good enough for OiNK.
Then the IFPI huffed and puffed and blew down the little pigs home and they had ‘won’.
Not quite. Did the entire OiNK indexed music library disappear? Did the releasers all see the error of their ways and stop releasing there and then? Did all the ex-members give up sharing? No, of course not.
OiNK didn’t carry any content, its users did. Taking out the OiNK site didn’t remove a single song from any of OiNK’s users libraries and they are taking their collections with them as they migrate to other sites, ready to share another day.
TorrentFreak has been listening to some interesting comments from some specialist music trackers (such as those on this list) who are not only getting record numbers of signups in the last few days but are also delighted to welcome talented OiNK releasers who seem really keen to share.
One admin told us: “Since the shutdown of OiNK we’re getting a spike in new memberships, at least 6 times more. Normally some of these can be bad members who do not share or are making trouble in the forum but I am happy to say that many come from OiNK and they are behaving like gentlemen (and ladies!)”
He continued: “We have an uploader application form on our tracker and we ask a few questions to the guy, then we make a decision if he is reliable etc before we give him releasing rights. On a regular day that list has many applications from novices with no experience (which can be trouble!). Now we get many OiNK members asking to release in this one week. They have amazing collections and make a 100% perfect release each time. It’s a great boost for our community.”
TorrentFreak spoke with the admins of three genre-dedicated music trackers who all confirmed that they picked up lots of ex-OiNK members and offers to release this week. This could be the tip of a very, very large iceberg - OiNK covered just about every genre imaginable and all of those sharers were made homeless after the raid - many of them for up to 10 minutes - but immediately settled in elsewhere, ready to share again.
The Pink Palace may be closed, but the beats go on and on as some of the best sharers in the world spread their wings to trackers far and wide. Maybe pigs can fly after all.
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ive noticed it too. several of the music trackers im a part of have had non-scene releases increase like 100fold since OiNK was forced closed.
Now instead on one place, the IFPI will have to get into multiple sites, all of which i know have shut their doors.
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Having been an Oink user for just about a year I’m finding it hard to get into trackers, and the private ones I do get into don’t allow non scene releases. Private trackers should open their doors for a week or two so us Oinkers can get in. As the article states if you were on Oink you had to know what you were doing with the strict rules. I myself was a power user meaning that I had a ratio of over 1.01 (1.36 at raid time) with around 70 gigs uploaded. I had invites, and everything. But now I can’t get into anything worth while. Not with any decent quality control that is. I just hope the pirate bay gets Boink up and going..if thats happening or not..and it’ll get off the ground. I’ve got 90 gigs of music just sitting waiting. I don’t mind public trackers, but I hate having to get my music from Demonoid and Soulseek..
Oink was 100x better than any tracker that i’ve ever seen. people who disagree werent members.
yea i know a few sites have had to get more servers to help balance the load but it seems st music is realy good and even made a upload section for users and not just scene stuff
ofc, oink may be closed, but its users will never disapperar
yes, stm have definately done fantastically in this. aswell as libble.
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It would be really cool, if there was an application that would allow me to share my oink torrents I have downloaded on other trackers automatically, maybe even multiple times. OK, the metadata may be added later. But i think that’s not possible.
kudos to OinKers!
lets see what the IFPI is gonna do about that
to bad.. the community become fragmented
too bad.. the community become fragmented
Idd that’s sad. OiNK was by far the best torrent site. Even the most expensive ‘legal download’ site, doesn’t even come close to the quality OiNK had.
Rules were strict, but realistic and useful.
and don’t forget to mention the
huge amount of software they had..
also a big loss :(
That was a really nicely written article, one of the best I’ve read on here in a while. In fact, one of the best I’ve read on any BT blog in a while. Thanks :)
check out this site
http://www.esooti.com
What all music unloaders should strive for are the same quality as was evident in Oink. Perhaps, with the passing of Oink, these qualities that made Oink so great will spread to other music sites.
It certainly will be a good day when we stop seeing transcodes and bitrates below 192.
[quote comment="198947"]ofc, oink may be closed, but its users will never disapperar[/quote]
Give it some time… they will
So OiNK was lossless only? That’s new to me…
“OiNK didn’t carry any content, its users did.”
Exactly!
Problem is, since Oink was such a good sight, the majority of us good Oinkers never bothered searching or getting accounts on other trackers. Now that it’s down, there’s a whole bunch of us with HQ collections out there that can’t find a home *Sniff*.
If only Oink re-instated the site’s memberlist and forums for us all to find a better migration route, or at least some damn invites so we don’t have to run around with the Non-Oink I-want-an-invite crowd.
thinik i’ts stupid all these sites closing signups i mean just because it’s invite only means nothing as we seen with oink and a load of other private sites that got taken down over the years…
end of the day if they want in they will get in and who’s saying they are not already in every single tracker that private as we speak? so all closing the doors is going to do is keep the massive power oink users out which is a win for the authorities and the powers that shut oink down.
If a site is going to be busted and closed then i dont see the point of limiting the members sharing i’d rather go down with 189,000 members than 5,000 etc..
there is 180,000 members and i bet 90% of them cannot get in anywhere else to share their oink content.
these admins of these trackers are idiots lol all us oinkers left in the dark banging on the door to make their community fill up with proper content proper music and we cannot even get in touch with them to explain the error of their ways.
As far as I know, the only music tracker of sufficient reputation that has yet to close themselves up is STMusic. We might as well all move over there and help build it up since the other sites are all going dark. If they won’t take us Oink refugees in, we’ll just have to find a more open site (AKA STMusic).
there are several good site which are now receiving my and many other torrents…just go out and find them.
An0num0s and his silly cronies are flat earthers. I bet he believes in Alien Abduction and that men never landed on the moon. The giant record industry is pretty much finished, their cocaine sniffing days on the backs of the talents they exploited are over and done. As a punk from the 70’s I saw the first real attempts to shake up this complacent industry and the development of great labels like Factory, it is only sad that Tony Wilson has died before seeing the fruits of his labours come to pass now the technology is back in the hands of the people.
file sharing torrent sites and their admins have the whole thing wrong the idea is to all stand together and unite were all meant to be flooding the Internet 100x more with file sharing so we basically make it impossible for them to stop us and kill off file sharing but these people don’t seem to understand the concept.
it’s like ants the more you stamp us out the more will come out the ground but this isn’t happening like it should!
For instance when a site goes down like oink the database + source to the site should be made fully public that then means there could be 1000’s of replacement oinks which is going to be impossible for the assholes to keep killing 1 site of at a time.. look what happens the way it is? oink gone no replacements only invite closed stupid sites.
the whole point is not for personal gain the whole point of releasing the code + db’s to everyone and anyone is to show them if they hit us once… we will hit back and make it 10000 times worse
but as per usual people are totally self-ish if oinks gone now release the damn code + database to the world so we can make 1000’s of replacements
use your brains because AT the moment they are WINING!!
and before you reply back flaming me or saying shut up just think about if we all worked together not for personal gain but to make sure file sharing lives the way it was meant to be.
I had hoped sites like Pedro’s BT, Libble, TranceTraffic, or even e***o would open their doors after Oink went down. Normally I can understand them wanting to keep things private, but after the 23rd there are 180k+ Oinkers out there. We all individually have so much to contribute to their sites.
I just hope BOink is as strict with the upload rules as the old Oink was.
BOink will be a public site, so expect loads of junk like on TPB…
i think stmusic will be the next oink.. but time will tell
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