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…  trial of Alan Ellis ended in an acquittal for the ex-OiNK admin and, just like Newzbin, his site hosted no copyright works and …

…  a week ago the trial of Alan Ellis, the ex-admin of the OiNK BitTorrent tracker, came to an end. The jury at Teesside Crown Court …  by the industry to retrieve the money the users of OiNK donated to the site, and give it to the artists whose music was shared …

…  a very long wait of more than two years, last week the OiNK trial got underway with the prosecution making their case against Alan …  is common sense to come to the conclusion that Oink was dishonest, claimed the prosecution lawyer, adding that Ellis knows …  should be very well aware that the activity engaged in by OiNK’s users is covered under civil law. Switching momentarily from …

…  to the jury at Teesside Crown Court, this week the ex-OiNK admin had the opportunity to begin presenting his side of the …  under UK copyright law. BitTorrent trackers such as OiNK do not distribute, store or duplicate copyright works, so when Ellis said …

…  OiNK trial has been underway for more than a week now. Although there is …  portrays Ellis, and how he sees the role he played on the OiNK website. From the very beginning, the music industry has pictured the …  behind the scenes. Last week the prosecution in the OiNK trial continued down the same path, pointing out that Ellis had gathered …

…  the OiNK trial continued with the selection of a jury consisting of 10 men and two …  they were all asked whether they were familiar with the OiNK BitTorrent tracker, if they held any special interest in protecting …  were further warned by Judge Briggs not to Google for OiNK or do any other form of research on the Internet. This might be a good …

OiNK was considered by many to be the finest BitTorrent music tracker the world has …  sentenced to community service and fines. The trial of OiNK founder Alan Ellis was pushed back and started today at Middlesbrough …  to defraud the music industry for his role in the OiNK tracker. During the first day of his trial little has happened. The …

…  get our stuff from Mininova, The Pirate Bay, Twitter and Zoink,” Novaking told TorrentFreak. …

…  is indeed legislation. So too does Alan Ellis, and the Oink uploaders who were sentenced earlier this year. For Mr Simon, that’s …

…  industry holds for these type of leaks, after all when OiNK was raided it was the availability of pre-release material that dominated …  as suppliers for pre-release material. In the case of the OiNK uploaders, they had simply purchased CDs legitimately from online …

…  out by the UK public and the closing down of sites such as OiNK, TV Links and AradiTracker, the groups at the top of the so-called ‘piracy …  in the presence of BPI investigators, in common with the OiNK uploaders the suspects were charged with Conspiracy to Defraud (the music …