I recently registered an OINK acccount and it worked fine for about 2 days. Now when I try to log in I'm told my account has been disabled. Now I can't even get into the forum to figure this out. Anyone know why this might be the case. I downloaded about 10 albums in the short time I was on and had yet to upload a torrent of my own. Could that be why I'm blocked? Thanks.
― Mathis, Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
from the faq:
What's all this stuff about ratio?
This is a music sharing site. One simple way to display how much you're sharing is with the share ratio. Before doing that, let's talk about two terms: Uploading is when you send data to others, downloading is when you receive data. Your share ratio is the amount you've uploaded divided by amount downloaded (Ratio = UL / DL). A good ratio is 1.0 or higher, which means that you've shared back as much or more than you received. If you don't keep a good ratio it could result in you losing your account. To try and keep a good ratio you can:
* Make sure you seed (don't close the torrent after it has finished downloading). * Try and find a new torrent that will be popular. If you download it early all the other people that download it after you will be able to download from you. * Stop downloading for a while. * If possible leave your computer on and torrents open continuously. This way you can improve your ratio even while not using your computer.
― pinder (pinder), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
― svend (svend), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
― JC-L (JC-L), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
― cdwill, Monday, 29 August 2005 22:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
so did i miss an announcement about the site going down for maintenance or is something really wrong? been down about a whole day, i think...
― BATTAGS, Friday, 29 June 2007 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
via whois:
Registration status: Registered until renewal date. *** This registration has been SUSPENDED. ***
― maura, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh SNAP!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oink Invites (new application process!!!1)
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
2007-06-29 - DNS Problems
We apologize for the continuing DNS problems. You can get around this by adding our hostnames directly to your hosts file. Add the following lines to your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (the number of spaces between the IP and the name doesn't matter as long as there's at least one space (or tab):
85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk 85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk 85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk
― gr8080, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Do you pick your nose?
No
Yes, but only in private
Yes, in public
Blank Vote (a.k.a. "I just want to see the results")
― gr8080, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
I had to do that fix last month. Been working fine ever since. Not that I really use it much.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
and i finally figured out how to be "clever" :(
― The Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, what the fuck does "clever" mean?
― funny farm, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
cool. thanks for that, gr8080.
― funny farm, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
i would also like to know what the fuck "clever" means
― later arpeggiator, Friday, 29 June 2007 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Clever" means your router port is open. If it's closed, you can connect to the main seeder, but can't share with others (or something like that). Open ports means higher sharing ratio in the long run.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 June 2007 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
ah, that explains that. i thought it had something to do with having a port open, but i'd just never heard it referred to as "clever." not that i would know.
― later arpeggiator, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh...so i guess i've been clever right from the start.
― funny farm, Saturday, 30 June 2007 00:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
what if you're using a mac?
― Z S, Saturday, 30 June 2007 03:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
ah, I was finally able to get back on the site, and saw this in the forums:
"Temporary fix for Mac OS X, it requires some work in the Terminal. You need the admin password for your system for this. Make sure to enter all commands in bold correctly with the proper spaces and capitalization.
1. Open "Terminal" from your Applications / Utilities directory.
2. Type cd /private/etc and hit enter.
3. Time to edit the hosts file, we will use VIM for it, which is a text editor for the console. You also need root privileges to edit the file because it is read only for normal users. Type sudo vim hosts and hit enter. You will be asked for your admin password, enter it and hit enter, then VIM pops up.
4. You will see the content of the hosts file, first few lines are comments with # in the front, then 3 entries, do NOT touch these. Navigate to the last line with your cursor keys and then to the right till the cursor is behind the localhost entry
5. Now you need VIM to go into edit mode, do this by hitting i
6. VIM is in insert mode now, hit enter for a new line and type 85.17.40.69 tracker.oink.me.uk
If you want you can add the following lines too, in case you encounter trouble with IRC or the website. Hit enter after each line for a new one 85.17.40.71 oink.me.uk 85.17.40.70 irc.oink.me.uk
7. Time to leave edit mode now, do so by hitting the escape key.
8. Back in viewing mode, now you need to save the file. You can do this by typing :w and hitting enter, VIM will tell you something like "hosts (number of lines) written".
9. Now you need to exit VIM. Type :q and hit enter, you will be back at the terminal.
10. Almost done, now you need to tell the OS to use the content of the new hosts file. Type sudo niload -v -m hosts . < /etc/hosts and hit enter. You will be asked for the admin password again, after that the hosts file will be parsed.
