latebloomer i know what the site is about. the issue is what the labels care about at this point, and they pretty much only focus on pre-release material in their litigation/c&d letters. and the fact that oink had copious information on its users and what they were downloading means that people who seeded those torrents (including people who were doing it 'just to help out their ratio') might be worried.
the idea of oink as this paradise of out-of-print stuff that was all free and clear and out of the mainstream, mannnn, is a really beautiful one, but it ain't really all that true.
― maura, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
no, it's the idea of oink as near compendium of EVERY PIECE OF MUSIC EVER RECORDED
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it was the most thorough database of the history of popular music
god someone please post the pig crying again
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
are there any torrent site around that come close? i didn't think so, but chatted to some guy a month or two ago, and he mentioned some site.. but i did forget the name of it.
― Menido, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
YSI
― jeff, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
when i stared using oink there were only like a few thousand torrents i used to go through and check all the new ones every day - i am an oink og bow down
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
someone please tell me how hard it is to peg IP addresses exactly to torrent activity.
I've been told it's way, way harder (read: expensive/time consuming) to do that than cherrypick shit off of someone's "sharing folder" on Napster or whatever.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not the idea of oink being a haven for stuff that's out of print or really obscure, but of if having good rips in various bitrates of say the first talking heads album or the fourth public enemy album or the 19th live phish album or some j-pop record or what have you.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
aka what cutty said
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ok yeah.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
cutotmy.
i actually looked up how many live phish albums there are (20).
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
last thing downloaded from oink - Britney Spears "Blackout"
i have many regrets
― Pablo A, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.2pass.co.uk/nervous.gif
― deej, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
credit to am0n
when they kick at my front door how'm i gonna come?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.dr3vil.com/files2/default/Eagle911.gif
― Pablo A, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Big problem here: Not a bald eagle. Might even be a hawk of some kind.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
kestrels have feelings too
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I left my Azureus running, and one of my files just started uploading ... and I have no idea how or why (and I'll be the first to admit that I do not understand the techy side of this stuff). Anyways, I stopped the seeding ... cuz that shit could be the pigs, man. I ain't sharing my stash wit dem!
― Romeo Jones, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I love how this "exclusive" site apparantly was used by everyone on the internet.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I just removed all the oink torrents from uTorrent and it feels a bit surreal.
― musically, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
aw shit, I just donated like 4 days ago.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i honestly felt helpless for a bit after i heard it. like if the only place i ate for 2 years suddenly wasn't there anymore.
^^^i know this is fodder for lol oink people but it's true :( :( :(
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's hilarious that the dude who organized the raid was like, "thousands of people payed premium money for this site." idiot.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I often noticed IMAGE/ requests to my website that came from OINK and had no problems with users sharing my stuff since it seemed a fairly small and exclusive community of people who dug music.
Not to derailroad the thread, but my main problem is with all the Russian mp3 sites and the people who use them and take some kind of moral high-ground when most of the goods they offer are obviously downloaded en-masse from file-sharing in the first place! A bunch of them still have tags of the original rippers, FFS! That and the rumours of organised crime involvement and the seeming impossibility of getting to speak to anyone at the Russian collecting agency it all leaves a bad taste in my mouth - obviously they're the ones making REAL money off mp3s rather than the filesharers.
― Rombald, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont think i can read abt music anymore - i just reflexively go to open oink in a new tab whenever i hear abt something i want
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think i can listen to music anymore
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i just miss my cute avatar.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://home.flash.net/~ulknatme/monument.gif
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i miss paying money to download pre-releases. i don't think i can do that anymore on oink.
― am0n, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Anti file-sharing laws considered
Lord Triesman called on internet service providers to take a "more activist role" in the problem of illegal file sharing.
(I'm suing the government because they own the road where someone drove too fast and crashed into my car. It's their road, so it's their fault.)
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
(except, that's not what he said, is it? nevermind)
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if he backed up the db surreptitiously to some host far, far away. Would surely have been prudent. Cos it's a bad loss otherwise. Not quite library of Alexandria as I read somewhere, but money-grubbing vandalism all the same.
― stet, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently not:
http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/2007/10/sit-down-and-shut-fuck-up.html
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/#comment-194577
― deej, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/#comment-194601
― deej, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/#comment-194613
― deej, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
wow.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
yikes.
― pinkie, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
none of them said what country they're in, huh?
― jergïns, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
cuz they're lying?
― am0n, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
thousands of pounds of ebooks
― deej, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
when i logged in to my personal computerised desktop PC today there was an internet e-mail page from my ISP telling me i was a cunt.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
aha i get it now!
― jergïns, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i uploaded thousands and thousands of pounds of missy elliot. hopefully i'll survive :X
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
when i logged in to my personal computerised desktop PC today
Actually, my ISP does stuff like that too. Once you've used up 90% of your monthly Gigabytes, the next page you open will automatically go to a warning page of theirs, telling you that you need to watch out or pay extra. - I mean, it's pretty easy for them to put up something like that for any IP address they want to contact.
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
(this hasn't got anything to do with illegal stuff, by the way, just that my ISP has a monthly data limit) ("limit" was the word I couldn't think of when I wrote the previous message :-) )
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
aye, maybe so. but i very much doubt this is the case here.
i mean: a felonious user is still a user paying their subs, right? so until some kind of charges are brought, what kind of ISP is going to cut off a source of income? also: i'm pretty sure most ISPs have a vague notion of the phrase "innocent until proven guilty".
these are just two of the things that set off the GrimlyFishy-o-Meter about this one. sure, i could be wrong. it has been known, once or twice. but, eh ...
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link