OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested
Written by Ernesto on October 23, 2007The 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.
developing story…
Previously: BitTorrent Gets More Social with AllPeers
Next: OiNK Investigation Seeks Identities and Activities of Users
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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?
It’s aint sad for me at all. I loved it. Being such a popular website and not being able to get in. TorrentLeech’s next!
Its only a loss if we think it is one, lets start a thousand new music trackers to fill the role!
I want a http://oink.piratebay.org/
:(
GOD DAMMIT WHAT THE FUCK!!! they police are such dumb shits and don’t realise why we have websites like these, do they! All my hardwork to keep my ratio good, fucking wasted. Twats
while your sitting here complaining you out to be cleaning the evidence off your hdds.
crybabies.
Can they use the information on the server to catch users? Or are there so many they wouldn’t bother?
[quote comment="193012"]while your sitting here complaining you out to be cleaning the evidence off your hdds.
crybabies.[/quote]
You are probably right about that.
can they? yes.
will they? who knows.
I’d imagine they will go after the people leaking high profile albums using the IP logs etc on the servers.
I am really shocked when hearing the news. Oink is the best, having scene releases as well as many users’ self-rips, always with high sound quality. Scene release is actually not hard to get but AFAIK there is no alternative for users’ slef-rip content.
The King is dead… long live the King
http://www.libble.com
way dont just move the server to .se ? :-9 i hope they have a backup off the site.
[quote comment="193000"]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.[/quote]
Sounds like sour grapes to me. The community was set up to engender respect and good will amongst its users. You display neither.
[quote comment="192976"]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?[/quote]
lmao demonoid is shit
Oink was absolutely great.
The strict rules on the quality and classification of the uploads kept it really good.
All you needed to do to join was show your accounts on some other private trackers to prove you would seed, and you were in. Just join the public invite channel on the oink IRC.
This is bad news :(
We are all heroes!
ExHD out the window, job done :D
[quote comment="193021"][quote comment="193000"]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.[/quote]
Sounds like sour grapes to me. The community was set up to engender respect and good will amongst its users. You display neither.[/quote]
You are an idiot to think you are doing good for supporting piracy.
The servers will be up and running again soon…. TPB style.
Im sorry to hear that OiNK.
Goodluck.
And all the stuff too.
There in it too.
Manily OiNK and TMT will be taking the shit for our great time.
Well be thinking of you OiNK and staff.
The moderators where arrogant. You visit the IRC for help you get kicked. The site op’s often asked for donations, and make a profit from file sharing of music.
To me, it servers him right. He was doing something illegal, even worse making money out of P2P.
is the oink irc channel down as well? please give address :)
[quote comment="193026"][quote comment="193026"]you are an idiot…[/quote]it’s hardly a dirty little wank is it. it’s sharing and finding new music. of course [i]it is[/i] a positive phenomenon, i mean.
As you can see from this story, everything is just fine!
[quote comment="192990"]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![/quote]
Wow…
Just wow…
[quote comment="193028"]The moderators where arrogant. You visit the IRC for help you get kicked. The site op’s often asked for donations, and make a profit from file sharing of music.
To me, it servers him right. He was doing something illegal, even worse making money out of P2P.[/quote]
Hardly - did you have any idea what kind of servers they were running? These things cost a bomb and the site ran like a dream because of it.
The style of moderation made the site what it is, and I’d hardly call it arrogant. Maybe you’d like to try doing something on a similar scale to see how you coped. :/
[quote comment="193025"][quote comment="193021"][quote comment="193000"]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.[/quote]
Sounds like sour grapes to me. The community was set up to engender respect and good will amongst its users. You display neither.[/quote]
You are an idiot to think you are doing good for supporting piracy.[/quote]
Noboday contests the arguments for/against music sharing/music piracy. Unfortunately some users don’t buy music at all. Personally, I and many other people I know that use the service download and buy the music which captures your imagination the most. That way, the people that deserve your money, get your money. Not the bands that have a load of money to throw at advertising and shoving the music down your throat.
Sucks. At least there’s still indietorrents? Ehh, it’s not the same.