11. You're done, exit the terminal by typing exit and hit enter. Close the window.
Edit: To remove them again - follow the same steps, in step 6 delete the 3 added lines, then save the file, quit the editor. You can then either run step 10 or wait until your next reboot."
― Z S, Saturday, 30 June 2007 03:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
After step 3, I get "(my acct name)is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."
Anyone know wtf?!
― Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 30 June 2007 15:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
You have been banned from OiNK 30 days. You will be able to complete step three at the end of those 30 days.
― Oink Administrator, Saturday, 30 June 2007 20:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
If you aren't an administrator on yr Mac, you will be unable to sudo. Open System Preferences -> Accounts, and make sure that "Allow user to administer this computer" is checked under yr account.
― libcrypt, Saturday, 30 June 2007 20:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
The latter of these two comments was helpful. Thanks! (the first I suspect to be an amusing little jokelet).
― Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 30 June 2007 21:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
new steely dan leaked
― whatever, Saturday, 30 June 2007 21:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh, also, if you've never saved something in your HOSTS file, all you need to do is open it with Notepad, paste the:
in there somewhere and save it.
― gr8080, Sunday, 1 July 2007 02:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahah is that all.
internet conniption averted.
― Confounded, Sunday, 1 July 2007 02:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
i just leaked
― whatever, Sunday, 1 July 2007 21:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
just stopped working for me again, even with the host file info.
― gr8080, Monday, 2 July 2007 01:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
same here
― later arpeggiator, Monday, 2 July 2007 01:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
ditto
― jim, Monday, 2 July 2007 01:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was kicked off for bad ratio. I got a new account, because it's so much easier (and there's so much more) than soulseek. It's tough keeping up a ratio though, because I very rarely have stuff with a good enough bitrate that isn't already uploaded. Although when my account went down, some rare Intersystems stuff left and the entire Oink community was the worse for it.
― filthy dylan, Monday, 2 July 2007 06:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
(and there's so much more) than soulseek
haha no
― ☪, Monday, 2 July 2007 11:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
you don't have to upload new "stuff" to get keep your ratio up
― cutty, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone know what's going on with Oink this weekend? I get the message "oink.me.uk could not be found. Please check the name and try again" Is that the above mentioned "DSN" problem or something else entirely? Hope it comes back soon!
― pacifikix, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
to everything you said: NO
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Is that the above mentioned "DSN" problem or something else entirely?
It's the DNS issue. Do what it says upthread and it should work fine - or at least, it did me.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Monday, 2 July 2007 15:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Thanks Wayward Johnny B! I also just read this: http://torrentfreak.com/oink-is-alive-learn-how-to-access/ and that had some insight into the problem as well. Cheers.
― pacifikix, Monday, 2 July 2007 15:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
new domain: oink.cd
― pinder, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 06:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
New domain, and make sure to re-download your old torrents from the new site.
― musically, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 06:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
They got raided last night, I am hearing on the radio. :/
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
where were the servers located? the uk?
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yep.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
So can oink users be sued or anything now they have access to email addresses and shit?
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1779471.0.police_swoop_to_close_down_illegal_website.php
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
will not be an Oink clone, but something completely different.
Where's the new less-incriminating software supporting this drastic change?
-- trashthumb, Friday, October 26, 2007 3:07 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sees-a-future-without-bittorrent-071030/
― StanM, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haha. Trent Reznor is a copyright violating OiNK user: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_williams.html
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
funny the only thing you ever heard abt oink was like people begging for invites on message boards then they get busted and it turns out everyone in the world was a member
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
i gave an invite to someone in a pretty hueg band
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Trent Reznor: 'It was like the world's greatest record store'
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 22:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
So w/r/t all the new multitudes of OiNK replacement sites cropping up everywhere, has anyone noticed a preponderance of jazz uploaders on any one of the new ones? I would be interested, from a purely academic point of view, to know if the bulk of that is going to one tracker or another. The enormous range of jazz on OiNK, e.g. Mosaic sets and RVG editions, always warmed my heart.
I mean, when my friend showed them to me. Because I didn't download them. *cough*
― doctorfunktronic, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
It would be interesting to see a listing of all the albums that were available on OINK at the end. I hear people talking about the enormous range, but I'm curious just how vast it was.
― o. nate, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
there was never anything, no matter how obscure, that I couldn't find there, with enough seeders that it downloaded in a few minutes.
