http://i23.tinypic.com/2093qfq.gif
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm so bummed i haven't laughed at this thread at all, but that is funny.
― later arpeggiator, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
all i know is that i'm stocking up on guns and pepperidge farm goldfish
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lololol @ jhoshea's gif
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG they're going to sue 180,000!
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i knew it was a joke but did ctrl+f 'oink' on that page just in case u_u
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
come and get me redcoats
― am0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
They won't have to. This is already an Interpol operation. Data will be with US authorities soon, I'm sure.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"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?
― pinkie, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-45782.html
― Confounded, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
lol i think i mightve seeded cs3 for quite a while myself
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Confounded, hold me...
― am0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Right, right, but, are they going to be cracking down on users in any actual way? Is that possible?
― pinkie, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
possible, yes. likely, dunno.
― akm, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
If you're having Oink problems I feel bad for you, son.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
pinkie have you been stealing music
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, logs have been kept of every user's downloaded torrents for about a year now iirc
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
cutty can i retain u ?????????
― am0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
what about the single mom who was sued for $220K??
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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
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