OiNK raided, man arrested (merged with "oink closed 4 ever")

[AkaiDoresu]

Hahahha cya ya tomorrow at OiNK guys I feel that the forum's gonna explode from people posting how happy they are owned~

[Gish]

I hope the IRC gets back up at least so we can talk about it in a place for members only

[Remi]

I SO can't resist...

[Squizzle]

on a positive note i love squizzels av

[garherd]

Like everybody else, Oink was my favorite music tracker. It makes you wonder that if they can be shut down, so can all the other major trackers. Truly this has been a bad day for all bittorent users.

[rilhouse]

RIP OiNK

[mrnobody]

on a positive note i love squizzels av

[Ghost+Rider]

OiNK Admin Released From Custody
Written by Ernesto on October 23, 2007

After a turbulent day the admin of the raided OiNK.cd was released from custody. At this point it is still unclear what the legal consequences will be, but it is good to see that OiNK is back home.

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.”

[Effer]

they don't have much against oink if he didn't earn money from the site.
the accusations of the ifpi are basically false and the server was in holland (other laws).

i'm sure the oink owner knew exactly about the legal situation.

if this comes to court, i predict he'll get away with a fine.

Is this true? Are you sure about this? Weren't the servers in the UK too?

This is what I was wondering about too, it seemed pretty improbable that the guy who ran the site didn't prepare for this legalwise.

[Ghost+Rider]

they don't have much against oink if he didn't earn money from the site.
the accusations of the ifpi are basically false and the server was in holland (other laws).

i'm sure the oink owner knew exactly about the legal situation.

if this comes to court, i predict he'll get away with a fine.

Is this true? Are you sure about this? Weren't the servers in the UK too?

This is what I was wondering about too, it seemed pretty improbable that the guy who ran the site didn't prepare for this legalwise.

yes the servers were both in UK and Holland
U can't run so big site with a fuckin holland server