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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Property is theft.
Die “Musician”.
Don’t wipe your drives.
Reseed content on a different tracker.
Intellectual property. Read up on it sometime.
You’re a douchebag, as well as a thief.
“You’ve lost the argument, and you know it.”
Hm. You say I’ve lost the argument, therefore I’ve lost the argument, even though you’ve STILL YET TO POST A VALID POINT OTHER THAN YOUR OPINION. Your logic is flawless.
“The musician is free to sign with whatever label he wants. He signs the paper freely that determines his royalty. Which is WAY more than “A cent or three” per record.”
Are you joking? As if getting signed to a label is as easy as that. Wow. Obviously you haven’t worked in music very long.
“Just because you call a sweet name like ’sharing’ doesn’t mean it isn’t what it is: stealing.”
Call it whatever you want. You can’t stop sharing.
“I suggest you stop stealing music. I guarantee you the war is on against music theft, and the artists are going to win it.”
“artists are going to win it”
“artists”
Don’t you mean “labels”?
And besides, I highly doubt that. By the way, post your opinion all you want. Your views don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. People will continue to share music. Go ahead and try to stop us.
“Friends sharing music for pleasure” should be made legal at some point. Artist should be worry if their album is not leak on the internet. This mean nobody cares about the artist or possibly they are crap artist. Look at 50 cents, still bling-bling although his cd is everywhere on the net. Like I said, “Friends sharing music for pleasure” should be made legal at some point. Distinguish between what kind of sharing is legal. Best for both party.
Hmm.. I wonder why the creator of those sharing scripts was not the anti-piracy club main target. Why the user.. why… crap..
So the cops sealed the leak in an illegal operation. You’ll pay a plumber $90 an hour to fix your sink but you won’t pay a musician for their life’s work which as a bonus brings you emotional enlightenment. Good on everyone who has said “good while it lasted”, that’s the only honest response, everyone else acting hard done by can eat it hard.
[quote comment="194139"]You’ve lost the argument, and you know it.
The musician is free to sign with whatever label he wants. He signs the paper freely that determines his royalty. Which is WAY more than “A cent or three” per record.
Just because you call a sweet name like ’sharing’ doesn’t mean it isn’t what it is: stealing.
I suggest you stop stealing music. I guarantee you the war is on against music theft, and the artists are going to win it.[/quote]
wow you must have a real hard time trying to make it as an artist. when you are using it as profit. successful artists make money because what they produce is worth that money. maybe doing ‘art’ isn’t your thing. go learn a trade, make some money so you can survive in this world, do ‘art’ as a hobby and appreciate it for yourself instead of thinking that whatever ‘art’ you produce deserves to be paid for.
[quote comment="194180"]Intellectual property. Read up on it sometime.
You’re a douchebag, as well as a thief.[/quote]
So bitter. Could it be that no one wants to download your intellectual property, even for free, “musician”?
Come on- come clean with us peons. What wedding band do you play with to pay the bills? Do you see yourself getting greyer each time you are forced to play “Every Breathe You Take”? Is that the secret impulse behind your jihad here? I hate to tell you, but you sound like a televangelist shilling for the majors.
BTW, does this mean that free leech this Xmas is definitely not going to happen at OPP? Can Alan clarify this for us? ;-)
Look moron, stop trying to rationalize your stealing by guessing at my lifestyle. I make an excellent living, full-time, in music. Something you’ll never do.
But feel free to keep digging yourself deeper, weasel.
[quote comment="194197"]Look moron, stop trying to rationalize your stealing by guessing at my lifestyle. I make an excellent living, full-time, in music. Something you’ll never do.
But feel free to keep digging yourself deeper, weasel.[/quote]
NO ONE LISTEN TO THIS GUY.
HE IS A TROLL.
THERE IS NO WAY ANY PERSON COULD EVER BE THIS INCREDIBLY DUMB.
Except you can’t defend the fact you steal music. From musicians. Money right out of their pocket.
You’re a thief and an enemy of art.
Just imagine someone illegally removed your ability to make profit from your line of work. They then hid this illegal act under the guise of “the community has a right to anything and everything for free”. Not really fair is it? Please stop using major label, already made it artists as examples of record label greed. This D/L style cheapening of art has nothing to do with them and everything to do with the artists that can’t afford to make their second album because everyone stole their first.
[quote comment="194200"]You’re a thief and an enemy of art.[/quote]
Wow. Haven’t you used this insult 3 other times?
You truly are an intellectual.
I respect you.
RIAA Juror: ‘We Wanted to Send a Message’
It took the jury in Capitol Records v. Thomas only five minutes to conclude 30-year-old Jammie Thomas infringed recording industry copyrights on 24 music tracks, according to the first juror to speak out on the verdict.
