OINK Probs???

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!

i guess i'm glad my account was about to be deleted due to my bad ratio

my bank account that is

yeah, that's the ticket

vote this up batches:
http://reddit.com/info/5yxe9/comments

What was the minimum bitrate on Oink?

indietorrents.com will probably be of interest to a lot of people here, but they ban discographies and anything released on an RIAA radar.

I don't get the point of indietorrents. Well, I do, I just don't really agree with it. It just seems that by eliminating the RIAA stuff and focusing on more "under the radar" stuff, they are encouraging people to rip-off artists that probably need the money more than the major label guys.

Yeah, I generally agree. The thing I object to is the way they try to make out that this choice is to support the little guy rather than something they've done to reduce the chance of litigation from people who can afford it. The truth is that they probably believe that it is genuinely a bit of both.

I run a label and I deliberately put one of our albums on there just to see what would happen. What happened was someone saw it as permission to put up another of our albums, but we haven't gotten any attributable sales yet. Hmm.

p.s. my brother on Oink: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/oink_raids/

back to soulseek, nothing to see here

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

:(