― akm, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
see now i wish i had actually tried it.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow, Trent's comments are actually some of the most sensible I've read so far about OiNK.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
he's biting dj /rupture.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
reznor can afford to pay, the dick.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
there was never anything, no matter how obscure, that I couldn't find there
this was quite far from my experience and i don't think my tastes are particularly obscure.
― jed_, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, that's def an overstatement, but doesn't change the fact that it dwarfed the selection of any record shop, online or not
and the request system did work well enough for records not on the tracker, i had a new request filled about once or twice a week on average. interesting too, because the request system didn't run based on incentive like the ratio system
― lucas pine, Thursday, 1 November 2007 22:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hmm ... I'm fairly sure Amazon offered a far bigger catalogue overall, even if OINK was more focussed on things I might want.
― Alba, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh you're right, i misspoke
― lucas pine, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
There was about 215000 torrents on oink, I think.
― saudade, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
mmmmmmmm waffles
― czn, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's a RIAA message on what.cd after you login, apparently.
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 09:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and demonoid is gone.
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 09:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
that riaa message on what was a hack. They've been getting haxxored all day.
― saudade, Friday, 9 November 2007 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Prince to sue The Pirate Bay http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9814504-7.html?tag=nefd.blgs
― StanM, Saturday, 10 November 2007 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes, waffles ftw.
― alexei, Sunday, 11 November 2007 02:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
mmm i used to have an oink account, and i mailed waffles about it, with some proof included. never heard anything back from them. is it up and running?
― Menido, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
you may want to check the waffles invites thread on I Rate Everything. just search ilx 'waffles invites'
― jergïns, Sunday, 11 November 2007 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dear registered user of the site What.cd,
We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the sole purpose of music piracy.
Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be obvious to you that the results outweigh the benefits - hard working artists won't be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music, ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the shops and for download.
The RIAA had hoped that the disabling by the police of the large illegal music site, Oink.cd, would stop a lot of people from engaging in piracy, as they don't want to be seen as criminals. However, this appears to not be the case, as two large new sites have sprung up in its place.
This email is the final warning to all of you who were members of Oink.cd and are current members of What.cd. If we find you to be committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies of America.
Yours Faithfully,
The RIAA
― antexit, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
That e-mail is fake as the day is long. They've been getting hacked by a 14 yr old kid who spoofed the e-mail to say r1aa.org (by the way, the real r1aa's domain is registered as a .com) and what.cd members should change their e-mails, passwords and passkeys.
― saudade, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
days are actually really short now
― s1ocki, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
So it's fake in the Northern Hemisphere, you're telling us?
― StanM, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
I knew someone would say that days are short now!
But yes, the e-mails are very very fake. since when is the r1aa "faithfully yours"? They are not faithful.
― saudade, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
#9747 by (orphaned) at 2007-10-29 23:56:47 GMT BS. Theres no way 8 songs is 28mb.
This is no doubt a transcode.
God I miss OiNK...
#9751 by (orphaned) at 2007-10-30 00:05:43 GMT I downloaded the first file, it shows up as 128k.
THIS IS A PIECE OF SHIT AND I CAN'T EVEN REPORT IT.
THIS TORRENT SUCKS DICK AND SO DOES THIS SITE.
#14546 by SevenTwo (n00b) at 2007-11-14 01:18:18 GMT Ah man...bad quality..
#17263 by IloveRedBull (n00b) at 2007-11-23 14:36:53 GMT terrrrriiibbblleee quality...
#20843 by twostoned (Power User) at 2007-12-11 00:25:00 GMT RIP OiNK 28/09/07
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 07:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha where is that from
― maura, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
comments from a torrent on stmusic.0rg
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
what.cd is sweet
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
really?? stmusic is kinda sucky.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
yah its just like oink only not quite as big yet
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
(invite?) (lol asking for torrent invite on ilx)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dont have any yet - but i did get mine by begging on torrent site message boards
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Still building their case:
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-bail-extend-080204/
― StanM, Monday, 4 February 2008 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh... would it really kill these people to buy a fucking cd/record every now and then?
― winston, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
the thing is, they want every cd/record. kind of expensive for most OCD music "fans"
― elan, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Starting to arrest seeders
http://torrentfreak.com/british-police-confirm-oink-arrests-080602/
― StanM, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Watch out, Trent R.!
wowz
― jhøshea, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Blimey.
― Pashmina, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
uhhhhhh
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 June 2008 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol oink probs, oink, like a pig, like swine flu, oink.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
No OINK Probs.
Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud
― Alba, Friday, 15 January 2010 17:31 (7 months ago) Permalink