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.
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I would have thought they would have nifty button to press when something like this happens…And it would just delete all the data on the servers permanently…
@ 222
He meant seedboxes, which some of the more BitTorrent involved users had set up.
#222
a lot of people hosted their content on seedboxes, this was well known on oink.
Fu*king ‘ell! It was one of the greatest site’s reg. music and app’s, and now a couple of twat-organisations ruined it all!! I hope they will burn in ‘ell for this! Well I guess it’s just to buy another external hd and copy everything and then wipe the old one. OiNK’s PP… R.I.P.
[quote comment="193271"]FlacInHell:
How big is the risk of getting the police at my door?
:/
Do they bother at all?[/quote]
Unless you were a moderator or admin there I am pretty certain you’re safe.
The 2 moderators I most respected were Dragonnn and Jiggaz, they were US based so unless the FBI/CIA gets in on it too they should be OK.
Keep your media (MP3’s/FLACs etc) but perhaps delete your torrent files and OiNK bookmarks - then of course do a wipedisk to clear deleted areas of your hard drive.
Seems they are making a bullshit money connection here (i.e. implying OiNK was for profit) so following the money it will only lead to Alan. They only need to get Alan - however I admit I won’t shed a tear if I find out TMT gets busted too.
I always remember members pleading in IRC not to be banned, or to be reinstated…. some members offered to donate - admins always told them to f**k off as money doesn’t buy bandwidth - great rules at OiNK, shame the mainstream media is twisting it all - but hey, what’s new?
in a bit you thieving dickheads
[quote comment="193264"][quote comment="193250"]yo flacinhell
who are you? you seem to know an awful lot about oink…
ripoink[/quote]
I’m the one-man comedy team that used to continually rip the piss out of Pedro’s Nazi Tracker, hack them and make them look very silly.
I managed to successfully see that they finally removed racist policies such as the banning of Hip-Hop music, and that some of the moderators actually became human beings.
A recent win was getting their btmusic.org domain taken down - but despite my best efforts the site remains.
Me & OiNK always had a good communication during my actions against Pedro’s. We had a mutual hatred of the place and especially the admin and his henchman.
I got given around 100 invites once by OiNK to hand out to people via my blog, and I never ever mentioned OiNK on my blog as from day 1 it was clear this was FiH vs Pedros, not FiH vs Torrent Sites.
I helped the early quality lossless scene at OiNK devlop, and I used to blatantly “steal” torrents from Pedro’s after they implemented their Nazi “don’t upload our torrents on over sites” rule.
However - my name was (and no doubt still is) dirt mainly due to Pedro idiots continually causing issues on OiNK just because I was fucking with their site…. Thus I saw to it that my official presence at OiNK was banned ;)
Still, Pedros survives as a buy-your-ratio site (something OiNK definitely wasn’t) and pays for the Vodka supply of Pedro, the idiot in Poland who runs it.
Of course, we cannot forget Frieden… his German accomplice….. who had the ingenious idea of scanning all the money trails/home addresses related to the murkey events behind the scenes at Pedros…. I soon got hold of these and made them public ;)[/quote]
pardon the ignorance but im not exactly sure what the whole “pedro” fiasco is. is there a wiki page on this or can you explain further?
thanks dude
ripoink
This is terrible )=
But I didn’t upload / download anything. Someone else must be using my wireless network!
OINK was evil. Because they were a small inbred community it was nigh unto impossible to seed a 1:1 ratio, in which case you would be banned if you didn’t. There would be like all seeders and NO leechers. Also you could get banned if you refused to have a cutsy utsy Avatar of some stuffed animal. Too many rules, not enough heart. Very selfish. So I say MOOO! because OINK is dead and no longer sounds right! Long live Moo.
Oink admin get BANNED from their own tracker. Serves them right for banning so many others for stupid things. EG. if you even questioned their authoritar on anything you’d get banned, no reason given. They were worse than any other private tracker.
This is karma. What goes around, comes around.
