OINK Probs???

alba, i get it but i'm still not swallowing that a band or label would complain about a bad rip being on oink, and ask for its removal but disregard the fact that the entire rest of their discography is up there at 320 or flac

I think the removal requests for advances were mostly for stuff that was so advanced it wasn't finished.

see, there's a lesson there, stet.
Is the lesson that somebody's always getting rich, or that the cops talk crap?

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

OTM

life changing event, peoples

-- cutty, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:21 (35 minutes ago) Link

If the charges are "conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law." I wonder how that's going to play in UK courts. Has anyone been done for running a tracker here?

so helpless...

the earlier page warning has been replaced with this:

This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI,
Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into
suspected illegal music distribution.

A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's
users

i mean, an hour or so ago, it just said something along the lines that the site could not be reached.

Has anyone been done for running a tracker here?

They're planning on running this as a test case, maybe?

lawl

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/oinkiloveu.jpg

A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's
users

:(

im not a user but ... yikes

um...what does this mean? hypothetically

http://www.spin.com/features/magazine/images/2007/07/leakgraphic_800.jpg

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Desnoyers-JeanPaulChoppart/pages/010-beating-the-boy/010-beating-the-boy-q75-380x500.jpg

Actually, I think this is what happens except in Sweden:

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/pages/003-Suspended-by-the-thumbs/

http://i23.tinypic.com/2093qfq.gif

i'm so bummed i haven't laughed at this thread at all, but that is funny.

all i know is that i'm stocking up on guns and pepperidge farm goldfish

lololol @ jhoshea's gif

OMG they're going to sue 180,000!

i knew it was a joke but did ctrl+f 'oink' on that page just in case u_u

Damn I wonder how wise it was for, um, someone I know, to spend all that time seeding 4d0be stuff just to get his or her ratio up. They're pretty litigious, those guys.

come and get me redcoats

They won't have to. This is already an Interpol operation. Data will be with US authorities soon, I'm sure.

"They won't have to. This is already an Interpol operation. Data will be with US authorities soon, I'm sure."

What exactly does this mean?

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-45782.html

lol i think i mightve seeded cs3 for quite a while myself

Confounded, hold me...

on April 1st UK-T played a hi-larious joke by replacing their homepage with a message not unlike the one now on OiNK. the forums after the scam had been revealed were hysterical - people had been absolutely shitting themselves, and a lot of them didn't find it very funny. with this now, I'm thinking hard drives are getting burned by the dozen.

What exactly does this mean?

Presumably US authorities (and those elsewhere) will be interested in the data recovered from the servers in Amsterdam. The operation to shut down Oink is already inter-force and involves Interpol so there will be few problems for other police forces to get at it.

Right, right, but, are they going to be cracking down on users in any actual way? Is that possible?

possible, yes. likely, dunno.

If you're having Oink problems I feel bad for you, son.

pinkie have you been stealing music

Did OiNK keep logs? I'm assuming it must have to police those "only one account per user, no resigning up and we are checking" rules

yes, logs have been kept of every user's downloaded torrents for about a year now iirc

cutty can i retain u ?????????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag

there was the option to turn the download logs off (which i did!) - not sure if that information wasnt being captured some other way tho

as for legal ramifications - in the us only 0 day release group types have been prosecuted. regular user have been sued - generally settling for a couple thousand bucks.

what about the single mom who was sued for $220K??

http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/

She was originally fined much less that the $220K, that was the result of her court loss when trying to fight back with horrible "evidence".

really?

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

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?

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.

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.

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