OINK Probs???

pirate bay c/d?

The idea of pirate bay as a discussion point to get things moving: c
The fact that it still is, well, stealing and illegal: d

no i mean as a reputable place to illegaly download music.

it's rubbish. try what.cd or wait a day for waffles, the great white hope. or whatever the oinkers have planned.

from #waffles.fm-chat:

[6:12pm] notlucky: all asians are gay?
[6:12pm] JfuckinGlass: Yup
[6:12pm] notlucky:
[6:12pm] hellohello: yeah
[6:12pm] hellohello: and the frenchies too
[6:13pm] xt3rm: i think 25% of america is gay

bring back oink, thx.

BOINK.CD load testing and early boink torrent upload FORMER OINK MEMBERS ONLY

I don't really cotton to this "oink members only stuff"--what's going on right now could be a tremendous opportunity for new people to get involved and start to appreciate flac etc., quality and dedication should be the criteria that helps select people for torrent communities, not screen caps and BS. As someone has already said somewhere else 'how many people were banned from oink every day?' because they couldn't toe the line. These same people can be banned anew wherever they turn up.

And Fourfoldvision, you are so totally otm about finding something so rare on oink that it was like your personal musical holy grail, the record that you thought you would never see, let alone hear in a good rip with the liner notes and everything. sigh.

what's going on right now could be a tremendous opportunity for new people to get involved

yeh, like cops :)

If only people put as much energy into reshaping the music industry as they do into finding new ways to download illegally.

^^these 2 things are not mutually exclusive.

True... I'm just sayin' is all.

word 'em up jon /via/ chi 2.0

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21444566/

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.

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/

Haha. Trent Reznor is a copyright violating OiNK user:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_williams.html

lol

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

i gave an invite to someone in a pretty hueg band

Trent Reznor: 'It was like the world's greatest record store'

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*

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.

there was never anything, no matter how obscure, that I couldn't find there, with enough seeders that it downloaded in a few minutes.

see now i wish i had actually tried it.

Wow, Trent's comments are actually some of the most sensible I've read so far about OiNK.

he's biting dj /rupture.

reznor can afford to pay, the dick.

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.

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

yeah, that's def an overstatement, but doesn't change the fact that it dwarfed the selection of any record shop, online or not

Hmm ... I'm fairly sure Amazon offered a far bigger catalogue overall, even if OINK was more focussed on things I might want.

oh you're right, i misspoke

There was about 215000 torrents on oink, I think.

mmmmmmmm waffles

There's a RIAA message on what.cd after you login, apparently.

Oh, and demonoid is gone.

that riaa message on what was a hack.
They've been getting haxxored all day.

Prince to sue The Pirate Bay http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9814504-7.html?tag=nefd.blgs

yes, waffles ftw.

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?

you may want to check the waffles invites thread on I Rate Everything. just search ilx 'waffles invites'

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

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.

days are actually really short now

So it's fake in the Northern Hemisphere, you're telling us?

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.

#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

haha where is that from

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