OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested
The servers of OiNK.cd - one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers - are raided and the admin, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, is arrested.
The British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations. The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.
According to early reports OiNk’s servers were confiscated in Amsterdam last week. This seems to be unlikely because the site was still fully functional 24 hours ago. The administrator of OiNK was arrested this morning by the Cleveland Police. The BBC reports that his employer and the home of his father were raided as well.
Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: “OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”
OiNK hosted hundreds and thousands of torrents with over a million peers which makes it more popular than most public trackers. The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it.
In July the tracker already changed its name from OiNK.me.uk to OiNK.cd due to “legal” issues with their domain registrar. Unfortunately it now seems that the popular private BitTorrent tracker is in bigger trouble.
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Hope you’ll be ok Alan.
Goodbye Oink. It was fun while it lasted :(
wow
:(((
Ruh Roh!
primitive bastards.
Good luck to all the oink team.
noooooooo
damn, oink was my favourite music site :( big loss for me. hope that they won’t go after the users.
and wish you the best, admins/moderators!
Oink was always shifty I rekon.
Stick with Demonoid and TPB and you’ll do just fine.
Weren’t you telling us just 3 days ago to join oink?
Back to usenet!
Big loss for the community.
I sure hope OiNK will be back in one form or another.
Good luck to OiNK and anybody else facing troubles, you’ve got my support!
Spit roasted!
Farewell OiNK.
for all the regular oink users this will be a big blow :(
Anyone got any other private good music sites that could rival oink? I could never find any…
FUCK OFF POLICE
it seems like the fuzz are crackin down, this is the second shut down of a british site in a week
Can anyone give me an update on all this? I can’t access the site (Tues. 23/10) and I’m wondering if this will be the end for a great site that I was only just starting to use!
http://www.stmusic.org
Maybe TMT knew something already. He did some changes in the past few days to hide the uploaded torrents from the user profile to increase our security :(
A very sad day again.
Damn it! DAMN!
This is a very sad day. Hope the admin are o.k. I heard the news on BBC Radio 5 live. They referred to the site as Oink.co.uk and stated that users have to pay a subscription to use it. A blatant lie or just bad journalism?
That’s what you get for making it a private tracker and not giving out invites. I asked for invites several time and you refused. Serve you right. Maybe you should know better next time.
A very very sad day.
sad day.
prison?[/naive]
is there a fund?
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