the site will be back tomorrow, around tea time.
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the site will be back tomorrow, around tea time.
*haircut
Tea time? See here: https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/p-las...postcount28373
Quit givin' everyone false hope. And what's with your sig?
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Last edited by Alien5; Jun 6th, 2006 at 06:36 PM..
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see here for oink rumor: https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bit...omorrow-243094
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"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."Originally Posted by Melvinmeow
Seriously I think when you own a site who drags too much attention and basically is a huge ca$h cow like OiNK.. what would you think was going to happen ?
I'm just surprised they had some back up on the NL side
Last edited by iNSOMNiA; 10-25-2007 at 12:04 AM.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Darth Monk Like.
Do you think he may have been lying about the level of donations towards the "server costs".
You do not need to see my I.D.
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hosting company said the server cost 35K euros. I wonder if that's monthly or annually.Do you think he may have been lying about the level of donations towards the "server costs".
if you own a major copyright infringement site in the UK, the UK will kick your ass. the UK laws are the strongest in the world. bs is not tolerated in the UK.
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And another one gone,
and another one gone,
Another one bites the dust
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I think that's what they cost to buy, the machines themselves. They were enquiring when they would be getting their machines back as they were about 30,000 Euro. That's not the guy who owned oink, it's the people who owned the servers he had it on, as I understand it. Could be wrong but.hosting company said the server cost 35K euros. I wonder if that's monthly or annually.
I suspect the rental was really what it said on the screen, a few hundred, that's only based on what it says on some sites I go to. The chaps here could possibly give you a good idea.
If there were 180,000 members and 1% (1 in 100) of those donated every month. That's 1,800 donations. If they donated £5 each, that's £9,000/Month or £108,000 a year. I doubt there was much tax paid on it, so it's the equivalent of earning about £150,000 a year. Not bad for doing fuck all. I just made those figures up so it could be much higher. It's also the reason why they have taken this action.
That's what happens on torrent sites, that's the business model.
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From the ifpi website
British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site
London, 23rd October 2007
British and Dutch police today shut down the world’s biggest source of illegal pre-release chart albums and arrested a 24-year old man in an operation coordinated between Middlesbrough and Amsterdam.
The raids, which were coordinated by Interpol, follow a two-year investigation by the international and UK music industry bodies IFPI and BPI into the members-only online pirate pre-release club known as OiNK.
OiNK specialised in distributing albums leaked on to the internet, often weeks ahead of their official release date. More than 60 major album releases have been leaked on OiNK so far this year, making it the primary source worldwide for illegal pre-release music.
The site, with an estimated membership of 180,000, has been used by many hardcore file-sharers to violate the rights of artists and producers by obtaining copyrighted recordings and making them available on the internet.
It is alleged that the site was operated by a 24-year-old man in the Middlesbrough area, who was arrested today. The site’s servers, based in Amsterdam, were seized in a series of raids last week. OiNK’s operator allegedly made money by setting up a donations account on the site facilitated by PayPal.
Cleveland Police and the FIOD-ECD SCHIPOL branch of the Dutch police undertook the raids, supported by Interpol, as part of a carefully-planned international investigation with anti-piracy investigators from IFPI and BPI.
OiNK used peer-to-peer technology called BitTorrent to distribute music. Torrent sites such as OiNK act as a library for torrent files. BitTorrent is the most popular software for internet file sharing and OiNK was the best-known for pre-release piracy.
Pre-release piracy – a growing problem
Pre-release leaks are one of the most damaging forms of internet piracy that is currently eroding legitimate sales of music across the world. Recorded music sales fell by more than a third internationally in the last six years, and independent studies show that a major factor in this decline has been internet users accessing peer-to-peer networks to steal music online.
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.
Closed internet communities known as “ripping groups” often get demos, early mixes of commercial releases and promotional copies of pre-release albums in advance of release with a view to distributing the music as widely and as far ahead of release as possible. Each ripping group gains cachet amongst its peers for being the first to get new music and uses torrent sites to distribute the music as widely as possible.
OiNK operated an exclusive membership scheme by which users were only invited to join the site if they could prove that they had music to offer. 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 recording industry says that the closure of the site is an important victory in the industry’s bid to tackle copyright theft.
Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said: “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.
“This operation was a classic example of how the recording industry can work with law enforcement agencies to prove that illegal operations on the internet are not immune from detection.”
BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor said: “BitTorrent has fast become the most popular file sharing client, and while the technology is now commonplace, closed criminal networks such as OiNK take time to develop; make no mistake, this operation will cause major disruption to this illegal activity.
“The government is now well aware of the scale of damage this theft causes to music – copyright theft starves the creative industries of income, which both threatens future investment in artists and vandalises our culture.
“That this individual now faces criminal charges will deter some but no doubt others will be looking move into this territory, and the authorities must keep up the pressure to deter the digital freeloaders.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
The search in Amsterdam was conducted under the authorisation of the District Attorney Ms A. Drogt from the Functioneel Parket in Amsterdam. This department specialises in intellectual property crimes.
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