http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL2315584520071023?feedType=RSS&feedName=internetNews&rpc=22&sp=true

10/23/2007 8:13:38 AM

shit that sucks. hopefully they don't turn over all the records to the feds

10/23/2007 8:34:11 AM

i thought i read a digg article where they moved their servers to the congo? was that not accurate?

10/23/2007 8:47:32 AM

apparently not.

10/23/2007 8:48:51 AM

God dammit.

10/23/2007 8:52:13 AM

this coupled with Comcast outright blocking torrent traffic is starting to piss me off

10/23/2007 8:55:31 AM

u had to figure it would all come to an end someday...we're not at the end yet, but we're headed there.

10/23/2007 9:16:58 AM

fucking lame

10/23/2007 10:16:10 AM

Quote :

"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"

rah roh

10/23/2007 10:52:13 AM

^ weak

10/23/2007 12:19:35 PM

pwnt

fucking criminals

10/23/2007 1:12:37 PM

lol there will always be usenet and topsites. who really cares if p2p and bittorrent sites get the shaft. oink was just good for old school releases and rare shit.

10/23/2007 2:50:55 PM

^OiNK was the good for practically every album not found on other bt sites.

Quote :

"An estimated 180,000 members paid 'donations' via debit or credit cards for OiNK's catalogue of music and other media."

I really don't remember seeing that many stars next to people's names.

10/23/2007 8:27:09 PM

I HAVE SOME OINK INVITES.



$5.

10/23/2007 8:52:05 PM

RIP OINK...

The music was really that good.....

10/27/2007 11:07:43 PM

likely not any more left. but if anyone has one i'd like one.

10/28/2007 3:31:46 PM

oink is shut down dumbass

10/28/2007 3:42:07 PM

any other comparable sites? i need my indie rock and instrumental music that isn't popular enough to be elsewhere

i don't have indietorrents and would like an invite there

10/28/2007 8:56:32 PM

stmusic.org *private trackers

[Edited on October 28, 2007 at 9:16 PM. Reason : f]

10/28/2007 9:15:49 PM

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/oink-founder-free-after-two-plus-years-of-legal-troubles.ars

Quote :

" A UK court has acquitted the admin of music sharing site OiNK of the one and only charge brought against him: conspiracy to defraud copyright owners. Twenty-six-year-old Alan Ellis was unanimously found not guilty by a jury in a Teesside Crown Court Friday, despite efforts from the music industry to paint him as a "cunning" liar who made money off the hard work of others. The OiNK drama goes back to October of 2007 when police seized OiNK's servers and arrested Ellis after two international music rights groups, IFPI and BPI, spent two years working to investigate the tracker. At the time, the Cleveland Police said that the "hundreds of thousands of pounds" being brought in were stashed in various bank accounts, and the IFPI claimed that there were over 180,000 "hard-core" file sharers leaking hot demos or prerelease mixes to the invite-only service. Police quickly followed up on Ellis' arrest by pursuing a number of OiNK's users, though they were unable to succeed in trying to find a personal connection between Ellis and the users. Ellis was eventually released on bail, but the case continued to drag on for more than two years. As part of their argument, prosecutors called OiNK a "cash cow," alleging that Ellis made £300,000 off some 21 million downloads. Ellis, of course, argued that his involvement was akin to providing a service like Google—OiNK merely allowed users to find what they were looking for from other users, he said. When University of London professor Birgitte Andersenok testified that file sharing has actually led to more music sales, music industry prosecutors called her account "garbage" and described Ellis as telling "persistent, cunning, calculated lies," according to The Gazette. Ellis' defense lawyer made a point that Ellis was in regular contact with copyright owners before OiNK was shut down in 2007, but that he was never told to stop what he was doing by the IFPI or anyone else. In fact, musicians actually used his site to promote their own music before the IFPI turned around and had the site taken down. "If anybody’s acting dishonestly it’s them," Ellis' lawyer Alex Stein said. Evidently the jury agreed, by voting unanimously in Ellis' favor after hearing closing arguments Friday morning. The case was the first of its kind in the UK, making the jury's decision a landmark one that is sure to be a pain in the music industry's behind for years to come as it tries to keep playing P2P Whac-a-Mole. The IFPI did not respond to our request for comment on Ellis' acquittal, but BPI told The Register that it was unhappy with the decision. "This is a hugely disappointing verdict which is out of line with decisions made in similar cases around the world, such as The Pirate Bay," BPI said. "The case shows that artists and music companies need better protection." "

1/15/2010 4:59:54 PM

truly a great day

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