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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A fucking terrible weekend.
First 4chan goes down (back up!), then I wake up today to find OiNK gone?
OiNK was the best music related website I’d ever been on. It was a better place to find out about music than any record shop. The userbase was friendly, and the quality was second to none.
OiNK is dead, long live OiNK.
FUCK i just trew up because im so mad.
does anyone want to open up an oink forum on a free hosting site or should i do it?
we need some community without oink
Without torrents, I would not have purchased 9/10 albums that I have purchased in the last few months. A war is coming. I can feel it. Long Live The King of Trackers, OiNK.
we should start with facebook and take it from there.
[quote comment="193204"]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
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Absolute bullshit!! The speeds might have seemed like they were hosted on seed servers, because in reality hundreds ( even thousands) of ordinary users were seeding away on their home adsl connections, and staff *never* actively obtained 0day content.
Oinky has enough troubles without idiots like you spreading bullshit.
He never made a dime from the site, it cost a shitload to run as well. Unlike some other private trackers we were never pay to leech/pay for gigs.
Good luck Al.
ex-mod
holy shit this is big :S, demonoid its down too :S this is fucking going down
MUCHOS HIJUEPUTAS
Now I feel old…
Oink is no more. Truly a sad day. Fuck the music-industry in their ivory-towers.
To the worriers, somebody posted this on Digg and it makes sense: “I doubt they authorities (cops/record industry) will go after all the Oink users, logistically that would be almost impossible (the RIAA is in the news when they send a couple dozen subpoenas out, can you imagine trying to issue 200,000?). If I had to guess, I’d say that they will either go after people who uploaded specific advance recordings, or a specific few of the top uploaders with terabytes uploaded.”
[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]
Hey people, the ones who are doing wrong are the ones changing the law to hurt the most of the society, and benefiting the “mafia” of big corporations who don’t give a damn about the artists we love.
This is not about if oink’s going down is sad or not, it is about realizing how those corporations want to control us, control the prices, and make us believe WE ARE CRIMINALS! WE who work day to day, and don’t have the money to buy expensive lawyers to fight back.
We can fight back by giving pressure to our government telling them WE DON’T LIKE THOSE COPYRIGHT LAWS and we want to change the LAW created to benefit “Miss Disney and many other giant corporations.
If I didn’t do any uploading and only downloaded stuff, should I be concerned? What if a lot of those downloads were pre-release albums?
as far as i know
downloading copyright material is not illegal
its uploading it that is, that is if you got caught.
but in order to function with OINK AT ALL, you would have to upload at least a little
Wow, you guys are being such assholes. The only reason OiNK had donations is to support all the heavy visitor rate at all time… There was like at least 20,000 people on the website 24/7, either torrenting/chat/forum, and all that adds up to heavy bandwidth usage if the site literally never has no one on.
Also, realize that Demonoid and even Torrent Leech are accepting donations, you don’t seem to have a problem with that.
A cute policeman is a must. Preferrably a stuffed one.
If you need one, ask for the copyright department.
i am still downloading off oink lol
and I dont smell bacon either
time for encrypted networks, maybe freenet?
from http://aerugohissings.com/foroink/
The mass of quality content on that tracker was just amazing, and that was the main reason for why Oink was a target. However, all of that content is still available, and well seeded. What it is lacking at the moment, is a tracker.
$10 that The Pirate Bay will offer to host it free of charge for em.
Well, I think (I’m sure, actually), OiNK won’t die. It will rebirth in some way.
The point is that IFPI are fucking morons and they should be exterminated.
I guess all i can really say is R.I.P. oink.
demoniod is not down u moron post number 254 get ur facts straight
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
all you crybabies .. you all were doing something illegal and well it was caught!!!!
now most of you are crying over it ??? it doesnt matter what YOU think or how much YOU CRY .. it is still ILLEGAL …. so umm if all you cheap bastards can’t afford to go out and say buy your own music. then you shouldn’t CRY LIKE BABIES when your method of stealing it gets closed down. so maybe it’s time to get up off your fat asses go out and get a job and maybe you can afford to PAY for your music ..
maybe i should say it in term you will understand .. WAAAHHHHH WAHHHHHH WAHHH WAH WAHHHHHHHHHH
#277
i can tell you where not a member on oink and if you where you must have got banned…fooker! DIE!
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