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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I seriously have to wonder if IFPI won’t get DDoS’d like RIAA etc. did when they started in on all the raids etc.
I certainly hope someone slams the living shit outta their servers for the next 2 months. Maybe even juice up actual bandwidth cost allocation instead…
[quote comment="193099"]let the virus’s decedend upon those who dare cross us(IFPI, BPI and the Dutch and English Police)!!![/quote]
Viruses are so last week. They do more damage to real people than big organisations anyway. I’m gonna go play a bit of pro evo and forget this stupid invention they call the internet. I only got it to download old cartoons anyway
we’re gonna win this battle people… the record companies are afraid of us
It’s 1’s and 0’s people….
my tail is no longer curled :(
The website http://www.oink.cd you are trying to visit is unreachable.
For reasons please visit news channels on google or related.
everyone visit http://www.riaa.com and click refresh. let’s ddos them with our anger :)
Quit complaining about the elitism you attribute to Oink. If this wasn’t a private tracker, this would have happened a lot sooner.
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LEADERS / FEEDERS / SEEDERS
and the chasing BLEEDERS
It’s funny how most of the flame jobs on here sound more like scorned little brats who didn’t get their candy. It’s a private community for a reason, and that reason is you.
I loved Oink, was proud to be one of it’s members, and will definitely feel the loss. The bright side of it is, no matter how many sites they try to take down, no matter how many people they try to sue, we will never stop. It just won’t happen. Unless you decide to take down the net, or make it so unattractive and controlled that people just ditch it altogether and get back to analog life again, we will always be here….sharing with eachother. Until you get it right.
There is a right way to do this. I’ll give you a hint. I paid $26 american for the new radiohead album online. Why don’t you “people” in the industry pay attention to that, you might learn something.
see you again soon oinkers.
It’s funny how most of the flame jobs on here sound more like scorned little brats who didn’t get their candy. It’s a private community for a reason, and that reason is you.
I loved Oink, was proud to be one of it’s members, and will definitely feel the loss. The bright side of it is, no matter how many sites they try to take down, no matter how many people they try to sue, we will never stop. It just won’t happen. Unless you decide to take down the net, or make it so unattractive and controlled that people just ditch it altogether and get back to analog life again, we will always be here….sharing with eachother. Until you get it right.
There is a right way to do this. I’ll give you a hint. I paid $26 american for the new radiohead album online. Why don’t you “people” in the industry pay attention to that, you might learn something.
see you again soon oinkers.
Poor Alan.
Here’s some useful legal advice…. as I hacked your PC a few years ago (remember that?) how can the police prove it was you doing anything from that PC and not me? ;)
Why does a great site like OiNK die and some Nazi-infested scumhole like Pedro’s gets to live? Such is life….
P.S. Alan busted and not TMT…. Why just the good guy and not his arrogant cocky sidekick in the stocks?
It’s amazing that how many bitter people are glad this happened . . they’re rather have the corporations n shit over a little elitism and shitloads of good music.
While I was not a 0iNK user, sad to see another site taken down but once again, as I’ve stated before, TPB has an excellent thing going that for some reason people are NOT taking advantage, PRQ.SE, why don’t all torrent sites use this for hosting?….to me it just seems to make complete sense, get hosted by PRQ, have the backing of TPB crew and “security” that they bring, I know for damn sure if I was to set up a torrent site, I’d be hosting it there and not worry abt it…I mean c’mon…Am I the only one that see’s sense in this option?
Oh my god! They killed Kenny… You bastard!!
RIP Oink :( , we’ll keep downloading anyway, no matter what, twice as much as before.
If you put off alot more people than you serve because you want to be elite then don’t act surprised when everyone cheers when you get fucked over.
Hip Hip Horaah!! Die you elitist fuckers!!
have you noticed the rhetorical misinformation disseminated by the ‘news’ and authorities. They’ve said you had to show access to pre-released material to join. They call it a “closed criminal network”. They imply we paid to be a part of it.
What about the closed network of authority the public pays to enforce their wishes? Oh wait, thats taxes and police…
Please don’t take bittorrent down, tha t would just be disastrous for any person who likes entertainment.
As i’m sure it’s been said before, what about all the hardcore drug dealers? Oh yeah, because that would mean the chance of getting hurt where instead they can arrest a nice safe man who is doing no harm at all, just creating a community.
[quote comment="193115"]Poor Alan.
Here’s some useful legal advice…. as I hacked your PC a few years ago (remember that?) how can the police prove it was you doing anything from that PC and not me? ;)
Why does a great site like OiNK die and some Nazi-infested scumhole like Pedro’s gets to live? Such is life….
P.S. Alan busted and not TMT…. Why just the good guy and not his arrogant cocky sidekick in the stocks?[/quote]
hehe..Still can’t let go of your feud with Pedro’s, can you FiH? LOL…Sorry to see you still have not gotten a life after all these years. ROFLMAO
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html
[quote comment="192992"]www.stmusic.org[/quote]
they are hosted on leaseweb the same as oink so god knows how much longer they’ll last
heard of them but I rarely download music. I personally don’t see the logic in spending 2yrs on an investigation and probably millions of dollars just to take down a site that inevitably will cause the surge in members to look elsewhere and make some other site famous and make it reach the status of the one fallen. The corporations bitch about how they lose money, which i’m sure they do, but it seems like they lose way more money trying to investigate, bribe, and prosecute people who will never be able to pay restitution. The problem lies within their strategy. They need a new one cause torrents and technology ain’t going anywhere.
These old corporate cronies are seeing their grasp on the public dwindling and are in a panic so they do what CORPORATIONS do best…SUE! It makes me sick cause they act like they have been on the straight and narrow ever since they started…PLEASE! Corporate scandals have been all the rage over the last 5-10yrs with their greedy fingers in the cookie jar finding ways to cheat taxes and all the other greedy tactics. HYPOCRITES!
[quote comment="193124"]hehe..Still can’t let go of your feud with Pedro’s, can you FiH? LOL…Sorry to see you still have not gotten a life after all these years. ROFLMAO[/quote]
Still working on getting the EU domain. Don’t worry, if the RIAA scum don’t get Pedro’s I will ;)
The whiners complaining about elitism are usually the ones who hit and run on the sites and are banned for various site violations. Look folks, according to current law dissemenation of copyrighted materials without permission is illegal. So, what is your problem with those who take the risks, certainly not yourselves, who have decided to mitigate these risks by instituting a invite only system? It is not elite, it is smart. I am sure it was one of you haters that probably tipped off the authorities. That’s usually the case.
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