It's kind of weird that servers were seized last week but stayed in operation till this morning.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
COLLECTING EVIDENCE. I wonder if the Teesside dude knew they'd been seized.
tvlinks NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
FUCK an everyone.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
is the thing about the servers being taken last week necessarily true, given the other inaccuracies? you kinda think the admins would have noticed!
― toby, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess i'm glad my account was about to be deleted due to my bad ratio
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
my bank account that is
yeah, that's the ticket
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
vote this up batches: http://reddit.com/info/5yxe9/comments
― Oink Administrator, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
p.s. my brother on Oink: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/oink_raids/
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
back to soulseek, nothing to see here
― am0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the removal requests for advances were mostly for stuff that was so advanced it wasn't finished.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
see, there's a lesson there, stet. Is the lesson that somebody's always getting rich, or that the cops talk crap?
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope karagarga doesn't go. i didn't really care about oink.
OTM
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
life changing event, peoples
-- cutty, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:21 (35 minutes ago) Link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:59 (sixteen years 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?
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, an hour or so ago, it just said something along the lines that the site could not be reached.
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone been done for running a tracker here?
They're planning on running this as a test case, maybe?
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
lawl
― am0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/oinkiloveu.jpg
― Oink Administrator, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
im not a user but ... yikes
um...what does this mean? hypothetically
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/features/magazine/images/2007/07/leakgraphic_800.jpg
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Desnoyers-JeanPaulChoppart/pages/010-beating-the-boy/010-beating-the-boy-q75-380x500.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, I think this is what happens except in Sweden:
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/pages/003-Suspended-by-the-thumbs/
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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