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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[quote comment="193148"]A very very sad day. I have widened my musical taste considerably from Oink, and owe Oink and TMT etc much gratitude. I’m really gonna miss it.[/quote]
With you on that.
not happy oink was the best at what it did. not shit rar files or 120 bitrates. hope they will be back in some form.
what are the implications for users?
as if he made hundreds of thousands! really?! the only income the site got was donations, there were no ads, nothing. with 180,000 users they reckon he got that much money? what a crock of bollocks.
im glad oink is gone. i couldent get an invite. at least wtih sites like demonoid u had a chance.
Good luck Alan
Poor guy
life as i know it is OVER.
you could get an invite if you tried. there was a post on a public forrum requesting invites. many people asked and recieved. not hard at all to keep up a good ratio. I have not been with oink more than 8 days and my ratio topped 4.0.
should we not just choose a replacement site and try and recreate oink over there?
what’s indietorrents like?
I just met my roommate… he had Oink and I like music so he gave me an invite. Whats elitist about that?
[quote comment="193050"]Damn! This is such a shame.
I don’t think there was any tracker that could compete in terms of volume of house music. Anybody have any other recommendations?[/quote]
try http://www.trancetraffic.com
man i’m so sorry oink. i hope to see you again.
In my opinion, the music industry should learn from oink how to properly distribute their products.
If they’d sell music with proper quality and service without lame restrictions, they’d get far more money.
But no, they rather waste money on taking sites down, that come back in form of a new site anyways, instead of spending it on improving their service and quality of their products.
Whatever, those braindead hypocrits will never learn anyways :f
155 Oct 23, 2007 at 14:46 by markQuote mark
im glad oink is gone. i couldent get an invite. at least wtih sites like demonoid u had a chance.
thats why it was so good keeping people like you out
This ruined my month
nice work. Sorry that kid had too get into so much trouble, but the entertainment industry is loosing billions because of people like him, who are just trying to give stuff away free.
nice thought but if he was the one loosing money, he would not be so willing to give it away.
This is just sad.
Where will I get Leopard now?!
the biggest lost since audiogalaxy
I lol’ed.
Although Alan is a bastard I hope he’ll be ok. Good luck to TmT and the rest….
The record industry will never win.. OiNK was amazing (my source for international music), and the pissed of community will surely start another one. Just remember to send me an invite when that happens!!
GRR so damn close to christmas when they have the no dl limit :(
Don’t give up people, OiNK in a new shape will most certainly appear soon enough. They may have shut down the tracker, but so far there are still tens of thousands of enthusiastic resourceful sharers who need to find a new place. This is just a minor set-back.
Join the Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6774127060&ref=mf
Um so…if you guys were law enforcement and…you know…raided servers and like arresting people…think about this-
Article says they confiscated/raided the servers a week ago. If you were all into arresting people, wouldn’t you keep the servers up (like the article says) to track such vital things as traffic, information and any number of other things?
My guess is they had the servers in their possession and turned on for a week, monitoring all the traffic and letting people continue to do stuff…all the while taking down a list of names and recording data.
Kinda wishing I wasn’t at work now and was at home wiping my hd…
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