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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#199
well there’s all the account information on there, showing what you’ve uploaded and downloaded. for someone like me who upped a lot of CDs i’m a bit scared to be honest.
This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI,
Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into
suspected illegal music distribution.
A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s
users
http://oink.cd/
[quote comment="193240"]#199
well there’s all the account information on there, showing what you’ve uploaded and downloaded. for someone like me who upped a lot of CDs i’m a bit scared to be honest.[/quote]
You’re supposed to be. But don’t be.
A few years ago I emailed the RIAA a full set of Pedro’s Trackers databases - and they didn’t do shit. I think perhaps I compromised any investigation they might of done.
sad news for the whole p2p community
good luck admins
Oh man. We’ve learned our lesson! We’ll never fileshare again.
yo flacinhell
who are you? you seem to know an awful lot about oink…
ripoink
Oink is not dead; we shall overcome!
i wonder how many ppl in the .uk now get gangbanged by local authorities.
gordon brown style! will uk citizens be sent to guantanamo….
anyways: who uses services that are run by ppl in countries that 100% cooperate with evil MAFIA?
OiNK was notorious for strictly enforcing ratio requirements, not to mention they log all of your Snatches. They also had a public Log of every .torrent file uploaded and deleted from the database.
To be honest, wiping your HD wouldn’t do much, they have all the proof they need to prosecute you. But that is if they want to spend the time on you. If you rarely used OiNK, and never touched pre-release albums/extremely popular content, I would say you are pretty safe.
The donations were just that, donations. I hate how they surround the word with quotation marks in all of the news articles. There were very few perks to donating, and besides having a star next to your name, you got nothing a PU+ didn’t get. The donations helped the survival of the website, and the website WAS more than a BitTorrent tracker. It had a great forum with a great community, and this is definitely a huge loss.
FlacInHell go kiss you arse
Fuck The Police
I hope the admin will be okay.
A total waste of police time
RIP OINK
[quote comment="193232"]is wiping hard drives really necessary at this point?[/quote]
Its not necesary at all dude.
Encrypt it realtime with DC Pluspack and people calm down and dont panic around now. Ususally all log is dumped into ram and filesystems are encrypted also at sites like this.
And i dont think the Admins will giveout the Root pass ..
Demon… is still up although so much more public known , piratebay also ..
If it took them 2 years, mabe the Interpolists just got an invite last week ;)
And it wasnt a pay leech Site at all, thats a Lie to make it look more effective in public now.
Who would care if they would track down a invite only site otherwise.
And now the IFPI starts frightening all members of oink with nothing then Air to breathe as usual doing public statements trapping the users
activities although having nothing.
Meh ..
[quote comment="193215"]Let’s see: eMule network critical, Demonoid gives no Pass to Canada, Isohunt no pass to the US, TV links is gone, some jack ass former employee of TorrentSpy backstabs for money, and now Oink is gone.
Anyone can add to this list. ^^^^
Personally, I really think that the Torrent community and the P2P community as well should keep a larger eye on things. I also feel that these anti-p2p and anti-piracy groups are starting to gain some momentum. If crap like this keep going for the nest year or so, I think that the entire sharing community should be concerned.
*prepared to get flamed by IQ-less assholes*[/quote]
Man relax p2p wiil adapt yea so what if isohunt and torrentspy and dem. are gone. You don’t see new sites taking there place. As for emule it’s just fine ya some server got shutdown how does take bring up a new server and with kad doesn’t matter much at all
[quote comment="193250"]yo flacinhell
who are you? you seem to know an awful lot about oink…
ripoink[/quote]
I’m the one-man comedy team that used to continually rip the piss out of Pedro’s Nazi Tracker, hack them and make them look very silly.
I managed to successfully see that they finally removed racist policies such as the banning of Hip-Hop music, and that some of the moderators actually became human beings.
A recent win was getting their btmusic.org domain taken down - but despite my best efforts the site remains.
Me & OiNK always had a good communication during my actions against Pedro’s. We had a mutual hatred of the place and especially the admin and his henchman.
I got given around 100 invites once by OiNK to hand out to people via my blog, and I never ever mentioned OiNK on my blog as from day 1 it was clear this was FiH vs Pedros, not FiH vs Torrent Sites.
I helped the early quality lossless scene at OiNK devlop, and I used to blatantly “steal” torrents from Pedro’s after they implemented their Nazi “don’t upload our torrents on over sites” rule.
However - my name was (and no doubt still is) dirt mainly due to Pedro idiots continually causing issues on OiNK just because I was fucking with their site…. Thus I saw to it that my official presence at OiNK was banned ;)
Still, Pedros survives as a buy-your-ratio site (something OiNK definitely wasn’t) and pays for the Vodka supply of Pedro, the idiot in Poland who runs it.
Of course, we cannot forget Frieden… his German accomplice….. who had the ingenious idea of scanning all the money trails/home addresses related to the murkey events behind the scenes at Pedros…. I soon got hold of these and made them public ;)
Damn, I’ve been a loyal user for years. Kept my ratio above 7 this whole time.
Thanks for posting sites, but they are all locked down for signups. Torrent sites should all open registration for a couple days to help OiNK users.
To all my fellow oinkers out there, we need a place to unite and discuss the future of our community. Its up to us to keep this alive. After all, file sharing is about the people.
Does anyone have a forum where oink users are already talking? if not we should find/make one to replace the oink forums and figure this out, i am so lost without oink.
FlacInHell:
How big is the risk of getting the police at my door?
:/
Do they bother at all?
This is indeed, terrible news. However there are tons of smaller, more private torrent sites (like one I help moderate at) and won’t be going away. I don’t download mainstream music so I doubt the RIAA will be knocking on my door because I stole MP3’s for some record that saw maybe 200 copies pressed worldwide.
You can’t get rid of Usenet or all the direct download sites either.
I’m betting that we will see legal action taken against users who uploaded albums before their public release date, and anyone who downloads large amounts of major label music.
No doubt this story will truly unfold in the weeks to come.
The end of an era. It was fun, sharing always is. I tried to upload out of print stuff that the idiot corporations refuse to reissue, and d/l the same, I hope they don’t bust down the door and take me away… although it would somehow be cool to go to jail or even be executed for sharing Grant Green’s “Visions” from 1971. What a way to go.
The pig is dead, long live the pig!
I’m so sorry for you admins. you’re all heroes.
[quote comment="193204"]OiNK.cd was more of a warez operation than a filesharing site where friends swap files for fun. they hosted content on seed servers, the staff were active to obtain and release 0-day content, and membership was by selective entry invitation only. it all points to criminal conspiracy to supply copyright material
OiNK.cd will be missed by me and all the filesharing music lovers who appreciated the depth, breadth, and quality of the content. i feel for Alan and his Dad and his Boss and his m8s who are all today sitting in the crapolla. is gonna be a long time ’til the nitemare is over for them
i doubt very much if OiNK.cd kept any logs and a donation does not link you to a criminal conspiracy. the police will find everything they need on the seed servers, the rest they will have already gathered from infiltration of the site. the OiNK.cd membership can relax, go find another quality site. but this time guys, choose to build a filesharing site and not a warez site
h33t.com says if you enjoy the content then support the authors and buy it[/quote]
are you kidding? they didn’t have seed servers, it was all user content
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