The remaining five hours of deliberation was spent debating the appropriate financial penalty.
At least two jurors, one of them a funeral home owner, wanted to award the Recording Industry Association of America the maximum $150,000 for each of the 24 copyright violations
The problem, mainly, is that the record companies have not adapted to the new model of internet-based music distribution. They continuously fight this technology when it is clearly here to stay; what the need to do is find a way to adapt. As long as one party is offering a product for free that another party is charging $15 for, people will always be around to choose the former. That’s just common sense. To fight that is to tilt at windmills.
RIP OiNK.
No, there just wasn’t any attempt to stop stealing until 2007. This is just the beginning for the zeros that steal music. The party’s over.
http://www.attributor.com
So where are the site’s other officials: Admins and mods? What do they have to say regarding the security of their users? Their attitude toward it would be a real watershed in the world of filesharing.
[quote comment="194197"]Look moron, stop trying to rationalize your stealing by guessing at my lifestyle. I make an excellent living, full-time, in music. Something you’ll never do.
But feel free to keep digging yourself deeper, weasel.[/quote]
I’m sure I’ve heard –or heard of– your music, somewhere, then. Perhaps it was in the background, somewhere. I’ll try to listen more closely when I hear the new CD by “musician” ;-)
If you are making such a good living, then why the hell do you care about a p2p site going down?
BTW, I’m a tenured college professor with teaching awards to my credit. I play music for fun. I work for a living. If someone bootlegged the book I’m shopping around (hard to imagine- its an academic tome), I’d probably dip into my notes and write another. Wouldnt be happy but I wouldnt cry like a bitch, or that academia and all learning was crumbling to a halt.
Apples and Oranges? Perhaps. But the corporate music industry has sold at topdollar a whole lot of nothing for decades now. I’ve worked in tech and in academia- if you are good, you will eventually be able to write your own ticket.
Music IS work, mind you. ANY artistic endeavor is work, because the payoff –beyond your own satisfaction– is dependant on factors beyond your control. Deal.
Like my students say, “Dont hate the player, hate the game” ;-) Try not to embarass yourself any further by buying into the myth that sharing music is killing music.
“Intellectual property” is a term invented by media lawyers, incidentally.
Art this. Art that. Art art art.
I am an annoying moron with no musical knowledge. I say “art” a lot to make me sound intellectual. Respect my opinions, which are facts.
Oh, someone made a valid point? I’ll just ignore it and post this message:
You’re a thief and an enemy of art.
[quote comment="194197"]Look moron, stop trying to rationalize your stealing by guessing at my lifestyle. I make an excellent living, full-time, in music. Something you’ll never do.
But feel free to keep digging yourself deeper, weasel.[/quote]
I’m sure I’ve heard –or heard of– your music, somewhere, then. Perhaps it was in the background, somewhere. I’ll try to listen more closely when I hear the new CD by “musician” ;-)
If you are making such a good living, then why the hell do you care about a p2p site going down?
BTW, I’m a tenured college professor with teaching awards to my credit. I play music for fun. I work for a living. If someone bootlegged the book I’m shopping around (hard to imagine- its an academic tome), I’d probably dip into my notes and write another. Wouldnt be happy but I wouldnt cry like a bitch, or that academia and all learning was crumbling to a halt.
Apples and Oranges? Perhaps. But the corporate music industry has sold at topdollar a whole lot of nothing for decades now. I’ve worked in tech and in academia- if you are good, you will eventually be able to write your own ticket.
Music IS work, mind you. ANY artistic endeavor is work, because the payoff –beyond your own satisfaction– is dependant on factors beyond your control. Like most gigs. Deal.
Like my students say, “Dont hate the player, hate the game” ;-) Try not to embarass yourself any further by buying into the myth that sharing music is killing music.
“Intellectual property” is a term invented by media lawyers, incidentally.
Doesn’t interpol have any real criminals to catch?
LOL. What valid points? You have none.
You steal music. You’re a weasel, a liar, a scumbag, a loser.
[quote comment="194223"]LOL. What valid points? You have none.
You steal music. You’re a weasel, a liar, a scumbag, a loser.[/quote]
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I need not say more.
[quote comment="194215"]So where are the site’s other officials: Admins and mods? What do they have to say regarding the security of their users? Their attitude toward it would be a real watershed in the world of filesharing.[/quote]it is people like you who make me NOT want to buy music
You need not say any more because you have nothing to say.
You can’t defend yourself. You’re nothing but a sniveling, whiny, little loser douchebag that steals music.
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