Didn’t they also get him fired from his job too?

Huh? Did you ever have an OiNK account?
I never gave OiNK a penny for anything :P

Thinking about it, i’m not even sure the site had adverts :/

There was nothing commercial here at all. Sure you could donate however much you wanted and in return get a little donater’s emblem next to your name….

You did NOT get:
A wider selection of torrents.
The ability to download more without sharing to the same ratio as a non-donater.

Or anything torrent related other than access to the ‘advanced search’ feature, which allowed you to search by similar artists.

They are most likely expecting to have much more tougher, and for the prosecution simpler, laws in place by 2010 that will allow them to freely rape anyone of their choosing, with or without true reason.

Guy Fawkes, we need you NOW.

Unfortunately, private tracker, commercial purpose = criminal.

The recording industries, BPI, IFPI, RIAA, FACT and MPAA all seem to be getting the upper hand through easy pickings. If they hadn’t got a case against this guy, they wouldn’t have got an adjournment. Probably just waiting for a judge to become available with sufficient technical knowledge to understand the issues.

Shouting like love struck teens deprived of their beloved wank-mags isn’t going to cut it with corrupt politicans, an uncaring public and an avaricious music/filmsoftware industry. The best bet is to give this one up as a (sadly) lost cause and donate to the creation of new sites.

The biggest weapon the file sharers have is resilience and numerical superiority. It takes a couple of weeks to set up a new tracker, it takes then months or years to get their “cases” through the court system.

The man is a legend.

He developes the BEST music promotion tool in the world (STILL!).

He developes the BEST high-quality music aquisition tool in the world (STILL!).

He developes one of the BEST audiophile commuity in the world.

And he’s been on bail for longer than most people in the BPI have kept there jobs!

Why?
Because of the shitstorm it would cause if he was given the not-guilty verdict.

I for one would IMMEDIATLY open up a tracker if i knew i could do so legally in the UK.

I feel so sorry for people reading this with an interest in music who didn’t have an OiNK account.

My knowledge of music, how it’s encoded, the fine detail of good quality sources, the hardware to listen to it on, etc etc – all of it stems from OiNK.

My love for jazzy intrumental hip-hop, classical and blues was non-existant untill OiNK.

OiNK. Was. Music.

If i was a millionaire i’d spend every penny getting that man the justice and more importantly the recognition he deserves.

Fucking national hero IMHO.

its easier to prosecute a smaller population of users in a community than a bigger one like what, easily.

you are mistaken sir, what has very good quality and quantity, and has the most flac/ lossless out of any private site. also, it’s easier to go after the smaller sites with less of a population than a growing community. :)

it never can be replaced with what.cd, waffels.fm or what ever. Deep down it still hurts and there is no medicine to take the pain away.

RIP OiNK’s Pink Palace!

During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Four users of the popular BitTorrent tracker have already been sentenced to community service, fines and payment of court cos…