Well to number 39….Demonoid is still here….that speaks volumes…I hate to see any tracker go….but thats the chance they take nowdays.
I was always brought up being taught that sharing was good. Thank you OiNK for staying true to those values and the values of many, many good people…you will be missed sorely.
most private trackers ask for a donation to help in the upkeep of the site, to suggest that the site was run as a purely money making exercise is a pretty lame.
if it was for that, it would have a completely open pay for membership.
Wonder how far back Oink kept the donation logs…
Anyone wanna bet how long it will take for a replacement to be up?
Heh… they really do not get the Hydra-like nature of the P2P community, do they? It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
r.i.p oink. a mighty fucking website, it was great and amazing while it lasted.
i hate to be that guy to ask but , WHY THE FUCK DIDN’T THEY THINK OF THIS AND HOST THE CONTENT IN SWEDEN ?!
Im a torrentleech pu…i know their servers are in the Netherlands..when are they gunna be hit>>>> fuking sick.
I made a donation recently - afaik it was via paypal, wasnt it?!
not the oink!?
radiohead.. trent.. help us!
Damn! This is such a shame.
I don’t think there was any tracker that could compete in terms of volume of house music. Anybody have any other recommendations?
#46: The IRC was in the same server, it’s down too.
I never used oink. I didn’t know a single person who used it, which basically meant I was bared from ever using it.
Goes to show that being private didn’t do shit for them, considering the TPB and Demonoid are still up.
he would get my simpathy if it wasn’t some elitist private tracker.
love you piglet! hope all goes well and things aren’t too shitful at the moment.
Seriously though, how is a tracker like that supposed to stay under the lid if sites like this one post reports on it like it’s everyone else’s business?
I’m talking about this:
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-is-alive-learn-how-to-access/
.. which is just very very stupid.
he lives about 20 minutes away from me, poor bloke - i hope he’s ok.
What’s the likelihood of OiNK returning to the web? Is this the definite end?
I heard that The Pirate Bay have been raided several times but they always seem to return….How come they are able to shut down one site and not the others that are still here (Demonoid etc etc)?!
It will be a real shame if OiNK never returns. It was exclusive.
guess im off home to remove my drives then….hope a replacement site pops up soon!
Nothing wrong with elitism. Keeps the trash out.
Oh A sad day…..
Bye bye OINK
May the Pig phoenix rise.
The cops were really pissed about UK Garage being renamed.
Today is a very very sad day. My thoughts are with you admins.
Anyone know of a temporary irc channel or something?
can someone give me an invite to OiNk please?
OiNK.cd - because music industry just doesn’t work right.
It is a sad day for music.
they can’t catch osama bin laden, but man they are really going after people who love music, but hate the industry. i’m so glad all my tax money is going to busting computer people, those computers are so complicated n@ they must be dangerous…
Oh , the very sad day for P2P comunity
#75 irc.dal.net #oink
Oh no, a dude that was profiting (yes, that’s right) from pointing peeps to copyright infringing works gets busted.
Good, I’m glad because whilst I think the movie/music studios make stupid amounts of money from us and ought to be ashamed of themselves you can’t correct that “wrong” by doing another.
So sad that people have lost the ability to tell right from wrong.
And it shows how “loyal” the “community” is when the first things they ask is if anyone knows of an “alternative”.
OiNK.cd - because music industry just doesn’t work right.
It is a sad day for music.
Well you create a closed community like this and someone is gonna get pissed and report you.
fuckers fucking fuckers…
sorry to use profanities but damn, oink.cd rawked fo sho. \m/
thanks to the admin willing to take the can for all us ppl.
BiG RESPECT TO YOUZE. THANKS FOR ALL THE JOY YOU’VE BOUGHT TO MY FRIENDS AND i.
Man this really sucks. I hate em.
[quote comment="193028"]The moderators where arrogant. You visit the IRC for help you get kicked. The site op’s often asked for donations, and make a profit from file sharing of music.
To me, it servers him right. He was doing something illegal, even worse making money out of P2P.[/quote]
They never asked for money. Learn your shit before you start talking our of your ass like the reports are.
