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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[quote comment="199045"]I just hope BOink is as strict with the upload rules as the old Oink was.[/quote]
BOiNK is going to be a public tracker. not sure how strict you can be on the public….
once i found the good metal trackers i said FU to oinks nazi like quality restrictions and rules. not to mention the users at oink had no concept of what good metal was…
[quote comment="198936"]
Now instead on one place, the IFPI will have to get into multiple sites, all of which i know have shut their doors.
x[/quote]
Unfortunatly, the sad fact is that they undoubtedly are already on those trackers. Despite what people may think, they are not idiots, and they employ people whose job is to get onto these trackers. The basic rule of thumb is, “if you’ve heard of those trackers, so have they. if you’ve gotten onto that tracker, so have they.” Put simply, “Anything you can do, they can do”
Quality restrictions and rules are enforced to keep quality on thw wares, man!
I simply loved oink, and I even found some good metal there.
Now I am lookin’ for a new place to upload my cocaine.
[quote comment="199048"]BOink will be a public site, so expect loads of junk like on TPB…
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As with most people, you seem to be confusing ‘public’ with ‘open’.
EZTV is public, its not open.
As someone who has no inside knowledge about OiNK (I just happen to read this feed), I’m still not sure what the high quality of OiNK was everybody is talking about.
If you say OiNK had strict rules then this means it was “lossless/secure rips” only? Right?
how did oink start?
did it start as a public site then turned into a private one?
i really dont know im wondering how it started.
oink was originally open registration then it went invite only.
And no, Oink wasn’t only lossless rips, also allowed mp3 of 192kbps or better.
@troutmask: right on, brother!
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Diversification of torrent sites is the best thing that could happen now.
What about other Torrent news. Torrentfeak has becomes Oinks bitch.
Enough Oink news, who cares
^ what he said, plus no transcodes
Never Forget Guys!
http://www.cafepress.com/neverforgetoink
- Becky
[quote comment="199073"]As someone who has no inside knowledge about OiNK (I just happen to read this feed), I’m still not sure what the high quality of OiNK was everybody is talking about.
If you say OiNK had strict rules then this means it was “lossless/secure rips” only? Right?[/quote]
It meant (among others):
- Everything >192kb/s.
- >50% FLAC or V0 mp3 rips.
- Proper tags.
- FAST downloads, >500kb/s on average.
- No transcodes, different bitrates in 1 rip, RAR’d music etc.
But most of all:
-Literally all music you could think of. In 2 years using it, maybe once I searched for something and didn’t find anything. This really bugs me about all new trackers (STmusic etc.): it has nothing…really the amount of material available was incredible times 2. Also in the software, fonts etc. department.
for some reason this link
http://oink.cd/
posted in the story and in other posts still links to the hijacked page.
whilst this one
http://www.oink.cd/
links to waffles
any body else having this problem and perhaps an explaination?
“This really bugs me about all new trackers (STmusic etc.): it has nothing…really the amount of material available was incredible times 2. Also in the software, fonts etc. department.”
The answer is to put everything from OiNK back up on STmusic and elsewhere. It can’t be there until you share.
[quote comment="199094"]Never Forget Guys!
http://www.cafepress.com/neverforgetoink
- Becky[/quote]
unpaid advertising that I don’t think has anything to do with OiNK. There have been many message here about fund raising scams
I’ve been a part of OiNK for about 6months, mainly into ambient, psytrance and minimal.
I just can’t get into any new trackers. They are just empty.
Is there any rating or review of the good ones?
try filemp3.org guys
whats the second best public and private music torrent tracker
Oink should live.. Down with spam!…
[quote comment="199118"]I’ve been a part of OiNK for about 6months, mainly into ambient, psytrance and minimal.
I just can’t get into any new trackers. They are just empty.
Is there any rating or review of the good ones?[/quote]
so you used OiNK for 6 mths and you can’t find a tracker site? If you need to be told where we have all gone by now you aren’t looking that hard….or are you.
I would suggest people at least don’t post urls directly her at least make the enemy work a bit to find us, after all they can use the google links from OiNK’s site or is that admitting that google are doing exactly the same thing as OiNK? Can we look forward to a carefully co ordinated media accompanied dawn raid on googles servers? Googles dad’s laptop being confiscated? Googles site being illegally hijacked by semi literate inadequate stazi who can’t even make a half decent web page?
I want to see the RIAA take down the ed2k network… *g*
I can imagine the police’s sons and daughter blamed them for raiding Oink.
I just want to say, as a former OiNK member, I see a lot of people going to Libble and Funkytorrents but I cant figure out why for the life of me when there are so many other options and these are the ones you are pushing mainly because of the guy who wrote the oink memorial page and his suggestions. I think that guy is a total fool just by the things he said. Who in their right minds would suggest that 180,000 members should join trackers that only hold 12,500 and 5,000 members and around 700 torrents on each of those sites??? yeah I realise the sites can grow but why would you consider waiting around for three years for the site to get up to standards and suffer with russian forums and slow downloads. I belong to Libble and FT and they both leave tons to be desired. I downloaded several torrents from FT douring free leech that just disapeared from the tracker completely douring the middle of my downloading. I wound up getting two of the downloads I started completed in that time out of 8 I am sorry but that is just shit. STM might be new but they have the resources and the staff to add lots of new torrents every day and they IMMEDIATELY changed their site to accomidate OiNKers by adding a top ten list and the ability to upload music by regular users. I havent seen any other trackers go so far out of their way to make its members happy. And with over 50,000 members, why would anyone waste their time anyplace else?
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