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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[quote comment="194230"]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.[/quote]
You make me giggle.
the concept of copyright is so fucked up, everything is music, everything is art
if i should have to pay for your music, then i should copyright the form of a circles and corners and take fees for every such object/space you own. i should take a huge fee on my copyright on the form of human beings as well.
copyright is the right to copy, it is my right to copy, support life - do not restrain it!
Musician here. Disregard that, I suck cocks.
(a little meme)
This one hits hard. It was a true community that was very dedicated to good music. Much of it was dedicated to music that would benefit from wide-spreading, not the big RIAA types. It wasn’t even hard to find rare 100 pressed copy type stuff that you couldn’t even buy if you wanted to.
Fuck you IFPI, Fuck you BPI, Fuck you RIAA, all you do is hurt the average person for the satisfaction of a very select few. We want real music. Maybe if you didn’t feed us crap on the radio for years on end things wouldn’t be this way.
And most of all, fuck you Jeremy Banks.
My regards go out to the admins of Oink. Thank you for the wonderful community.
Yeah, good luck with that.
“the concept of copyright is so fucked up, everything is music, everything is art
if i should have to pay for your music, then i should copyright the form of a circles and corners and take fees for every such object/space you own. i should take a huge fee on my copyright on the form of human beings as well.
copyright is the right to copy, it is my right to copy, support life - do not restrain it!”
Bye oink. I joined before it was invites only and put a lot of tears and effort into maintaining a good ratio. I can’t say it wasn’t annoying at times, but their strictness is what made it absolutely beyond compare of ANY other music site. Goddamn, I used it get into 90% of the bands I love today. Maybe I didn’t buy as many albums as I should have but I bought so many concert tickets and band merch of artists I would NEVER have heard of if not for oink. And that’s real money that actually reaches the artists.
Fuck labels and their cops. They do NOTHING for real music.
Yeah, just keep trying to con yourself into thinking you’re stealing from corporations and not musicians.
CNN]
“New York, NY - United States authorities have issued a stern warning to American users of Oink, the popular file sharing portal shut down by Dutch and British police this week: You are not off the hook.” ETC
Oh come on, this message is clearly fake. Search for it on the CNN site, and you won’t find it.
Im in a band and I would be flattered if people downloaded my music whether they’re paying for it or not. If you’re famous, money is easy to come by. Musicians dont really deserve vast sums of cash anyway. If you buy a CD then its because you want the whole package. The fewer records sold means that your copy, should you own it, will be worth a lot more in the future. Thus, illegal downloads are beneficial.
[quote comment="194247"]Yeah, just keep trying to con yourself into thinking you’re stealing from corporations and not musicians.[/quote]
you are stealing my attention, and i dont like what i see, what i see is a self-righteous spoiled litlle creep made of greed who is toxic, i hope you will purify/clean yourself, there is only one purifier: love
[quote comment="194247"]Yeah, just keep trying to con yourself into thinking you’re stealing from corporations and not musicians.[/quote]
you are stealing my attention, and i dont like what i see, what i see is a self-righteous spoiled litlle creep made of greed who is toxic, i hope you will purify/clean yourself, there is only one purifier: love
I think Musician’s lost his/her marbles. As poetic as it reads, there isn’t a lot of sense in your text.
Secondly, I hope Alan was making a lot of money from the site. Atleast enough to make it worth going to jail for. Would he really be foolish enough to run a site for the crack alone? What a loser
[quote comment="194288"]I think Musician’s lost his/her marbles. As poetic as it reads, there isn’t a lot of sense in your text.
Secondly, I hope Alan was making a lot of money from the site. Atleast enough to make it worth going to jail for. Would he really be foolish enough to run a site for the crack alone? What a loser[/quote]
Sorry, not Musician. I meant the person responsible for posts; 455 and 456
I cannot believe how badly secured this site was. How could they allow this to happen.
Oink was pretty nice. Lots of good stuff, music, warez-wise. Ratio was pretty easy to maintain.
Try http://www.filemp3.com ..
[quote comment="194333"]Try http://www.filemp3.com ..[/quote]
http://www.filemp3.org I mean, sorry :S
Honestly, if you werent invited, tough for you. This was a great site and its a sad thing to see it gone.
….so close to the annual free leech :(
Are you really sad to see it gone? It was too well organised. It was begging to be shut down really. Only illegal stuff ws allowed on there. It didn’t even cater for legal stuff.
Alternative:
http://www.softmp3.org
[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]
Demonoid isn’t any “safer”, I received a cease and desist letter from my internet provider regarding something I got off that site…so be just as weary.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/956968
All I know is oinks gonna be back soon and we are gonna have a 1 month of freeleech :D
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