I cant say Im too bothered. It was good but the users were so self righteous. Their way or the highway. I was having a tough enough time getting a decent ratio without them on my back. It just goes against the idea of a community really. I especially didnt like the zero tolerance of free stuff, even if it was disappearing off the net!
Give them a few months to match everyone up IP Address with ISPs, Donations, etc and you’ll see a glut of people being sent nasty law suit action letters strong arming for money.
This is going to be cash cow for them (pun intended).
Eh, closed trackers come and go. That’s basically the way things happen these days. The only stable thing around seems to be, unsurprisingly, TPB… well that and eztvefnet.org, they’re cool.
I’m kinda thinking that a more sustainable model for warezing would be to have more specialized communities rather than one big private one which the likes of demonoid etc. are seeming to want to become. With piles of public trackers and DHT this sort of thing might work… if it weren’t for control freaks thinking that ratio enforcement is gonna matter at all (I’ve had a 25-meg download from demonoid open for like three days now, it’s coming down at an astounding 0.4 KiB/s on average…)
R.I.P
oink
:(
For one they cannot go after his paypal account cause its donations.
and the reason why the pirate bay did not get fully shut down cause there copyright law is diffrent then in other countries, remember the raid, read about it before askin weired ?.. and its not ilegal to host .torrent files on a website its ilegal to host the acutal copywrite movies/mps/etc on the servers. most sites just index torrent files. which is fully legal to do.
hence these sites still around
To the anonymous asshole complaining about private trackers, supporting piracy and his lack of invitations.
Remember, for every one that goes down, 5 more come up, usually ones of decent regard as well.
Thank you Tier 4 and 5 and may you provide us with a new stream once an adequate sponsor is available again.
http://www.oink.cd
“The website http://www.oink.cd is currently offline.”
What’s going on?
People who claim he profited from it are idiots..
A site as massive as that, cost a lot more to run than they’d ever get out of voluntary donations
why are people still choosing to host websites in their native countries or in US/Europe, why not shell out for the security garunteed with hosting in Russia/Sweden
To those posting bitching comments I am sad to see that whilst taking part in the general warez scene you have never learnt what it was about.
A very sad day, I do wonder if there is some kind of back up plan to get the server up again, they were always thinking and moving these guys.
I will say R.I.P until we can join again ;)
The mdoerators shouldn’t have insisted that only illegal stuff be put up. I couldn’t even upload software without a crack. Now thats bad
I agree, warez sites should be about preservation and avoiding filling up your house with useless bits of plastic and cardboard.
let the virus’s decedend upon those who dare cross us(IFPI, BPI and the Dutch and English Police)!!!
A cute policeman is a must. Preferrably a stuffed one.
If you need one, ask for the copyright department.
Sucked in. Elitist garbage like this is no better than RIAA anyway and I’m pleased these fuckers are out of action.
I seriously have to wonder if IFPI won’t get DDoS’d like RIAA etc. did when they started in on all the raids etc.
I certainly hope someone slams the living shit outta their servers for the next 2 months. Maybe even juice up actual bandwidth cost allocation instead…
[quote comment="193099"]let the virus’s decedend upon those who dare cross us(IFPI, BPI and the Dutch and English Police)!!![/quote]
Viruses are so last week. They do more damage to real people than big organisations anyway. I’m gonna go play a bit of pro evo and forget this stupid invention they call the internet. I only got it to download old cartoons anyway
we’re gonna win this battle people… the record companies are afraid of us
It’s 1’s and 0’s people….
my tail is no longer curled :(
The website http://www.oink.cd you are trying to visit is unreachable.
For reasons please visit news channels on google or related.
everyone visit http://www.riaa.com and click refresh. let’s ddos them with our anger :)
Quit complaining about the elitism you attribute to Oink. If this wasn’t a private tracker, this would have happened a lot sooner.
]:
LEADERS / FEEDERS / SEEDERS
and the chasing BLEEDERS
It’s funny how most of the flame jobs on here sound more like scorned little brats who didn’t get their candy. It’s a private community for a reason, and that reason is you.
