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="199036"]
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!
look what happens the way it is? oink gone no replacements only invite closed stupid sites.
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
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.[/quote]
I am not flaming, just concerned that this sounds like agent provocature stuff. Torrrentsites have opened the doors to OiNKers. If you want to shar you can. No need for OiNK to release anything, they didn’t have anything. OiNK or google both just point the way. You can find loads of places to get all the music that OiNK had links to…nearly every torrent that was listed on OiNK is back and by the end of this week everything that was there will be spread around and doubled. The music industry Stazi have really jumped right into the trap, they have blown it big time. Good bye to them. No let us see the artists thenselves start to control their own output. Factory record showed a buisnessmodel that worked in the 80’s, file sharing and distribution by the consumer is the buisness model for the 00’s. Radiohead have made a tiny step towards this, although they should have released all the music at full quality as a FLAC then I would have considered buying a Vinyl pressing or paying to see them..but it is a great step forward for a major band. Hopefully other big names with a genuine radical past like David Byrne, Bowie, Flaming Lips, Lambchop will also wake up.
If you want to ell your music then cut out the middle man, the leeches entirely. Digital music will be free to distribute and share whatever you do know, the cat has long been out of the bag and you are never, ever going to stuff it back in again.
Next we do for newspapers, TV stations, the movie industry and all the other sappers of the creative spirit.
No offense guys, but you people happy about this, are quite lame. People from oink (including myself) were greatful to be part of a community that built itself up and weren’t full of assholes + leechers.
So, big release audio from mainly ex oinkers to you people is a “good thing”?
God, I cannot WAIT to be back on oink v2, away from the noobs.
stm for the win
bring ur pink palace to connect to the music.
ST Music is still a long way off…
A search for Radiohead gives me the new web album, The Bends, and OK Computer. That’s it. On Oink, a search for Radiohead gave you every album, every single, every EP, and every soundboard concert.
kevin, i was a long time member of oink too. nothing else exists that even starts to compare to it. i mean, it was the one and only majestic pink palace.
we just need to find focus somewhere and create something else great. but itll be a long process, its not going to just re appear. oink was growing and becoming better everyday. the addition of OiNKplus completely revolutionized oink within oink.
we know nothing else compares. we just need to start fresh. sucks? yes… but we all want it right.
@kevin
well of course its nothing like OiNK,
yet….
but that will change..
if we start uploading
look, OiNK users around the globe are all looking for a place to share music. why not start our own private tracker? we can prove that we used to be OiNK members by forwarding the welcome email that OiNK sent us when we first joined, or if that doesn’t work, i’m sure we can find another way to prove that we used to be members.
just in case though, every member should start out with an invite or two in order to build up the community numbers once more. it’s about time we start retaliating against this injustice and take matters into our own hands instead of relying on these primitive trackers.
it’s starting to get pathetic, and everyday the painful loss of that massive library of music is cutting deeper.
[quote]look, OiNK users around the globe are all looking for a place to share music. why not start our own private tracker?[/quote]
I’m sure many would go along with that. It just needs a prominent member of the community (I know none since I was hardly a part of it; too hard to seed, thus can’t download much) to start it off because they would be well known.
To all you idiots whining becuase you never bothered getting into other sites cuase u were an ‘oinker’, well thats what u get for sticking your head in the Sand moron :P
to #56 and #57
im all for your idea. i heart oink very much and to bring back a private tracker with oink users makes sense, but i dont know if i have that welcome to oink email still saved. the number of people that will follow will surely take care of itself.
and #58
you are the reason why oink is private so your argument has no validity.
themusik.org
http://www.waffles.fm/toomuchpublicity.php
OiNK users, rejoice!
even if you don’t have the welcome to OiNK email still saved, all users will have many invites available, so contact the person that originally invited you and all will be swell.
[quote comment="199186"]we can prove that we used to be OiNK members by forwarding the welcome email that OiNK sent us when we first joined, or if that doesn’t work, i’m sure we can find another way to prove that we used to be members.
[/quote]
thats what waffles.fm is doing..
[quote comment="199057"]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]
You’re an idiot.
all you idiots circle jerking about stm…
you can only upload in 4 formats:
MP3 VBR V0 (alt-preset-extreme)
MP3 VBR V2 (alt-preset-standard)
MP3 CBR 320
FLAC
I got on there, downloaded one song off one album, and it was a pure transcode. It was garbage. And I couldn’t report it. STM DOESNT HAVE A REPORT BUTTON!
STM is garbage. Pure garbage.
[quote comment="199099"][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[/quote]
actually thats the official memorial t-shirst site that was set up by i believe 2 former oink moderators.
#64
is waffles.fm legit?
If you are looking for the new “OiNK” this is the closet you are going to get:
http://waffles.fm/ waffles. noone knows what this is going to be but its the one everyone is the most excited for. It is claiming to be a replica of oink and nothing but ex oink users. Could and hopefully will be awesome.
http://incegmbh.com/ - what.cd is the nicest looking and its only been up 2 days. It has 5 thousand members already and 7 thousand torrents..looks the most promising so far..because we have not seen anything else yet.
http://stmusic.org/index.php - st music, has the most music and members that ive seen out of the rest
boink.cd - pirate bays answer to oink, a public tracker version of oink…we’ll see..
http://oink2.no-ip.org/ - oink 2, we’ll see…..
[quote comment="199219"]#64
is waffles.fm legit?[/quote]
Seems legit. They are opening WITHOUT asking for donations upfront, nor are they advertising themselves overtly as Oink, unlike oinkcxla
I wish there would be some good torrent news, unrelated to OiNK. This is getting depressing. Just because I’m hung up on that site, why does everyone else have to be, too? :(
Scene/topsite acess and/or seedbox? email hilikus.waffles.fm@gmail.com with details on your situation!
waffles.fm
where oinkers go
well said sir.
You make a strong point. Although the OiNK site was shutdown, its merits most notably the large collections and standards for quality will permeate the entire bittorrent community. Surely, it will take time - OiNK was not created in days.
please buy my tshirts i need money for my drug addiction! i will sell out whole oink community for 15$
[quote comment="199242"]Scene/topsite acess and/or seedbox? email hilikus.waffles.fm@gmail.com with details on your situation!
waffles.fm
where oinkers go[/quote]
is this legit?
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