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Oink is no more

Good to see the BBC's journalism is up to scratch.

Half that article is cut and pasted from the IFPI's own press release, and swallows hook line and sinker shite like:

OiNK operated an exclusive membership scheme by which users were only invited to join the site if they could prove that they had music to offer. They were encouraged to distribute recordings in the torrent file format with other OiNK members, and have to keep posting such music to the site to maintain their membership.
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Garbage.

Wonder if they've seized all the membership lists? Probably. Though can't see them going after all 180,000 members.
 
Fuck The Police!

If anyone finds out if there's donations or anything to help the guys [facing prison?] they shoud post up.

I loved it there, most i've been into music for years. Sad day :(
 
I'd got in the habit of paying for albums I liked from itunes and then downloading a decent quality version from Oink. Not always, obviously.

I'll have to get to the record shops again.
 
dogmatique said:
Good to see the BBC's journalism is up to scratch.

Half that article is cut and pasted from the IFPI's own press release, and swallows hook line and sinker shite like:



Garbage.

Wonder if they've seized all the membership lists? Probably. Though can't see them going after all 180,000 members.
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er, i hope not!

That's actually kinda scary!
 
agentred said:
Fuck The Police!

If anyone finds out if there's donations or anything to help the guys [facing prison?] they shoud post up.

I loved it there, most i've been into music for years. Sad day :(
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you might need the money for yourself! :eek:
 
So what's the next best alternative?

Pirate Bay and Demonoid don't seem to have a lot of the music that was on Oink. I don't know of any other good ones. Any ideas?
 
It'll be back, like elitetorrents, and torrentbits, and Fairlight, and Reloaded.

That said, if I'd uploaded content there or donated, I'd be shitting myself right now, like I did after the ET bust :eek:
 
wishface: the odds would have made it very good gamble all the same.

i really think it's worth everyone who used that site to help them out *halo*
 
Well if anyone has, pm'ing is the order of the day.
OiNK was probably a little too easy on the invites and got too big, some members would always have more invites than they knew what to do with...allegedly :D
 
agentred said:
wishface: the odds would have made it very good gamble all the same.

i really think it's worth everyone who used that site to help them out *halo*
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i don't follow.

mind...melting...
 
Fuck

My favorite music site :( discovered loads of new music through it. I hope this chap from Middlesborough doesn't get completely shafted.

Do you reckon the servers keep a long history of what users have shared? I uploaded around 70gb there. Will the server have logs of exactly what that was? I haven't been sharing any Oink torrents for the last month as I had to rebuild my PC.

Back to Usenet and Demonoid then. If there are no better options.
 
Anyone worried about getting "busted" can do the following:

Get www.truecrypt.org and install it
Make a virtual hard drive big enough to put all your naughty stuff in (use a nice big password, a whole sentence would do - especially one with numbers "my dog is 7 years old next september" would be a nice one to remember, iyswim)
Put all your files in said hard drive
Optional: Delete your entire OS installation and install from scratch
Give your disk a scrub: http://www.webmasterfree.com/Hard_Disk_Scrubber_2.0_d1472.html
Laugh at the feds :cool:

While it may be possible to get various bits of data back with a multi-million pound setup and electron microsocopes, I highly doubt that they would bother for some low-level copyright infringement :)
 
wishface: however much music you "stole" from there, the chances of getting caught and fined are much better than any bookies offering you that kind of payback?
 
N1 Buoy said:
Fuck

My favorite music site :( discovered loads of new music through it. I hope this chap from Middlesborough doesn't get completely shafted.

Do you reckon the servers keep a long history of what users have shared? I uploaded around 70gb there. Will the server have logs of exactly what that was? I haven't been sharing any Oink torrents for the last month as I had to rebuild my PC.

Back to Usenet and Demonoid then. If there are no better options.
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maybe we can share a cell together!

this is 'not cool'.
 
agentred said:
What a load of toss, it doesn't even affect record sales.
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erm, you sure about that? source?

If I were a member, I'd feel like I'd just lost the keys to the sweet shop.

I like the idea of free music, though, especially obscure rarities where I feel the price is unjustifiably high.

What I'd like to think is that many people who were members would simply upload torrents onto public trackers and seed as before.

Oink was too good to last.

I think something will spring up, maybe based around blogs and links to Rapidshare or other legitimate line-speed file posts.
 
agentred said:
wishface: however much music you "stole" from there, the chances of getting caught and fined are much better than any bookies offering you that kind of payback?
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compared to most, bugger all i should think. still that's no excuse in the eyes of the lords and masters.
 
agentred said:
i take it you can't read the files when having used truecrypt subversplat?
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Truecrypt makes a file on your hard drive which, to the casual observer, is just Xgb of nonsense, but you can re-mount that file on any computer with truecrypt installed and it behaves just like any normal hard drive.
 
wishface said:
maybe we can share a cell together!

this is 'not cool'.
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It's not cool at all. All my naughty stuff is going on External HDs that can be easily chucked into the neighbours garden.

Oink was great, but I'm going to use my usenet subscriptions more from now. No uploading necessary.
 
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