I loved Oink, was proud to be one of it’s members, and will definitely feel the loss. The bright side of it is, no matter how many sites they try to take down, no matter how many people they try to sue, we will never stop. It just won’t happen. Unless you decide to take down the net, or make it so unattractive and controlled that people just ditch it altogether and get back to analog life again, we will always be here….sharing with eachother. Until you get it right.
There is a right way to do this. I’ll give you a hint. I paid $26 american for the new radiohead album online. Why don’t you “people” in the industry pay attention to that, you might learn something.
see you again soon oinkers.
It’s funny how most of the flame jobs on here sound more like scorned little brats who didn’t get their candy. It’s a private community for a reason, and that reason is you.
I loved Oink, was proud to be one of it’s members, and will definitely feel the loss. The bright side of it is, no matter how many sites they try to take down, no matter how many people they try to sue, we will never stop. It just won’t happen. Unless you decide to take down the net, or make it so unattractive and controlled that people just ditch it altogether and get back to analog life again, we will always be here….sharing with eachother. Until you get it right.
There is a right way to do this. I’ll give you a hint. I paid $26 american for the new radiohead album online. Why don’t you “people” in the industry pay attention to that, you might learn something.
see you again soon oinkers.
Poor Alan.
Here’s some useful legal advice…. as I hacked your PC a few years ago (remember that?) how can the police prove it was you doing anything from that PC and not me? ;)
Why does a great site like OiNK die and some Nazi-infested scumhole like Pedro’s gets to live? Such is life….
P.S. Alan busted and not TMT…. Why just the good guy and not his arrogant cocky sidekick in the stocks?
It’s amazing that how many bitter people are glad this happened . . they’re rather have the corporations n shit over a little elitism and shitloads of good music.
While I was not a 0iNK user, sad to see another site taken down but once again, as I’ve stated before, TPB has an excellent thing going that for some reason people are NOT taking advantage, PRQ.SE, why don’t all torrent sites use this for hosting?….to me it just seems to make complete sense, get hosted by PRQ, have the backing of TPB crew and “security” that they bring, I know for damn sure if I was to set up a torrent site, I’d be hosting it there and not worry abt it…I mean c’mon…Am I the only one that see’s sense in this option?
Oh my god! They killed Kenny… You bastard!!
RIP Oink :( , we’ll keep downloading anyway, no matter what, twice as much as before.
If you put off alot more people than you serve because you want to be elite then don’t act surprised when everyone cheers when you get fucked over.
Hip Hip Horaah!! Die you elitist fuckers!!
have you noticed the rhetorical misinformation disseminated by the ‘news’ and authorities. They’ve said you had to show access to pre-released material to join. They call it a “closed criminal network”. They imply we paid to be a part of it.
What about the closed network of authority the public pays to enforce their wishes? Oh wait, thats taxes and police…
Please don’t take bittorrent down, tha t would just be disastrous for any person who likes entertainment.
As i’m sure it’s been said before, what about all the hardcore drug dealers? Oh yeah, because that would mean the chance of getting hurt where instead they can arrest a nice safe man who is doing no harm at all, just creating a community.
[quote comment="193115"]Poor Alan.
Here’s some useful legal advice…. as I hacked your PC a few years ago (remember that?) how can the police prove it was you doing anything from that PC and not me? ;)
Why does a great site like OiNK die and some Nazi-infested scumhole like Pedro’s gets to live? Such is life….
P.S. Alan busted and not TMT…. Why just the good guy and not his arrogant cocky sidekick in the stocks?[/quote]
hehe..Still can’t let go of your feud with Pedro’s, can you FiH? LOL…Sorry to see you still have not gotten a life after all these years. ROFLMAO
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html
[quote comment="192992"]www.stmusic.org[/quote]
they are hosted on leaseweb the same as oink so god knows how much longer they’ll last
heard of them but I rarely download music. I personally don’t see the logic in spending 2yrs on an investigation and probably millions of dollars just to take down a site that inevitably will cause the surge in members to look elsewhere and make some other site famous and make it reach the status of the one fallen. The corporations bitch about how they lose money, which i’m sure they do, but it seems like they lose way more money trying to investigate, bribe, and prosecute people who will never be able to pay restitution. The problem lies within their strategy. They need a new one cause torrents and technology ain’t going anywhere.
These old corporate cronies are seeing their grasp on the public dwindling and are in a panic so they do what CORPORATIONS do best…SUE! It makes me sick cause they act like they have been on the straight and narrow ever since they started…PLEASE! Corporate scandals have been all the rage over the last 5-10yrs with their greedy fingers in the cookie jar finding ways to cheat taxes and all the other greedy tactics. HYPOCRITES!
[quote comment="193124"]hehe..Still can’t let go of your feud with Pedro’s, can you FiH? LOL…Sorry to see you still have not gotten a life after all these years. ROFLMAO[/quote]
Still working on getting the EU domain. Don’t worry, if the RIAA scum don’t get Pedro’s I will ;)
The whiners complaining about elitism are usually the ones who hit and run on the sites and are banned for various site violations. Look folks, according to current law dissemenation of copyrighted materials without permission is illegal. So, what is your problem with those who take the risks, certainly not yourselves, who have decided to mitigate these risks by instituting a invite only system? It is not elite, it is smart. I am sure it was one of you haters that probably tipped off the authorities. That’s usually the case.
[quote comment="193000"]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.[/quote]
your an idiot, thats why it was so good
It’s surely a sad day for music! Oink was great and introduced me to loads of new bands.
Sad news.
O found the site gone around 4:30AM (EST) last night. The wierd thing is the trackers seem to be still up as one of my downloads is still running as i type this and others were uploading hours after the site came down. Hope they have a backup somewhere that wasn’t found yet. If not just wait a few months and they’ll be 100’s of new piggies.
P.s. demoinoid is still up and is a great alternative but i have to use the proxy site to get in.
We will miss you deeply OiNK. :(
[quote comment="193000"]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.[/quote]
I agree, good riddance!
oh yeah
whatever happened to good ol fashioned p2p software
Soulseek is still running fine
The people saying it was elitist confuse me. It wasn’t very hard to find an invite to this site at all if you did a bit of asking around, I had 6 invites available before they shut it down. The standards and rules may have been a bit taxing for some (most of my mates were kicked off for crappy ratios) but those rules helped keep it a high quality goldmine for music.
The way it’s being reported as a pay to leech site is a bit off. I bet these guys made bugger all off donations once they’d paid all the server overheads.
RIP Oink.cd I for one will miss you.
Elitist fuckers? …Probabbly :-D
It wasn’t that much effort in to get an invite, was it? Loved OiNK, good luck guys.
Copy of complaint sent to BBC about their article on the OiNK closure/arrests….
This article is factually corrupt and devoid of any journalism. It has simply repeated points from an IFPI press release ( http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html ) as facts without any attempt to verify their validity. The IFPI is representing the claims of an embattled and outdated recording industry and therefore its claims should be taken with a pinch of salt as it has its own goals and agendas which the BBC is blindly advocating.
Examples of factual inaccuracies :-
“”Members paid ‘donations’ via debit or credit cards, ensuring their continued access to the site.”"
Incorrect, there was no pressure at all on members of the site to donate, and users would not lose their accounts if they did not. By far the majority of the 180000 ish registered users had not donated.
“Users were only invited to join the site if they could prove that they had music to offer, according to an IFPI spokesman.”
Incorrect, there was no pre-requisite for joining the site other than receiving an invite from an existing user.
“He said: “They were encouraged to distribute recordings in the torrent file format with other OiNK members, and have to keep posting such music to the site to maintain their membership.”"
Incorrect, users do not need to post music to maintain their membership. The site worked on a ’share and share alike’ principle (ratio) where for every X MB of data downloaded, Y MB of data would have to be uploaded. For the layman, the more music you take, the more you have to share back to other users.
“”Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found further down the illegal online supply chain.”"
Misleading, digital music sharing isn’t like taking out the source of a drug supply chain. Because people are simply trading information there are hundreds of sources and destinations, to imply that by taking out OiNK the supply chain has been cut is incorrect.
I would like to make an official complaint about the poor journalism shown in this article. I resent reading recording industry propaganda represented as fact.
