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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bollocks
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Who owns oink.cx.la and how do we know it’s legit.
http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/2007/10/oinkcxla-i-smell-something-fishy.html
These authorities disgust me.
If it was a place that “people put copyrighted music online” why didn’t they arrest the hundreds of thousands users?
Oh, no… they just nail one guy really badly so everybody gets scared.
Personally I don’t like to get into hate and insulting discussions. But this is purely disgusting.
To those who are against ‘piracy’ and that keep using words like ’stealing’ of ‘copyright infringement crimes’… here is my small advice:
go jerk off by yourselves and keep us others away from your moralist shit.
I don’t have to give excuses why i think downloading is legit or not, p2p is there and people like it, if you don’t deal with your shit. nobody really gives a shit about what you think, so fuck off.
Thank you
Sorry about this load of bad words and rants. News like this really piss me off. Is UK a democracy? If so, then your concept of democracy is way too old.
Quality has never been the focus for the majority of the people.
It doesn’t surprize me that 50% of the people here actually support the takedown.
Who needs more than 128kbps mp3’s?
523
It wasn’t only about the quality, it was about exploring music, and the community behind it. Everyone did their part to keep it from turning into another torrent site. It had the largest library of music torrents all (for the most part) were properly seeded categorized and maintained.
It was the best modern electronic library for audio. Nothing will match it. Which brings me to question, how do book libraries allow so many books to lent out to people? Do they own copyright to every book? This is exactly what OiNK was doing for music. Just cause there are libraries, it doens’t mean the publishing industry suffers. To think that you could scan every page for yourself and not pay anything, boggles my mind when interpol and labels are paying millions to shutdown sites like OiNK. It’s because the entertainment business is a greedy bitch, trying to whip us into their outdates ways of business.
You can’t stop us from sharing. OiNK was only the beginning.
Fucking IFPI
ive basically grown up in the entertainment industry and what most people dont realise is that its a bad thing when torrent sites are taken down they bring music to parts of the world that would never hear it
meaning the more people who hear your music the more tshirts/concerts you can do to packed out audiences that may have never have heard your music in the past
its also easier to show how many people really like your music which means you get bigger and bigger royaltys every time it has been used in tv/movies/advertisments
When I heard this news I was more deeply affected than I was when I heard the world trade centers were blown up.
Anyone up for some waffles?
[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]
Amen brother. fuck’em.
[quote comment="193187"]Where will I get Leopard now?![/quote]
Duh, Demonoid!
what i dont get is the authoritys arent supposed to get too involved in civil matters like say if i sue a company for not sending me something i had paid for i cant send the cops to the company go through the whole company looking for evidence that i made the order/they didnt send and then seize the equipment they need to run the company and call it evidence
taking down a torrent site is basically the same thing since copyright law is a civil matter in most cases
but because of all the advertising and the millions of dollars alot of big companys have put into stopping downloading people call it stealing
how can somebody steal something you still own? if someone steals your car u cant use your car anymore
if someone listens to your album if they enjoy it then they will support you by going to your concerts and listening about what you support but u still OWN the album
529 Oct 28, 2007 at 06:04 by AnonymousQuote Anonymous wrote:
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.
Amen brother. fuck’em.
how about fuck u ……. brother
Flacinhell, you’ve been a bitch from day 1. your communication through the internet has resulted in everyone hating you.
Not only can you say you’ve done nothing with your life. You can also say that you’ve pissed people off, while doing nothing with your life. what an accomplishment.
You’ll always be at home talking shit on your computer. cuz if you went out to the real world to do it, you’d get slapped, because that’s just the type of bitch that you are.
one time allah came too and then i broke the ceramic tool box
the “Case” wont hold water period
everything will be giving back because the site didnt host any copyrighted material we are the ones who did the “users” oink just provoded a place for us to meet and share better oink will rise again
With one of this type of action hundreds of more trackers will be created hahaha :)
Wow. This crazy. First TV Links. Now this! What the fuck am I going to do now?
Interesting to see all our responses to this, knowing these comment-ers are the future world leaders. I don’t know weather to jump for joy or run.
Best of luck to OiNK’s admin. He enriched many people’s lives, for that he should take heart. His efforts were greatly appreciated. If there’s anything we can do to help him, I hope a message will be posted on oink.cd.
There’s no evidence proving he’s in the wrong. He provided a filehosting website where member were free to upload non-copyrighted material. In the membership statement, it stated members are not to upload copyrighted material. This is one guy running this site with thousands of members.
Rigged.
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