OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested

[gamepin126]

The British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations. The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.

According to early reports OiNk’s servers were confiscated in Amsterdam last week. This seems to be unlikely because the site was still fully functional 24 hours ago. The administrator of OiNK was arrested this morning by the Cleveland Police. The BBC reports that his employer and the home of his father were raided as well.

Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: “OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”

OiNK hosted hundreds and thousands of torrents with over a million peers which makes it more popular than most public trackers. The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it.

In July the tracker already changed its name from OiNK.me.uk to OiNK.cd due to “legal” issues with their domain registrar. Unfortunately it now seems that the popular private BitTorrent tracker is in bigger trouble.

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OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested | TorrentFreak

[Calavera]

Hope they don't go after the users. :]

[gamepin126]

Hope they don't go after the users. :]

Yea, me too. I only had like 2gb (something like that, I forgot) downloaded there anyways.

[Chiups]

Damn, thats friggin lame.

[Indefinite]

Hope they don't go after the users. :]

Well, first of all, they would have to go after thousands, if not millions, of users. Kinda hard to imagine.

Besides, it's pretty easy to just leave a dead-end in their searches.

[HARD_ON]

A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's
users

lol, ****.

Edit: Also, the anti-piracy corp sucks at html. Maybe they should pirate a ebook or two.

[Logos]

Crap. I hope there's nothing on these servers that would hold in court against the users. BitTorrent is supposed to be 'safe'.

[Ctark]

Torrents are safe, as you get pieces from multiple people, in order for you to be tried guilty everyone you downloaded a piece from would have to come in and testify...
Just not worth there time...
Also that sucks.

[Super]

Good thing the torrents i downloaded from there weren't from any major record labels that would sue me. I only dl'ed about 2.5gb and uploaded 600mb. I seriously hope I don't get ****ed over by this.

[Pete_Zahut]

Sucks for its members

[punture]

This sucks.. I relaly hope Pirate Bay or whatever buys their own island..

[Mookster]

Why.

[Eppie]

If you go to the site now, the little page they put up is so amazingly sucky.
Really, they do need to learn how to use computers.

[gamepin126]

OiNK Admin Released From Custody | TorrentFreak

The OiNK admin contacted TorrentFreak by email which confirms his release. As for the OiNK users, it is highly doubtful that the IFPI or BPI will go after them all, or even one of them. They do know how to scare people with messages like: “A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users”, but there is no evidence that they actually will.

More interesting perhaps, how did they gain access to the OiNK domain, and why are they allowed to spread this propaganda? They are not a law-enforcement agency.

NFOrce, the ISP of OiNK, said today in an interview that they were not aware of any illegal activities surrounding the site. They thought OiNK was hosting a streaming video site or a weblog. Yeah, right.

The BBC did a small report on the arrest with a lot of false information, releasing nonsense statements such as: “illegally downloading music onto his website” and “paying subscriptions to enter the website.” The video of the arrest is shown below, see for yourself.

[CrazyGerbilEater]

Why.

theyll make their own laws, and not be under the juristiction of other countries, the only thing bad about this idea i can think of is they mgiht be taken over by some mercs hired by some anti piracy guys or somthin

[gamepin126]

The whole arrest was made on the basis that OiNK users were paying for membership and access to the torrents, making it a criminal act to profit off copyrighted material. They didn't.

We win.

[Mobilus]

Actually it sounds like the prosecution is going to argue that the site only called them donations but really "excpected" quid pro quo of its members.

Also, the prosecution is going to argue that because there was a "good ratio requirement" that every user was guilty of buying AND selling ("bartering") copyrighted material illegally.

Not sure how it will fly, but if what happened in the US with Jammie Thomas is any indication of the stupidity of courts when it comes to file sharing, then look out everyone.

Next down will probably be Demonoid.

[Chiups]

Next down will probably be Demonoid.

Shall be a sad day for me.

[Mookster]

OiNK will be back.

[dragonnas]

I can't even access demonoid. Can someone PM me an invite code?