really?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. See http://idolator.com/tunes/get-ready-for-more-lawsuits/record-labels-to-finally-get-money-from-a-filesharer-307494.php and http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9588_22-6213649.html
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
When our world changed forever...
While the void on OINK.CD website became an ever-present reminder of unspeakable loss, it also opened a space of deep courage, compassion and triumph of human spirit.
Is this for real? Or someone taking the piss?
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think the RIAA tried to settle with her for the usual couple thousand dollars, but she decided to fought it. From what I've read her case was really, really weak and the jury sided with the RIAA - so now she's faced with much, much higher fines.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
s1ocki, if you're talking about the woman in MN, they only sued her after she was dumb enough to reject the initial settlement and claim that they couldn't prove that she was the user that uploaded the songs.
Unfortunately for her, they could.
xposts:yep
― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://aynrandwich.googlepages.com/pigarrest.jpg
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
what if you never uploaded anything?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
that's not how bittorrent works; you almost certainly uploaded _something_
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
seeding?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
yaha
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
by uploading i meant putting shit up on oink itself
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag
People, who expected the owner of Oink to have decent-sized biceps?????????????????
― Confounded, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
must be down to lifting ALL THOSE BAGS OF CASH he was making from hi LUCRATIVE SITE. oh, hang on ...
i know of one valiant editor who is pruning some of the more idiotic lies from PA's copy as i type. i dread what most of the rest of the UK press will print tomorrow.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
so many pretty blatant distortions in that bbc report
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
The PA one is woeful. They're desperately trying to make it into an INTERNATIONAL MONEY-MAKING operation. The pay off is genius: "Copyright theft is ... vandalising our culture".
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
who's saying that?
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
o, rite. SHOCKAH.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Any precedent for Canadians getting sued?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
If I go down for oinking Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You" (12-inch version), the world is FUCKED UP
― Confounded, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
There's precious little reporting going on that I can see. It's just a screed from Mr Police Man and Mr Record company.
Right enough, we don't often bother with what the criminal element says. "I think it's outrageous that they've got this £80m haul of cocaine. It's going to send the price rocketing, and I was going out this weekend".
xpsts
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha Confounded. "Well, y'rronner, I think listening to Dan Hartman was punishment enough."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone ever been prosecuted for using BitTorrent?
― Dandy Don Weiner, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
oink.justgotowned.com
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://torrentfreak.com//images/elitet.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow - read that original article on the bust - Interpol led up the raid and arrest - that's one pissed off band!
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.losanjealous.com/img/06/a/neilhamburger.jpg
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^this is what i've looked like all day.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
also BanIronPrison.
That BBC report clip on youtube is worth watching for the montage of file footage on music piracy that includes napster, winamp, and a sound clip of 'the real slim shady.'
― mh, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Day The Free Music Died" will be one headline.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Moo me, UK
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
now that we have this we don't need any other music anyway
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://rawkblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/critical-backlash-why-we-need-oink.html
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
im grieving oink as much as the next guy, but fuck. what should we expect from a blog called "The Rawking Refuses To Stop!" though.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
FACT: that article is naive
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i could never get an invite, so i'm glad the fuckers went down
― mitya, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck, i was going to DL like 3 gigs today for a dj set this week.
and i had just made power user ;_;
― gr8080, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
A stolen candybar is not a lost sale. The kids with the most candy are hoarding them because they can, not because they're trying to save money on paying for candy. No one is ever going to go out and buy 5-10 snickers bars a week, but that's about how many a good chunk of us download.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish i could illegally download a corporate milky way right now
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
No one is ever going to go out and buy 5-10 snickers bars a week
RONG.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
snickers-breath
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>Along with every other indie college kid, 90% of the shows I go to I wouldn't of gone to if I didn't d/l the album. 90% of the albums I buy I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't downloaded them prior.</i>
!! 'cos no-one went to shows or bought records before oink was invented!
― byebyepride, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Limited edition OiNK Snickers bar:
http://www.slashfood.com/media/2007/02/snickersbacon.jpg
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Home killing is, er, in Soviet Russia, er, oh, nevermind.
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
doesn't mean it isn't true? i haven't read the article, but just because college kids went to shows without having downloaded the album 20 years ago doesn't mean they still do
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
-- mitya, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:56 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^^ this. Oink Administrator burned me.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
opinion piece on oink from dj rupture
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"Word is the Danish branch of the IFPI has "seriously proposed" allowing peer-to-peer downloading in exchange for a small monthly fee charged to all ISP users."
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/music_industry.html
???
(via Coolfer)
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link