A big f.u. to the admin and everyone who bent over for them. I hope he rots in jail. It’s his turn to bend over now.
this news is worse than 4chan
Question, was the raid performed while he was sleeping or something? If he saw police cars and what not, or even a warning about it…Couldn’t he have put the whole server under “whipeout” mode and deleted everything in sight…Sure they would still have proof from the person that tip’d them off, but still I am pretty sure most of the user base would be a lot safer…
What happens if I get a legal letter and I write “Go fuck yourself you cocksuckers” and simply mail it back to them? And then they mail me another letter, and I do it again? And then they send me another one and then I go to them with a gun and let it loose on everyone and then do myself in? Wouldn’t that be hilarious? I think we should all do that. Get a gun and start going off on people who sue you. That will teach them not to sue people for downloads. It won’t be worth the risk going after crazy people just for a stupid music download.
FUCK THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if i was able to keep my ratio, almost everyone can. stop crying idiots
It’s a shame it went down.
I went there for deleted and rare stuff. Always found it, had good speeds because people shared and kept their ratio up, unlike unmetered public trackers…
As far as exclusivity, I found them when they were public, they didn’t start off as private.
I didn’t use the site much, in fact just recently I found that my account was deleted as I hadn’t been there for a long time. And the admin was nice enough to give me an invite to rejoin.
How’s that elistist or arrogant?
I was there when it was public and heaps of people had a 20gb download/5kb upload. being invite only was just to keep out the people that never seeded and were kicked.
[quote comment="193291"]OINK was evil. Because they were a small inbred community it was nigh unto impossible to seed a 1:1 ratio, in which case you would be banned if you didn’t. There would be like all seeders and NO leechers. Also you could get banned if you refused to have a cutsy utsy Avatar of some stuffed animal. Too many rules, not enough heart. Very selfish. So I say MOOO! because OINK is dead and no longer sounds right! Long live Moo.[/quote]
Amen brother. Long live real p2p.
A good site doesn’t need Nazi style admins to be good.
GET THIS: Every Christmas they would allow free torrents. One year someone asked early for this and they cancelled the free torrents for that Christmas. Like WTF.
to flacinhell:
Would you mind sharing a link to your blog? oink was my life and i am devastated right now..i need some hope
Notice that the enemy will have to lie, lie, lie to get this one to go through:
“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.”
Um, maybe I’ve misunderstood bitorrent, but um, they aren’t posted online, are they? They are just on peoples’ computers, and those computers are connected through an information pack (read “tracker file”)
I would throttle the pessimism. In the long run these media brothels and their whores are obsolete, and doomed therefore.
you’re nicked!
[quote comment="193303"]Notice that the enemy will have to lie, lie, lie to get this one to go through:
“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.”
Um, maybe I’ve misunderstood bitorrent, but um, they aren’t posted online, are they? They are just on peoples’ computers, and those computers are connected through an information pack (read “tracker file”)
I would throttle the pessimism. In the long run these media brothels and their whores are obsolete, and doomed therefore.[/quote]
nicely said
Fockin A…
As long as it stays on music I should be good, most of my dls were crap like at&t voice programs and msoft shite, would kinda suck to get sued over a recording of every countries national anthem
What about this idea?
http://aerugohissings.com/foroink/
[quote comment="193302"]to flacinhell:
Would you mind sharing a link to your blog? oink was my life and i am devastated right now..i need some hope[/quote]
Well I closed it. Started to waste too much time on it and having all comments open (I wasn’t going to resort to Pedros tactics of closing debate) I used to get pissed off cleaning up 200 “FiH is a fag” spam messages each day.
Also the Pedro’s members were kind of like the Proles in Orwell’s 1984… they knew they lived under such a shitty rule over there - but didn’t want to do anything or felt they couldn’t. Basically anything about morals, respect or the right thing to do was unimportant to them as long as they could get their tunez…..
This is why file sharing keeps getting a hit, because nobody stands up for what is right - why isn’t there 200 or so OiNK users in the Northeast (UK) region standing outside the police station where Alan is shouting for his release?
You know why?
Cause nobody gives a fuck as long as they can get their tunes….
The most some people ever put into P2P is some upload bandwidth and perhaps a nice upload package and some forum help….
Well…I agree with plenty of what has been said here. It is a sad day and there is absolutely no other site that contains as much music at such good quality. It does make me quite angry actually. This is all about money (as is 90% of what goes on in the world) and OiNK was clearly not making much cash from this. Once again it is the corporate fucking wankers who are acting out of greed and an attempt to curb freedom. These TWATS want everyone to abide to their own anal rules and conform to their ’society’. Which basically means the corporate fat cats using money and the law to maintain their superior position while the rest of us scrap about on minimum wage, eat shit food and buy chart albums for £12.99. Fuck this.
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