OINK Probs???

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1779471.0.police_swoop_to_close_down_illegal_website.php

So, servers in Netherlands, rather.

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

Can they go after people for just being members of the site?

So what kind of oink googlers are we going to get in future, then?

Oink RIP I guess

invite?

TV Links got busted yesterday as well.

;__;

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3454/cryingeagle8oqil3.jpg

http://image.blingee.com/images14/content/output/2007/10/23/251737193_4b375d33.gif

OMG!

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_01/NetPedoR_468x331.jpg

Can they go after people for just being members of the site?

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.

So where are we getting our music from now then? I've not gotta go back to fucking Soulseek have I?

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.

;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;

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

Both Oink and the IFPI are idiots.

fuck where am i going to get leopard from. d3m0n01d next?

I am seriously gutted about TVLinks.

You'll be able to get Leopard from Pirate Bay if you're not on any of the invite-only Mac trackers.

"first they came for belly button ring, and i said nothing..."

Have there been any cases yet where authorities have gone after bittorrent seeders, as well as site operators?

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

http://blog.orgday.org/wp-content/images/misc/oink_sm.jpg

"first they came for belly button ring, and i said nothing..."

-- ^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:56 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OMG MP!

haha

hey pash, your presence is requested on I LOVE TO RIDE MY BICYCLE board

http://i21.tinypic.com/24ne88n.jpg

Dammit. The cops are going on about how it was "hugely lucrative", too.

see, there's a lesson there, stet.

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

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.

yah i never uploaded anything there

right, they had to post picture of cat power

xp

They also fail to mention that they frequently took bad prereleases off at artists' request.

why would they mention that?

that doesnt really make it any more of a moral gray area dude

they also fail to mention how it used to be so awesome that you could download entire label discographies

life changing event, peoples

"Justify My OINK"

they forgot to mention how sad theyre making everyone

i don't swallow that at all - do you mean artists would rather have a 320kb prerelease than a shitty 160kb one? how could that be?

xxposts to myself

LOL at jhøshea

xxxx-post
but then half the albums in the discography would be badly-tagged and 128kbps

RIP many hours spent wishing for a hard drive w/ space on it

Jed - I think they mean artists are unhappy at unfinished mixes (not low bitrate versions) of stuff circulating. Though that seems a bogus point to make in reference to oink, as I don't think unfinished mixes were allowed under the site's strict quality rules anyway (I might be wrong on this).

It's kind of weird that servers were seized last week but stayed in operation till this morning.

COLLECTING EVIDENCE. I wonder if the Teesside dude knew they'd been seized.

tvlinks NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

FUCK an everyone.

is the thing about the servers being taken last week necessarily true, given the other inaccuracies? you kinda think the admins would have noticed!

No OINK Probs.

Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud