OiNK Busted…
More Bittorrent news. OiNK has been shut down. I never even used this site personally but I use many just like it. It will be interesting to see what develops from this. Go to Torrentfreak for the best updated info if this interests/concerns you.
Torrent site OiNK sent to the slaughter, one arrested
Writer: Jeremy Goldmeier
News, Published online on 23 Oct 2007 Think of the industry crackdown on music piracy as Prohibition and OiNK as one of the world’s most notorious speakeasies. With over 180,000 users across the globe, this little piggy routinely went to the black market to leak major albums before their official release dates. To be sure, it wasn’t a Napster-sized phenomenon. But OiNK’s membership roster included a great number of bloggers and other musical opinion-shapers. So the blogosphere basically had a collective seizure this morning when the following message appeared on the OiNK homepage:
“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”
Ahhhh! The fuzz!
“Time to buy a new hard drive and install everything and dump the old one, in case you get subpoena’d. Or buy copies of your entire library,” advised user Clamps in response to Stereogum’s article on the crackdown.
But slow down a minute… just who in the world are those acronyms behind the investigation? Here’s a little primer on the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization sworn to uphold the world’s sacred anti-piracy laws. Together with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), IFPI had been investigating OiNK for the past two years.
Today, British and Dutch police raided the home of a 24-year-old man in Middlesbrough, England, who is allegedly the site’s admin. Interpol (which coordinated the sting) also seized the website’s servers in Amsterdam. As we’ve come to expect from them, the folks at The Daily Swam are all over this story, posting plenty of updates and providing a link to BBC-shot video of the actual raid…
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