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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Well, it wont have any effect on the p2p music scene, users will just go else where, there is plenty of other sites that offer music torrents, and as known before, sites taken down will just be replaced by other sites.
if your looking for new sites here is a list of other music sites to check out.
http://www.torrentking.org/?cat=Music
but perhaps we can be lucky to see oink back online in another form at some time, until, use the other music sites, plenty of them and many new popping up here and there.
[quote comment="194416"]Well, it wont have any effect on the p2p music scene, users will just go else where, there is plenty of other sites that offer music torrents, and as known before, sites taken down will just be replaced by other sites.
if your looking for new sites here is a list of other music sites to check out.
http://www.torrentking.org/?cat=Music
but perhaps we can be lucky to see oink back online in another form at some time, until, use the other music sites, plenty of them and many new popping up here and there.[/quote]
Which is what worries me; the authorities aren’t stupid. They know this is what will happen. So what’s the most effective thing they can do? Make a big example of these people. That’s more likley to stop people - if they can see the penalties!
so what should we do for now.
[quote comment="194423"]
Which is what worries me; the authorities aren’t stupid. They know this is what will happen. So what’s the most effective thing they can do? Make a big example of these people. That’s more likley to stop people - if they can see the penalties![/quote]
Havent they made examples of other tracers before ? and how much did that help, everytime 1 site is taken down, 100 new is starting up, there is more than 1000 torrent sites out there now, and growing each day.
I don’t know why they don’t just get rid of the internet completely if they’re that bothered. The internet is only good for illegal donwloads anyway.
In England? NOne that I can think of.
#care
If people are against this maybe they should start waking up and see the world around them.
If you ask me, I don’t care. Never liked that site anyway.
Damn, bad news hope you’ll be back soon Admin!
There are bigger issues were Interpol should worry about, bastards!
Hope that new Oink’s will grow as mushrooms 8)
Good Luck and hope you (and Oink) will be back soon!
Erik
I doubt much action will be taken against the users really. The IFPI like to use scare tactics a lot, they’re pretty harmless.
R.I.P. OiNK.
rip oink
I have a feeling they’re really gonna stick it to this Admin.
I’m talking like 20+ years.
This is a sad day for folks who worked really hard to… well… steal… Yeah, it sucks that it’s gone, but really, nothing great lasts forever. Something new will rise from the ashes, I’m sure. I just hope Alan had the money stashed where he can get at it for his own legal defense.
Damn!!!!!
Upon hearing this I properly firewalled my system for the first time ever.
I will miss oink.
Torrents were always well seeded.
I will be hurling abuse at the BPI and IFPI from a payphone at the next opertunity.
This site had many rare CDs, many not available anymore. I can’t think of any other places to find them.
The admin shouldn’t have let users to upload pre-releases. This was one of the bigger mistakes.
RIP oink
if music industries dont want us to take music illeagally then they should make it cheaper, im not paying 15 quid to buy a CD worth about, what? 20p?
If the car companies don’t want me to steal their cars, they should make them cheaper, y’know?
I decide what’s right and wrong, cuz I haven’t been busted yet.
Thi sucks. While I did hate the useless share ratio rules, and was worried that the early release stuff would eventually catch up to them, I was hoping that they wouldn’t go down, cause this was one of the few places that i could go if i needed something that I couldn’t find anywhere else, even in stores.
[quote comment="193292"]Oink admin get BANNED from their own tracker. Serves them right for banning so many others for stupid things. EG. if you even questioned their authoritar on anything you’d get banned, no reason given. They were worse than any other private tracker.
This is karma. What goes around, comes around.
A big f.u. to the admin and everyone who bent over for them. I hope he rots in jail. It’s his turn to bend over now.[/quote]
It is quite easy to see you were one of the whiny fucktards who could not understand how to seed a fucking torrent and got your ass kicked out.
Chicken shit retard. How’s the seeding going now, fucktwat?
it’s a sad day for pirates worldwide, but it serves you all right. and they *are* investigating frequent users, tracking known IP’s, etc
so it’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose for anyone who used the site while the company was tracking users.
[quote comment="193091"]For one they cannot go after his paypal account cause its donations.
and the reason why the pirate bay did not get fully shut down cause there copyright law is diffrent then in other countries, remember the raid, read about it before askin weired ?.. and its not ilegal to host .torrent files on a website its ilegal to host the acutal copywrite movies/mps/etc on the servers. most sites just index torrent files. which is fully legal to do.
hence these sites still around[/quote]
lmao… its illegal to point to illegal content with intentions of distributing it illegally, this is why google cant get shit for indexing sites. What people should do that host these sites should make it like youtube, youtube has a shield because users submit content and are held responsible for it.
Read here:
http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/
[quote comment="193436"]To all the idiots clamoring that Oink deserved it for not getting any invites - I laugh at you pathetic morons. Getting into Oink wasn’t as hard as it seemed - all you needed to do was show proof of a good ratio from other sites. I’m guessing you couldn’t do that because you were all fucking leechers anyways - we don’t need assholes like you in our community.
Hope Oink makes a comeback.[/quote]
since when did you have to show proof to gain admitance? I recieved an invite and was piggin out from the get go. Did not have to show any qualifications, just had to keep up a good ratio
dang im gonna miss oink!!! i juz got invited there like about a month ago and juz accesed the site today to find dat they were shut down. damn tha dutch police!!!! oink, u will be missed very much :( and to all those who think demonoid is the shit, its aight but most of the quality on the site isn’t up to par with wat oink had, so back down
Soo sad :(
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