All Over for Oink
International raid
Sources report that the world’s largest private music tracker has been shuttered after its servers were seized last week by tax agents in Amsterdam, and its 24 year old owner arrested at his apartment on Grange Road in Middlesbrough, England earlier today. His employer’s offices were also raided. In addition, the father of the site owner had his home searched. The site's new splash page claims criminal investigations are proceeding against members. Officials say the two-year investigation involved Interpol, Cleveland (UK) Police, the aforementioned Dutch authorities from FIOD-ECD SCHIPOL and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). - js. |
bastards !
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Oink was great for music, it was the only p2p i still used. now its back to slsk.
napster>kazaa>audiogalaxy>slsk>oink>slsk going backwards, I guess? I use usenet for everything else, for music it seems a bit crap |
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Maybe the people who made their rare music available on Oink should do the same on Usenet. Former members can move over and make Usenet more personal and responsive to requests. |
major major bummer......so glad i had 100 torrents running when the shit hit the fan. any repercussions from this and i'll be tracking down a certain canadian genie who had the nerve to wrangle me an invite when i begged him for one.:m:
R.I.P. & thanks :PIG:, it was great while it lasted. |
my ratio was 5.3! i'll join you dd but we'll have to take my car to canada. i put a potato in your tailpipe. ;) speaking of which, we may want to check the extradition situation... - js. |
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If they got the servers, doesn't that mean they got everyone's IPs who used it?
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- js. |
Here are some instructions for American Oink refugees fleeing to Canada. And JS, Canadians don't live in igloos and frigid log cabins.
http://www.radicalmiddle.com/manual.htm |
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btw napho, do you have a sister? - js. |
Only child.
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another nice piece here |
oink was not scene.
rigid mods and admin disliked scene. not necessarily philosophically but qualitatively. haughty oinksterites felt the level of scene rips beneath them. oink was fairly strict in nearly all areas, from the type of avatar mandatory for members to the brittle moderation on the boards. it contributed frankly to a warped community and one i really couldn't participate in but hey that's england. they were absolutely inflexible on two points however: rip q and ratio. let's just say it: rips were exemplary. if the rare bad one got past the gate it wasn't from a lack of standards. instead blame the overwhelming success of the place. with over 1000 new adds each day it stood to reason some would slip through. still, even this was minor. for example after a 100 gig binge i found only one album flawed, and that by a preemphasis issue in a flac encode. in their view scene didn't cut it and lurid press notwithstanding it wasn't their thing. if the scene quality met a minimum standard, they allowed it but only just. they sure didn't praise it. warez on the other hand was a whole different story. they tracked it all. - js. |
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:AP: :AP: :AP: I used to live in Middlesbrough. :D |
Oink founder: We're just like Google
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(re: guardian story)
OiNK> they got my company wrong, but besides that, it's quite a good article OiNK> the police were here around 30 mins ago, and they were not happy one bit when they left OiNK> they asked me how i was coping with all the media coming around OiNK> i said "i don't mind it at all, i'm just telling them the truth, unlike you" http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/search/label/Oink.cd%20IRC |
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