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Oink servers raided, admin arrested
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:25 am
by ProphetOfDeath
Taken from MTV.com
A special message greeted some of the estimated 180,000 paid members of music file-sharing Web site OiNK.cd when they tried to access it on Tuesday: "This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI [International Federation of the Phonographic Industry], BPI [British Phonographic Industry], Cleveland [U.K.] police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch police, into suspected illegal music distribution. A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users."
The site
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:33 am
by Philly
Wow. Just wow.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:44 am
by GametagAeonFlux
That sucks.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:24 am
by Geo
Firstly, it wasn't a paid service. It was invitation only, there were no fee's.
And I was just getting my ratio up aswell, FFS.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:25 am
by GametagAeonFlux
iGeo wrote:Firstly, it wasn't a paid service. It was invitation only, there were no fee's.
I think they meant to say that users were
encouraged to donate.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:04 pm
by SHOUTrvb
There goes the Man trying to keep us down again.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:28 pm
by HPDarkness
I don't think music sharing should be illegal. I think sharing music, promotes bands more than radio/tv. I myself download albums. If I like it, I go buy it to support the artist. If I don't, I obviously delete it. There's no point in keeping music you don't like.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:34 pm
by GametagAeonFlux
HPDarkness1 wrote:I don't think music sharing should be illegal. I think sharing music, promotes bands more than radio/tv.
Not to mention that most bands put the entire album up on Myspace or something at a lower bitrate, or the tons of YouTube videos featuring full songs.
Also, no one even buys CDs anymore, everyone I know just uses iTunes...I highly doubt that music sharing has caused
that large of an impact.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:45 pm
by HPDarkness
I still buy CDs >_>. I doubt bands really give a shit if their music is shared. No matter what, people will still buy music. I always see music stores full of people.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:59 pm
by GametagAeonFlux
HPDarkness1 wrote:I still buy CDs >_>. I doubt bands really give a **** if their music is shared. No matter what, people will still buy music. I always see music stores full of people.
Well, I meant a vast majority, but regardless...
Also, bands (or their record company, whatever) make plenty of money touring too...concerts are always so packed...they're still making a huge profit.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:18 pm
by CabooseJr
This is why I use Napster.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:37 pm
by Senor_Grunt
CabooseJr wrote:This is why I use Napster.
Which napster, the old or new?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:20 pm
by Kirk
Use iTunes
Mainly saying that is because they're putting out a lot of DRM-free music now.
DRM-Free music is what I see as the "great compromise". It's sort of the happy medium between downloading music and buying music... There will always be people downloading music illegally, but if there is DRM-Free music around, I'd be more than twice as likely to buy that than if it was DRM-Protected... And it doesn't have to be iTunes, I was just using that as an example.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:17 pm
by shadowkhas
GametagAeonFlux wrote:Also, bands (or their record company, whatever) make plenty of money touring too...concerts are always so packed...they're still making a huge profit.
The bands themselves generally make a killing off of the concerts, which is why I try to go to bands I like whenever possible. Sure, some portion will go to the promotional group and paying for the venue, but it's a better return than albums.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:25 pm
by noscottno
lol, illegal downloadz.
FUCK TVLINKS IS GONE TOO.
I HATE LIFE
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:14 pm
by Kirk
Yeah,
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:31 pm
by SHOUTrvb
TV-Links was so great. I'm very pissed now.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:31 pm
by JK-47
noscottno wrote:lol, illegal downloadz.
*** TVLINKS IS GONE TOO.
I HATE LIFE
NO!
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:37 am
by Geo
OiNK admin is already back at home. Site should be back up soon, with any luck.
And GTAF, you can't charge someone for encouraging people to donate. I think they made a mistake, because it's invite-only, rogue users were selling invites on other sites.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:31 am
by GametagAeonFlux
iGeo wrote:OiNK admin is already back at home. Site should be back up soon, with any luck.
And GTAF, you can't charge someone for encouraging people to donate. I think they made a mistake, because it's invite-only, rogue users were selling invites on other sites.
...what? So they made this whole grand deal about it, and after a day everything's back to normal? There's no way the site is going to remain the same (i.e. free music torrents).
I know they can't, just stating that media tends to blow things out of proportion and report fallacies.