-matthEw- Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Huge pirate music site shut downHuge pirate music site shut down Police also raided the home of the IT worker's father British and Dutch police have shut down one of the world's biggest sources of illegally-downloaded music. A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK. The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning. The IT worker was led from his home in the town's Grange Road and is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law. Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found IFPI spokesman At the same time his employer - a large multi-national company - and his father's home were also raided. A Cleveland Police spokesman said: "This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up. Membership was by invitation only. "The site allowed the uploading and downloading of pre-release music and media to thousands of members. "Members paid 'donations' via debit or credit cards, ensuring their continued access to the site." Users were only invited to join the site if they could prove that they had music to offer, according to an IFPI spokesman. Unfinished versions He said: "They were encouraged to distribute recordings in the torrent file format with other OiNK members, and have to keep posting such music to the site to maintain their membership. "Once an album had been posted on the OiNK website, the users that download that music then passed the content to other websites, forums and blogs, where multiple copies were made. "Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found further down the illegal online supply chain." The site's servers, based in Amsterdam, were seized in a series of raids last week. It follows a two-year investigation by music industry bodies the IFPI and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Pre-release piracy is particularly damaging to sales as it leads to early mixes and unfinished versions of artists' recordings circulating on the internet months ahead of the release. ----------------------god damn. i absolutely loved that place. i've downloaded over 100 Gb from Oink, and have an amazing ratio too. had been saving up those invites. don't they realise its not going to change anything though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la mula Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 I'm actually devastated. Guess I'll have to start using soulseek again. It's weird to think that a guy has had his house raided and is being questioned just so I could download music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camie Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Holy shit...never really expected that to happen. I got thrown off that after lack of activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-matthEw- Posted October 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 where the hell am i going to get vinyl only single b-sides now?? there goes my The Coral b-side collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 where the hell am i going to get vinyl only single b-sides now?? there goes my The Coral b-side collection. err......by caring enough to buy the vinyl ? (if it's that important)...or are we talking records that are so hard to come by, nabbing them as MP3's is the only option (? in that case...sorry for your loss!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 where the hell am i going to get vinyl only single b-sides now?? there goes my The Coral b-side collection. Oh, i'm sure somewhere else will open up to cover the gap, always does in these cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-matthEw- Posted October 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 err......by caring enough to buy the vinyl ? (if it's that important)...or are we talking records that are so hard to come by, nabbing them as MP3's is the only option (? in that case...sorry for your loss!)a mixture of both. and the fact i dont have have a record player in my flat! and that most months im faced with the option of buying cds or buying food to eat.anyway, what made oink great was the rarity of the stuff it had. some stuff that literally couldnt be found anywhere else on the web with the added bonus of being great quality. something else will take its place, its just going to take a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 a mixture of both. and the fact i dont have have a record player in my flat! and that most months im faced with the option of buying cds or buying food to eat.anyway, what made oink great was the rarity of the stuff it had. some stuff that literally couldnt be found anywhere else on the web with the added bonus of being great quality. something else will take its place, its just going to take a while.yup, there were some badass vinyl rips from the 70s that you will never ever have the opportunity to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 oink will be back this weekend with the backups but it will be hosted and run by the tpb team. all ratios will be intact. alan is fineapparently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 TV Links recently went a similair way for those that care:Major pirate website shut down | | Guardian Unlimited Business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camie Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Deary me, I really hope they don't get onto the sites that I use as tv-links was half decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la mula Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 apparentlyWhere did you get that from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClicheGuevara Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 If you're interested Ahem. is the blog of one of the moderators there, Paine. There's also a semi-official forum and irc channel being used.It used to get backed up every morning so it's possible about getting it back, but who knows. No plans at this time. And yeah, alan (OiNK) is out on bail until december. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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