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…
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are users in the UK more likely to get busted then in the states?
@272
any other cops reading this?
Don’t you get it #272…..??? IT is illegal because people like you get brainwashed by the corrupt industry, and don’t dare to think by themselves.
Ask the artists when are really valued by the industry and for how long?
Why the hell do you people bother to torrent music anyways? it’s usually small enough in .mp3 or other lossless format that it’s not need, slsk is still the tightest music p2p out there and has been semi-abandoned since people got this ass backwards idea in their head that torrenting music was the way to go
it wasn’t just an elitist tracker that listed popular stuff, that’s why I’m sad.
Through that site, which was public when I went there, I heard ella fitzgerald, mingus, davis, coltrane, monk, rollins, bach, borodine, handel, moondog, old 50s and 60s stuff, j pop and tom waits for the first time.
Oink was where I learnt about music. Before I browsed there I’d never heard of anything I didn;t grow up with or heard on soundtracks or from my parents.
No where else I know has that range and so many good seeders. Oink, if you joined early enough or had an invite, wasn’t just a tracker, but a whole music lesson and I owe a lot to them for giving me access to stuff I would have never heard of, let alone bought, otherwise in my little bubble called home.
best news this year tosser elitest site…….bring back real sharing not that crapola
[quote comment="193012"]while your sitting here complaining you out to be cleaning the evidence off your hdds.
crybabies.[/quote]
And you “out” to be re-learning the English.
Dumbshit.
#279, same here. =(
[quote]Is he still with Samantha?[/quote]
iirc it ended a long while back
[quote]And do you know who the big megacorp he was working for was?[/quote]
Don’t know. Didn’t think tees.ac.uk fed that many MNCs but I guess you lives and learns!
hahaha @ pigkiller and think a little bit ..
for 1. i am by no means a cop …
and thnk a little bit sounds like an old hippie … it’s the establishment man thats dragging you down …. fight the man …
lets say you work your ass off to put out a product so yopu can earn yourself a living and when its all finished some assfuck comes in and starts handing it all away for free
and you make nothing for it …i guess thats ok to you … where do you work i am coming to get your paycheck seeing as you think it’s ok to work for nothing
@284
yes. poor lars ulrich.
he needs another boat.
278
STFU AND DIE…you must have got kiked ro banned ro nver invired cause you SUCK!
I fucking loved OINK. This is the end of the world to me… :’(
REVOLT! REVOLT LITTLE PIGGIES! THE TIME HAS COME FOR BATTLE!!!!!!
Unsubstantiated rumour:
Pedro from Pedro’s Tracker has been paid off. Site was down earlier today for “system maintenance”. Source tells me this was because he has handed over the server to the RIAA under their Polish equivalent to catch the top uploaders and also stop himself doing time picking up soap.
Sort of a similar thing to what happened with LokiTorrent a few years back.
Timing of server maintenance along with this OiNK raid seems very puzzling, and Pedro is one of those pay-for-ratio sites that will attract attention.
Also note that all members now (according to official rules) have to supply an active working email address at all times.
Perhaps this is timed to catch out those who drift over from OiNK - i.e. grab their IP/email details from OiNK webserver… look at live data on Pedro’s server which they now own to find a correlation - and catch the top uploaders in the act?
Person gets in serious trouble with history of sharing across multiple sites, and also being busted whilst your torrent client is running has practically no defence.
I’m sad, what a thing to wake up to this morning.
Typical FiH..
turning this story into something about himself & his pathetic feud with Pedro’s.
You were banned from Oink for being an asshole..just about the time you supposedly hacked Pedros database & gave all the email address’s to the Polish equivalent of the RIAA.
[quote comment="193030"][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.[/quote]
On Dalnet
Putting a phone number on the oink.cd entry on dnsstuff prolly didnt help
If you downloaded then uploaded the same material, or uploaded material that you had previously downloaded and you did not have the original material then the copyright act cannot touch you.
Under the act you had to be given the copyright notice before you are bound by it. No one has ever been prosecuted in the UK for downloading. The only hope they have is that you have bought a CD, ripped it and uploaded it. The answer is to rip it, give it to a friend and get him to upload it, then get his material and upload it.
Then they have to prove that the tracker really was what it says it was. When you downloaded Pink, did you download a corpyrighted song or was it a singing pig? Where’s the proof?
Basically don’t worry, you have more chance of being hit by a meteorite that being collared by the music nazi’s.
If you want to know more have a search on CDfreaks for copyright information - there is lots there to make you breath a sigh of relief.
What are the consequences of when you get the legal letters and you just tell them to go pound sand? They can’t sue you if they CAN’T SERVE YOU. I know! We tried to sue somebody once and we were until to get them served. The court told us that there was nothing we could do without getting them legally served.
272 Oct 23, 2007 at 16:51 by AnonymousQuote
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
Shut up you corporate little monkey. I’m sure most people contributing here have got jobs and you are obviously missing the point by going on a rant like this. Instead of sitting back and looking at the real issues that are behind this you use it as a means to vent your silly misguided frustration on a community that is blatantly much cleverer than you are! I suggest you go back to sucking corporate dick and leave us sensible people to get on with it.
[quote comment="193004"]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![/quote]
sure is if fags like you post it around
could someone send me a libble invitation? 36?
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