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.
― filthy dylan, Monday, 2 July 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
(and there's so much more) than soulseek
haha no
― ☪, Monday, 2 July 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't have to upload new "stuff" to get keep your ratio up
― cutty, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― pacifikix, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
to everything you said: NO
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Monday, 2 July 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― pacifikix, Monday, 2 July 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
new domain: oink.cd
― pinder, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
New domain, and make sure to re-download your old torrents from the new site.
― musically, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
They got raided last night, I am hearing on the radio. :/
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
where were the servers located? the uk?
― lucas pine, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
So can oink users be sued or anything now they have access to email addresses and shit?
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1779471.0.police_swoop_to_close_down_illegal_website.php
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
So, servers in Netherlands, rather.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Can they go after people for just being members of the site?
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
So what kind of oink googlers are we going to get in future, then?
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Oink RIP I guess
― Snowballing, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:05 (sixteen years ago) link
invite?
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
TV Links got busted yesterday as well.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
;__;
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3454/cryingeagle8oqil3.jpg
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.blingee.com/images14/content/output/2007/10/23/251737193_4b375d33.gif
― roffle roffle, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG!
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_01/NetPedoR_468x331.jpg
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
So where are we getting our music from now then? I've not gotta go back to fucking Soulseek have I?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― roffle roffle, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Both Oink and the IFPI are idiots.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck where am i going to get leopard from. d3m0n01d next?
― cutty, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I am seriously gutted about TVLinks.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
You'll be able to get Leopard from Pirate Bay if you're not on any of the invite-only Mac trackers.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"first they came for belly button ring, and i said nothing..."
― ^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Have there been any cases yet where authorities have gone after bittorrent seeders, as well as site operators?
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Confounded, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-- ^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:56 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
OMG MP!
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
― cutty, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
hey pash, your presence is requested on I LOVE TO RIDE MY BICYCLE board
http://i21.tinypic.com/24ne88n.jpg
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Dammit. The cops are going on about how it was "hugely lucrative", too.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
see, there's a lesson there, stet.
i hope karagarga doesn't go. i didn't really care about oink.
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
yah i never uploaded anything there
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
right, they had to post picture of cat power
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
xp
They also fail to mention that they frequently took bad prereleases off at artists' request.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
why would they mention that?
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yah its just like oink only not quite as big yet
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
(invite?) (lol asking for torrent invite on ilx)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont have any yet - but i did get mine by begging on torrent site message boards
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Still building their case:
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-bail-extend-080204/
― StanM, Monday, 4 February 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh... would it really kill these people to buy a fucking cd/record every now and then?
― winston, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
the thing is, they want every cd/record. kind of expensive for most OCD music "fans"
― elan, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Starting to arrest seeders
http://torrentfreak.com/british-police-confirm-oink-arrests-080602/
― StanM, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Watch out, Trent R.!
wowz
― jhøshea, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Blimey.
― Pashmina, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
uhhhhhh
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 June 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1981/295wfu95001351ym0.gif
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
No OINK Probs.
Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud
― Alba, Friday, 15 January 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link