Huge pirate music site shut down

**funkdoctorspock** · **Huge pirate music site shut down -** 10-23-2007, 02:41 PM

This is HUGE!!!

I'm pretty sure oink isn't coming back anytime soon.

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British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music.

A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.

The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.

'Extremely lucrative'

The IT worker was led from his home in the town's Grange Road and is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law.

At the same time his employer - a large multi-national company - and his father's home were also raided.

A Cleveland Police spokesman said: "This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up. Membership was by invitation only.

"The site allowed the uploading and downloading of pre-release music and media to thousands of members."

An IFPI spokesman said: "Once an album had been posted on the OiNK website, the users that download that music then passed the content to other websites, forums and blogs, where multiple copies were made.

"Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found further down the illegal online supply chain."

The site's servers, based in Amsterdam, were seized in a series of raids last week.

It followed a two-year investigation by music industry bodies the IFPI and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
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**Dirtycheat** · 10-23-2007, 02:46 PM

i never used oink, but it was amazing in terms of content.

I felt that it wasnt quick to download from and that the ratio was a bit inacurate.

It will probably come back soon with its servers in a random country on the outskirts of nowhere.

**GocartMozart** · 10-23-2007, 07:03 PM

well that hurt... can't wait until the next site comes out, because that's just it. you can't stop this

mrsirjojo · 10-25-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by GocartMozart

well that hurt... can't wait until the next site comes out, because that's just it. you can't stop this

True. Supernova wasn't the end everyone expected it to be for P2P.

Jorquera · 11-01-2007, 12:30 PM

Sad that OiNK is gone. R.I.P.

However it will be interesting to see what tracker will be the "next OiNK". So far IMO there are five candidates. Three trackers (stmusic.org, libble.com, funkytorrents.com) that have existed for some time and two new trackers (what.cd and waffles.fm).

As BOiNK won't be a private tracker it will be very hard to be sure about music quality. It is good that tpb are atleast trying to do something.

macca247 · 11-07-2007, 08:45 PM

there is loads of places around and always will be that is the internet for you

moley · 11-08-2007, 07:19 AM

never used oink but its always a sad day to hear about a torrent site being shutdown.

Mila · 12-09-2007, 07:47 AM

Never used oink, but really sad that Demonoid got shut down. That one had a huge resourse with rare stuff on it.

**GocartMozart** · 12-09-2007, 05:39 PM

there is a site out called waffles, that is about as good as oink, but it is a bitch for me to upload. i haven't cracked her yet.

Pauli · 12-12-2007, 12:51 AM

I wonder what countries are going to be good for torrent sites. They've been trying to drive them out of sweden, and canada will actually pursue the big sites here. Thankfully canada ignores downloading.

Anyone heard about Russian policy on torrents?