I was a member for years, never paid a dime, never uploaded a pre-release album, just maintained a 1:1 ratio by uploading when I needed to. To me, they were good people, and gave me access to a lot… so so much good music I could never have got access to otherwise. Oink was practically a public service…with a ratio demand. I wonder if anything else will ever compare, or were these golden days of high quality obscure albums…
yeah the rules gave the torrents unbeatable quality. where else could you find 6 month old torrent still seeded to full capacity
the only rule i didnt get was the ‘cute avatar’ rule :\
A very very sad day. I have widened my musical taste considerably from Oink, and owe Oink and TMT etc much gratitude. I’m really gonna miss it.
from hungary!
Goddamn!
Oink made me discover so much new music. I actually bought quite some stuff that I got off Oink because it was so good. You never hear that in the media don’t ya?
[quote comment="193065"]The cops were really pissed about UK Garage being renamed.[/quote]
Lol mate :D
[quote comment="193115"]Poor Alan.
Here’s some useful legal advice…. as I hacked your PC a few years ago (remember that?) how can the police prove it was you doing anything from that PC and not me? ;)
Why does a great site like OiNK die and some Nazi-infested scumhole like Pedro’s gets to live? Such is life….
P.S. Alan busted and not TMT…. Why just the good guy and not his arrogant cocky sidekick in the stocks?[/quote]
*hugs flacinhell
hahaha it’s fun to see all the jealous people who never got invited, YOU GUYS MISSED OUT HAHAHA SUCKS FOR YOU, oink could not be compared to demonoid or piratebay it was in its own league…
Life is over.
Well, those complaining they couldn’t get on Oink never had one anyway.
awwww no. i’d been a member for 3 months and believe me, it’s difficult to see the hype until you’ve been on the site, it really was the most amazing torrent site i’d ever been on with access to pretty much everything i could ever want.
fortunately, there are so many other amazing torrent sites out there, i just need to get my hands on some invites for some of them :)
BBC Radio 1 report had a claim from a BPI Goon that the OINK admin made hundreads of thousands of pound from the site…. mmmhhhh sounds like more BPI bull to me BUT if it’s true, I have zero sympathy…
I guess thats what the BPI wants to achive by spreading such shite around!
LOL @ 142!!
Sad Sad Day….
This sucks!
Any thoughts about what’s going to happen to Oink’s users?
Sad day for the community and for the good music
[quote comment="193148"]A very very sad day. I have widened my musical taste considerably from Oink, and owe Oink and TMT etc much gratitude. I’m really gonna miss it.[/quote]
With you on that.
not happy oink was the best at what it did. not shit rar files or 120 bitrates. hope they will be back in some form.
what are the implications for users?
as if he made hundreds of thousands! really?! the only income the site got was donations, there were no ads, nothing. with 180,000 users they reckon he got that much money? what a crock of bollocks.
im glad oink is gone. i couldent get an invite. at least wtih sites like demonoid u had a chance.
Good luck Alan
Poor guy
life as i know it is OVER.
you could get an invite if you tried. there was a post on a public forrum requesting invites. many people asked and recieved. not hard at all to keep up a good ratio. I have not been with oink more than 8 days and my ratio topped 4.0.
should we not just choose a replacement site and try and recreate oink over there?
what’s indietorrents like?
I just met my roommate… he had Oink and I like music so he gave me an invite. Whats elitist about that?
[quote comment="193050"]Damn! This is such a shame.
I don’t think there was any tracker that could compete in terms of volume of house music. Anybody have any other recommendations?[/quote]
try http://www.trancetraffic.com
man i’m so sorry oink. i hope to see you again.
In my opinion, the music industry should learn from oink how to properly distribute their products.
If they’d sell music with proper quality and service without lame restrictions, they’d get far more money.
But no, they rather waste money on taking sites down, that come back in form of a new site anyways, instead of spending it on improving their service and quality of their products.
Whatever, those braindead hypocrits will never learn anyways :f
155 Oct 23, 2007 at 14:46 by markQuote mark
im glad oink is gone. i couldent get an invite. at least wtih sites like demonoid u had a chance.
thats why it was so good keeping people like you out
This ruined my month
nice work. Sorry that kid had too get into so much trouble, but the entertainment industry is loosing billions because of people like him, who are just trying to give stuff away free.
nice thought but if he was the one loosing money, he would not be so willing to give it away.
