OINK Probs???

just stopped working for me again, even with the host file info.

same here

ditto

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.

(and there's so much more) than soulseek

haha no

you don't have to upload new "stuff" to get keep your ratio up

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!

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.

to everything you said: NO

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.

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.

new domain: oink.cd

New domain, and make sure to re-download your old torrents from the new site.

They got raided last night, I am hearing on the radio. :/

where were the servers located? the uk?

Yep.

So can oink users be sued or anything now they have access to email addresses and shit?

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1779471.0.police_swoop_to_close_down_illegal_website.php

So, servers in Netherlands, rather.

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

Can they go after people for just being members of the site?

So what kind of oink googlers are we going to get in future, then?

Oink RIP I guess

invite?

TV Links got busted yesterday as well.

;__;

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3454/cryingeagle8oqil3.jpg

http://image.blingee.com/images14/content/output/2007/10/23/251737193_4b375d33.gif

OMG!

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_01/NetPedoR_468x331.jpg

Can they go after people for just being members of the site?

No, that's not of itself an offense anywhere I understand copyright law. But presumably most of the people who were members were also illegally violating copyright (boo! hiss!) Who knows what kind of logs they've got from the server in Amsterdam.

So where are we getting our music from now then? I've not gotta go back to fucking Soulseek have I?

Bah. Record companies should PAY these guys for promoting new music way more than most of their own promotional departments.

But no, they still stand by their old "prerelease music is teh evil" - guys, shutting down this one site is only going to help temporarily, because it doesn't address the underlying problem.

;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;

o where are we getting our music from now then? I've not gotta go back to fucking Soulseek have I?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/media/pa_hmv_front_203.jpg

Both Oink and the IFPI are idiots.

fuck where am i going to get leopard from. d3m0n01d next?

I am seriously gutted about TVLinks.

You'll be able to get Leopard from Pirate Bay if you're not on any of the invite-only Mac trackers.

"first they came for belly button ring, and i said nothing..."

Have there been any cases yet where authorities have gone after bittorrent seeders, as well as site operators?

http://blog.orgday.org/wp-content/images/misc/oink_sm.jpg

Hey there Pink Palace
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me, girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Pink Palace
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

http://blog.orgday.org/wp-content/images/misc/oink_sm.jpg

"first they came for belly button ring, and i said nothing..."

-- ^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:56 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OMG MP!

haha

hey pash, your presence is requested on I LOVE TO RIDE MY BICYCLE board

http://i21.tinypic.com/24ne88n.jpg

Dammit. The cops are going on about how it was "hugely lucrative", too.

see, there's a lesson there, stet.

i hope karagarga doesn't go. i didn't really care about oink.

The BBC seem to have taken out that earlier guff about how users had to pay to maintain their memembership, though. The IFPI line about "users "only (being) invited to join the site if they could prove that they had music to offer" is rubbish too.

yah i never uploaded anything there

right, they had to post picture of cat power

comments from a torrent on stmusic.0rg

what.cd is sweet

really?? stmusic is kinda sucky.

yah its just like oink only not quite as big yet

(invite?) (lol asking for torrent invite on ilx)

i dont have any yet - but i did get mine by begging on torrent site message boards

Still building their case:

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-bail-extend-080204/

ugh... would it really kill these people to buy a fucking cd/record every now and then?

the thing is, they want every cd/record. kind of expensive for most OCD music "fans"

Starting to arrest seeders

http://torrentfreak.com/british-police-confirm-oink-arrests-080602/

Watch out, Trent R.!

wowz

Blimey.

uhhhhhh

lol oink probs, oink, like a pig, like swine flu, oink.

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1981/295wfu95001351ym0.gif

No OINK Probs.

Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud