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…
Previously: BitTorrent Gets More Social with AllPeers
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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!
Its only a loss if we think it is one, lets start a thousand new music trackers to fill the role!
I want a http://oink.piratebay.org/
:(
GOD DAMMIT WHAT THE FUCK!!! they police are such dumb shits and don’t realise why we have websites like these, do they! All my hardwork to keep my ratio good, fucking wasted. Twats
while your sitting here complaining you out to be cleaning the evidence off your hdds.
crybabies.
Can they use the information on the server to catch users? Or are there so many they wouldn’t bother?
[quote comment="193012"]while your sitting here complaining you out to be cleaning the evidence off your hdds.
crybabies.[/quote]
You are probably right about that.
can they? yes.
will they? who knows.
I’d imagine they will go after the people leaking high profile albums using the IP logs etc on the servers.
I am really shocked when hearing the news. Oink is the best, having scene releases as well as many users’ self-rips, always with high sound quality. Scene release is actually not hard to get but AFAIK there is no alternative for users’ slef-rip content.
The King is dead… long live the King
http://www.libble.com
way dont just move the server to .se ? :-9 i hope they have a backup off the site.
[quote comment="193000"]That’s what you get for making it a private tracker and not giving out invites. I asked for invites several time and you refused. Serve you right. Maybe you should know better next time.[/quote]
Sounds like sour grapes to me. The community was set up to engender respect and good will amongst its users. You display neither.
[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]
lmao demonoid is shit
Oink was absolutely great.
The strict rules on the quality and classification of the uploads kept it really good.
All you needed to do to join was show your accounts on some other private trackers to prove you would seed, and you were in. Just join the public invite channel on the oink IRC.
This is bad news :(
We are all heroes!
ExHD out the window, job done :D
[quote comment="193021"][quote comment="193000"]That’s what you get for making it a private tracker and not giving out invites. I asked for invites several time and you refused. Serve you right. Maybe you should know better next time.[/quote]
Sounds like sour grapes to me. The community was set up to engender respect and good will amongst its users. You display neither.[/quote]
You are an idiot to think you are doing good for supporting piracy.
The servers will be up and running again soon…. TPB style.
Im sorry to hear that OiNK.
Goodluck.
And all the stuff too.
There in it too.
Manily OiNK and TMT will be taking the shit for our great time.
Well be thinking of you OiNK and staff.
The moderators where arrogant. You visit the IRC for help you get kicked. The site op’s often asked for donations, and make a profit from file sharing of music.
To me, it servers him right. He was doing something illegal, even worse making money out of P2P.
is the oink irc channel down as well? please give address :)
[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.
As you can see from this story, everything is just fine!
[quote comment="192990"]Can anyone give me an update on all this? I can’t access the site (Tues. 23/10) and I’m wondering if this will be the end for a great site that I was only just starting to use![/quote]
Wow…
Just wow…
[quote comment="193028"]The moderators where arrogant. You visit the IRC for help you get kicked. The site op’s often asked for donations, and make a profit from file sharing of music.
To me, it servers him right. He was doing something illegal, even worse making money out of P2P.[/quote]
Hardly - did you have any idea what kind of servers they were running? These things cost a bomb and the site ran like a dream because of it.
The style of moderation made the site what it is, and I’d hardly call it arrogant. Maybe you’d like to try doing something on a similar scale to see how you coped. :/
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