This is just sad.
Where will I get Leopard now?!
the biggest lost since audiogalaxy
I lol’ed.
Although Alan is a bastard I hope he’ll be ok. Good luck to TmT and the rest….
The record industry will never win.. OiNK was amazing (my source for international music), and the pissed of community will surely start another one. Just remember to send me an invite when that happens!!
GRR so damn close to christmas when they have the no dl limit :(
Don’t give up people, OiNK in a new shape will most certainly appear soon enough. They may have shut down the tracker, but so far there are still tens of thousands of enthusiastic resourceful sharers who need to find a new place. This is just a minor set-back.
Join the Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6774127060&ref=mf
Um so…if you guys were law enforcement and…you know…raided servers and like arresting people…think about this-
Article says they confiscated/raided the servers a week ago. If you were all into arresting people, wouldn’t you keep the servers up (like the article says) to track such vital things as traffic, information and any number of other things?
My guess is they had the servers in their possession and turned on for a week, monitoring all the traffic and letting people continue to do stuff…all the while taking down a list of names and recording data.
Kinda wishing I wasn’t at work now and was at home wiping my hd…
someone needs to do this:
1) Set up a torrent tracker exactly like oink was
2) charge a monthly subscription fee based on GB downloaded
3) allocate the revenue to the labels (or a copyright collection agency) pro-rata based on the amount each artist is downloaded…
this ruined my life
Too bad. But I am not surprised. Rumours about Oink being under close scrutiny by the cops and org’s like IFPI has been going on for quite a while now. And it’s only natural that they would go after the biggest torrent site available. I bet the Oink folks have taken this under consideration and planned accordingly. I wonder where their hotsite is. The media has reported the servers in Amsterdam where confiscated. I don’t know about the laws in the Netherlands - will they get away with that?
As far as for individual users, I don’t think they have anything to fear. They got what they wanted when they closed down the site. That creates alot less badwill in common peoples eyes than when they file lawsuits against kids.
[quote comment="193074"]Oh no, a dude that was profiting (yes, that’s right) from pointing peeps to copyright infringing works gets busted.
Good, I’m glad because whilst I think the movie/music studios make stupid amounts of money from us and ought to be ashamed of themselves you can’t correct that “wrong” by doing another.
So sad that people have lost the ability to tell right from wrong.
And it shows how “loyal” the “community” is when the first things they ask is if anyone knows of an “alternative”.[/quote]
Whats your sources on him actually profiting from this? IFPIs press release?
I want facts, not bitching, and especially none of those bullshit lies coming from the authorities that usually surround busts like this.
As far as we know, he was barely making even each month paying for the hosting.
Blah blah.
Im sad. :(
Is this suppose to stop piracy?
Absolutely gutted by the news! The hard work and dedication that was put into the site was a testiment to just how good Oink was. A very sad day, however beasts like this just dont die!
This news wont have come as a suprise to anyone, especially the admins. It will only be a matter of time (probably days) before all those trackers are back online under another guise / server location.
I think it was time they rebranded anyway. Pink was so last season! ;-)
OiNK.cd was more of a warez operation than a filesharing site where friends swap files for fun. they hosted content on seed servers, the staff were active to obtain and release 0-day content, and membership was by selective entry invitation only. it all points to criminal conspiracy to supply copyright material
OiNK.cd will be missed by me and all the filesharing music lovers who appreciated the depth, breadth, and quality of the content. i feel for Alan and his Dad and his Boss and his m8s who are all today sitting in the crapolla. is gonna be a long time ’til the nitemare is over for them
i doubt very much if OiNK.cd kept any logs and a donation does not link you to a criminal conspiracy. the police will find everything they need on the seed servers, the rest they will have already gathered from infiltration of the site. the OiNK.cd membership can relax, go find another quality site. but this time guys, choose to build a filesharing site and not a warez site
h33t.com says if you enjoy the content then support the authors and buy it