OINK Probs???

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.

YSI

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

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.

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.

aka what cutty said

ok yeah.

cutotmy.

i actually looked up how many live phish albums there are (20).

last thing downloaded from oink - Britney Spears "Blackout"

i have many regrets

http://www.2pass.co.uk/nervous.gif

credit to am0n

when they kick at my front door
how'm i gonna come?

http://images.dr3vil.com/files2/default/Eagle911.gif

Big problem here: Not a bald eagle. Might even be a hawk of some kind.

kestrels have feelings too

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!

I love how this "exclusive" site apparantly was used by everyone on the internet.

I just removed all the oink torrents from uTorrent and it feels a bit surreal.

aw shit, I just donated like 4 days ago.

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 :( :( :(

i think it's hilarious that the dude who organized the raid was like, "thousands of people payed premium money for this site." idiot.

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.

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

i don't think i can listen to music anymore

i just miss my cute avatar.

http://home.flash.net/~ulknatme/monument.gif

i miss paying money to download pre-releases. i don't think i can do that anymore on oink.

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.)

(except, that's not what he said, is it? nevermind)

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.

Apparently not:

http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/2007/10/sit-down-and-shut-fuck-up.html

hmmm

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/#comment-194577

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/#comment-194601

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/#comment-194613

wow.

yikes.

none of them said what country they're in, huh?

cuz they're lying?

thousands of pounds of ebooks

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.

aha i get it now!

i uploaded thousands and thousands of pounds of missy elliot. hopefully i'll survive :X

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.

(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 :-) )

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 ...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/24/time_to_clear_up_the_murk_about_oink.html

Oink interview 1: http://dot-slash-csc.iblogger.org/oinkfaq.html
OInk interview 2: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/ninternet125.xml

I'm kinda hoping the industry is going to learn something this time, but I'm pessimistic.

I know that technically he's not doing anything wrong, and the argument about it being a choice to do something illegal, but I think it's really ridiculous to say it wasn't intended to be used or wasn't recognized as being used for illegal music downloads. I think the Oink model is good, I don't make a lot of money, so I need to know where it goes with CDs. I do go to more shows and buy more CDs because of Oink, because I find more things I truly enjoy.