Two OiNK Uploaders Go Free
Written by Ernesto on July 29, 2008Yesterday we reported that the bail date for OiNK administrator Alan Ellis and the six arrested OiNK uploaders was extended again. New information, however, now shows that two of the six uploaders were released from further investigation and can get on with their lives.
While hundreds and thousands of filesharers in the UK receive a warning letter from their ISP this week asking them nicely to stop sharing copyrighted files, six members of the OiNK tracker have been waiting anxiously for the results of a criminal investigation.
There is some good news though, as two of the six - a 19 year old man and a 28 year old women - wont face any further charges, and now go free. For the other four, and Alan Ellis himself, the wait continues. Alan told TorrentFreak that his new bail date is set for September 10th.
Thus far, the police have not replied to our inquiries so it remains unclear why two of the six uploaders have been released from any charges. The uploaders were arrested by detectives involved with ‘Operation Ark Royal’ this May, on suspicion of “Conspiracy to Defraud the Music Industry” and other copyright offenses. No further arrests have been made since then.
OiNK was one of the largest private BitTorrent trackers, hosting hundreds and thousands of torrents. The site was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement in October 2007, based on inaccurate intel from the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations.
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nice
Charge me you pieces of shit, I AM trying to defraud the music industry.
I wont be happy until there bankrupt.
[Quote]Charge me you pieces of shit, I AM trying to defraud the music industry.
I wont be happy until there bankrupt.[/Quote]
Oh i thought i was the only one…
But seriously this is all BS. This is and never has been a criminal matter and isn’t there more important things for the “Cleavland” police to be worried about th[Quote]Charge me you pieces of shit, I AM trying to defraud the music industry.
I wont be happy until there bankrupt.[/Quote]
Oh i thought i was the only one…
But seriously this is all BS. This is and never has been a criminal matter and isn’t there more important things for the “Cleavland” police to be worried about that they have to go to another continent.
at they have to go to another continent.
“Charge me”, you’re such a badass!
I am with charge me too. Well said!
I wonder why some have been released, looks like the other 4 are going to be fked now. :(
I looked up the definition of defraud, and I highly doubt that they were doing anything deceitfully or in a fraudulent way (basically cheat someone). They didn’t pretend to be the copyright owners, and they definitely didn’t cheat anyone out of money really. Though you know, I’m no lawyer, so maybe they were deceitfully cheating the music industry by not talking to them about it first.
Anyone in the UK read the article in The London Paper on music piracy a while ago? Made me sick.
This situation makes me sick. I wish all of my favourite bands would put a Paypal up on their site now, and I’d send them all a tenna and screw the music industry.
Who wants to bet Alan and those arrested Oink users all had 50+ CDs on their shelves and went to live shows every now and again to support their favourite artists? I sure do!
@8 Yep, that situation is just sick and crazy, and yes, I totally agree to your thought about them having paid the music industry a lot of cash, just to get arrested afterwards…
Finally even the police, or whoever initiated that, found their brains again and managed to finally stop these annoying checks… for at least a few of the accused, poor people…
The only reason they keep extending his bail is because they have nothing on him.
thats gd to know that the police aren’t all that bad :D
It is called “law of the jungle”.
They have weapons, most of us don’t.
I want my, selfwritten, tutorials back.
So where can i claim that copyright infringement/theft by the IFBI end the BPI ?
‘The site was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement in October 2007, based on inaccurate intel from the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations.’
and they haven’t stopped spreading lies yet!! nor, i suspect, will they until they get their way. unless people completely stop buying cds and dvds for at least 1 month and hit them in the pocket, BPI certainly, will just keep on until the internet is non-existant. as long as they get what they want, no one else matters
Great news 1/3 free so far… only 2/3s more to go!
Getting charged for ‘conspiricy to defraud the music industry’… when pigs might fly!!!
OiNK OiNK!!!
My god! the UK is more and more like 1984 every day!
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia! and we are winning :)
Thanks Tony Blair :)
Phoney Blair, more like…
God said:
“My god!”
God has a God?
Well, they can’t stop all of us from downloading!
God, what exactly are you implying? That the policies such as this are at the behest of Oceania?
From Newtorrents.info:
“NEWTORRENTS.info
We are online again!
The site should be fully working in few hours…”
welcome back, guys - you’ve been missed…
WOOHOO!
The UK is turning into a corporate controlled police state that makes the RIAA look like a bunch of girl scouts.
I thought Europe was supposed to be this big open land of freedom and progressive thought mixed with a bunch of that liberal hippie junk.
You guys might as well slap a big red star across the EU with a nice little yellow sickle and hammer to complete the change.
“The UK is turning into a corporate controlled police state that makes the RIAA look like a bunch of girl scouts.”
I totally agree, but don’t think that the hammer & sickle/red star are necessarily signs of a police state…
Well that’s good news, fingers crossed for the others though.
@19
Have you read 1984? It might make the Oceania reference a bit clearer…
I’m not very clear on laws over there, how many times can they extend the date? It’s been nearly a year already!
Guantanamo Bay Britain
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