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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lol @ everyone talking about the quality of oink.
a lot of stuff on oink was shit. bad tags, messed up file names, no .nfo, no .m3u or .pls
ok so most of the time anything that wasn’t >192kbps got nuked but I would have liked it to be much more strict.
Get yourself on a real scene distro source if you want good releases.
http://rockbox.psychocydd.co.uk/ for all you metal freaks out there that have no home ;)
please, somebody. help with invite on waffles.fm
“Get yourself on a real scene distro source if you want good releases”
Ever occur to you that many people don’t want the garbage that is put out today, that we may in fact want to download music that came out 5,10,20 years ago? Scene releases are great and all, but I liked oink because I could download things my parents listend to on 8 tracks
[quote comment="199535"]lol @ everyone talking about the quality of oink.
a lot of stuff on oink was shit. bad tags, messed up file names, no .nfo, no .m3u or .pls
ok so most of the time anything that wasn’t >192kbps got nuked but I would have liked it to be much more strict.
Get yourself on a real scene distro source if you want good releases.[/quote]
Obviously another stazi who never used OiNK. You ignorance of what OiNK was and will remain is so high you can only be another stooge of the mediadefender morons. Anonymous by name and Anonymous by nature. No matter what you do we have won. The industry fat cats better look for new jobs, sell the Porsche and get the bus.
typo… that should be >=192 obviously and yes you’re right i was only on oink for over 2 years with plenty downloaded and seeded (PU pretty much the whole time but I never donated).
i am not bad mouthing oink, it was one of the best trackers i have been on. but seriously anyone who thinks it was all quality is just fooling themselves and wanting to have a perfect memory to be nostalgic about. I wish oink had been more strict. It was often you would find torrents without even track numbers in their filenames.
Now yes, compared to the crap on public trackers oink was miles ahead. In my mind its just sad that so many people haven’t experienced better and think that it was the end all be all. Take me back to the days of FXP and now we are talking nothing but quality.
troutmask, are you saying the fact that waffles.fm asks for you to e-mail them proof of oink membership is reason enough to be suspicious of a setup / honeypot?
also, why mediadefender? i’ve been searching around the net for about an hour now reading the chatter regarding waffles and haven’t found anything remotely close to your suspicion.
i guess i’m just curious to know, is that all it is as of right now? suspicion? or do you have some sort of evidence proving this?
i ask this in complete seriousness — i have also wondered about the legitimacy of waffles and definitely would like to know for sure.
seriously guys, the cops took oink’s xbox. wtf?
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It was often you would find torrents without even track numbers in their filenames.
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I might have been lucky, but I never had that in 2-3years of actively using OiNK :/
[quote comment="199648"]troutmask, are you saying the fact that waffles.fm asks for you to e-mail them proof of oink membership is reason enough to be suspicious of a setup / honeypot?
also, why mediadefender? i’ve been searching around the net for about an hour now reading the chatter regarding waffles and haven’t found anything remotely close to your suspicion.
i guess i’m just curious to know, is that all it is as of right now? suspicion? or do you have some sort of evidence proving this?
i ask this in complete seriousness — i have also wondered about the legitimacy of waffles and definitely would like to know for sure.[/quote]
Only suspicion, no evidence. But the advise given by OiNK sysops was to avoid anything until an announcement was made here (see previous news). I don’t think an announcement would be made in BB, so I am waiting. If you check out mediadefender and the rest of that crowd setting up false site, false torrents is just what they are into. Be cautious and for the present put your torrents on reliable pre existing sites such as STMusic. If you check out the STMusic OiNK discussion in their forum you will find some details of where waffles.fm is being hosted. This
“Ip address for the site comes back as being right outsite St. Catherines Canada, right across the river from Niagra. hmm seems a little fishy to me as well”
There is actually a small tracker that seem like a good place to share some music:
http://www.musicbits.net/
Not many people on it though
I’m sorry, but the premise of the article’s title is busted: You’re not a “talented releaser” if your torrent cannot survive the death of ONE hosting site. You might be a “talented RIPPER”, but that’s another term.
The official OiNKs shirt:
http://www.cafepress.com/oppluvvpigg
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