http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21444566/
― am0n, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed the AP's findings with its own tests — including spotting forged messages sent by Comcast's computers to shut down connections.
This is stupid as hell if they want to maintain common carrier status, unless they're doing this to all torrent traffic. With quality of service crap you could list your policy on bandwidth allocation, but actually screwing with customers' connections by sending bad data is a shoddy business practice at best and malicious at worst.
― mh, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
lol
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
i gave an invite to someone in a pretty hueg band
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)
Trent Reznor: 'It was like the world's greatest record store'
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
see now i wish i had actually tried it.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
he's biting dj /rupture.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)
reznor can afford to pay, the dick.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
oh you're right, i misspoke
― lucas pine, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)
There was about 215000 torrents on oink, I think.
― saudade, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)
mmmmmmmm waffles
― czn, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)
There's a RIAA message on what.cd after you login, apparently.
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)
Oh, and demonoid is gone.
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)
that riaa message on what was a hack. They've been getting haxxored all day.
― saudade, Friday, 9 November 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
yes, waffles ftw.
― alexei, Sunday, 11 November 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
days are actually really short now
― s1ocki, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)
So it's fake in the Northern Hemisphere, you're telling us?
― StanM, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
#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 (eighteen years ago)
haha where is that from
― maura, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)
comments from a torrent on stmusic.0rg
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)
what.cd is sweet
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)
really?? stmusic is kinda sucky.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)
yah its just like oink only not quite as big yet
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)
(invite?) (lol asking for torrent invite on ilx)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)
i dont have any yet - but i did get mine by begging on torrent site message boards
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
Still building their case:
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-bail-extend-080204/
― StanM, Monday, 4 February 2008 19:25 (eighteen years ago)
ugh... would it really kill these people to buy a fucking cd/record every now and then?
― winston, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:42 (eighteen years ago)
the thing is, they want every cd/record. kind of expensive for most OCD music "fans"
― elan, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:26 (eighteen years ago)
Starting to arrest seeders
http://torrentfreak.com/british-police-confirm-oink-arrests-080602/
― StanM, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
Watch out, Trent R.!
wowz
― jhøshea, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:14 (eighteen years ago)
Blimey.
― Pashmina, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:15 (eighteen years ago)
uhhhhhh
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 June 2008 22:55 (eighteen years ago)
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 (seventeen years ago)