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23-10-07, 09:39 PM | #1 |
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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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23-10-07, 10:40 PM | #2 |
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24-10-07, 07:17 AM | #3 |
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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.
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24-10-07, 08:55 AM | #4 |
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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. |
24-10-07, 02:31 PM | #5 | |
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24-10-07, 02:45 PM | #6 |
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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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24-10-07, 03:30 PM | #7 |
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24-10-07, 06:54 PM | #8 | |
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yep....so extremely lucrative that the 24 year old admin worked a full time time job and lived in a one bedroom flat in Middlesbrough.
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24-10-07, 08:21 PM | #9 |
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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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