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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The internet just became alot more useless.
Good luck Alan, today dies a perfectly administered community where sharing was as perfect as it could get.
You took one for the team. Thank you.
Farewell OiNK.
Human knowledge belongs to the world.
KEEP DOWNLOADING.
FUCK THE POLICE!
OiNK Ruled. RIP
good . thats lame that people want to steal other paople’s art then get other people involved in stealing it.then they’re the hero for “leakin it first” and then sharing it across the internet. they basque in the love and adoration that belongs to the artist as if they are the ones who deserve it .. the are common criminals and i’m glad to see justice served. writing can be very painstaking recording at a studio can be very costly. U IDIOTS ARE SHOOTING YOURSELFS IN THE FOOT>>>PAY FOR THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!
499!!!
Man I loved That site so much.
Hilarious… I find it quite funny when people claim I was “stealing” music by downloading it from sites like Oink. Well, guess what? I wouldn’t have bought ANY of the albums that I’ve downloaded illegally. So, guess what? You’ve lost zero money from my music downloading. But yeah, call me names. The only effect of the shutting down of Oink is that I will get to check out less bands to see live.
As it stands now, there is a zero percent chance I will ever buy a CD again (save, perhaps, from a merch table at a show of a band I dig). Fuck supporting the out-dated recording industry. They will, quite literally, never get another dime from me.
God bless the internet, and God bless the fact that file sharing will be around forever. Putting your finger in one hole of the dyke only causes another leak to sprout.
I don’t know if I totally agree with your logic, but one thing I definitely agree with is that downloading is NOT stealing. Anyone who says it is needs to think twice about the whole situation.
Downloading isn’t stealing because someone is willingly giving the music to you. If someone gives you a copy of something that is THEIRS, then that is their right… oh wait no you are stealing.
If you can’t freely give away a copy of something that you bought, that means you didn’t own it in the first place. If the RIAA/IFPI wants us to buy something that never even becomes ours, then I don’t feel bad at all if they get absolutely $0. I’ll cut them a break and be nice to them though and say that they do deserve every single 0 penny of the $0.
good luck alan. :(((
498 should learn how to spell and be less of an idiot. your music probably sucks dick anyway.
OiNK.. you will be missed terribly
oh, btw
http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/
check the latest.
Looks like they got the wrong guy. I’m free.
OPP site op Alan gets his two pence in. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/ninternet125.xml
Some glaring innacuracies still present (note the insinuation towards the end that OPP made money off merch sales), but this may help set the record a little staighter.
This was the ultimate tracker for Psychedelic trance music. I found such rare stuff on Oink that im sure is not available anywhere else on the internet..RIP oink :(
[quote comment="194128"][quote comment="193742"]Dude…WOW…LOL
the last post I read at OiNK was about you, saying something like
“this flacinhell dude used to spam the forums with flac info, but he was banned due to no apparent reason.”
lol and 10 hours later, I get the real story.
You were officially banned,who did you stay on as?[/quote]
You got some of the story - the real story takes up something like 500 blog posts :D
I’m not saying who I was - cause I was climbing the ladder of respect by not being me and never questioning things or asking things or mentioning Pedro’s. Just there sharing and leeching what I wanted. Never know the site might come back, either way I have lots of pretend contacts who speak to a pretend person they think is real - when he isn’t cause I’m the real me ;)
Also of course I have the same going down at Pedro’s - except my goal there is to get promoted to a staff level, and go report the whole place and all its working members and shares to the authorities and really fuck them up. You think OiNK being taken away on BBC News in a police van is bad - wait till you see what will inevitably happen to Pedro :D[/quote]
More of your delusional dreams. The only people who believe what you post are yourself and those that don’t know about your history. You have been kicked from most torrent sites you have belonged to due to your actions. You have been on a crusade to shut down Pedro’s for many years now and have failed miserably. Why do you continue? Do you lack anything better to do? I hope you keep posting as it just goes to show everyone how full of it you are, and more importantly, what a total joke you are. You have hacked into peoples computers, disrupted many P2P sites, and been a moron in general. None of which is good for the P2P community. I find it amusing you have to post under other people’s names as you don’t have the balls to post under your name. Just shows what a loser you really are. Only the uniformed can take you seriously as those of us that have known you for the last few years know that you never back up what you say with results. One would think that after many years of failing you would get the picture that nobody really cares about you and what you are trying to do, mainly get attention that you apparently lacked growing up. If you are so leet, why have you failed so miserably in all your little attacks? Are you so delusional that you can’t admit the fact , despite what you think, that you will just continue failing? I think everyone can see you for what you are. An attention craving idiot with no real life. That is so sad….
Me cago en la puta, lo digo en español por que ando encabronado this is not fucking possible oink.cd rulz now is dead bastards! ¬¬
the telegraph article raises a great point about google.oink leads u to the downloads but google leads u to oink,so shouldnt they get fucked too? 2 days and im having withdrawal symptoms already .fuckers
[quote comment="194223"]LOL. What valid points? You have none.
You steal music. You’re a weasel, a liar, a scumbag, a loser.[/quote]
faggot
who is pedro anyways?
he drives a coach in marbella
assholes. A.C.A.B.
(all cops are bastards)
Serves them right for not giving me an invite.
Damn it… I stand behind you all the way dude.
OiNKv2 will be launched Nov1.. see oink.cx.la
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