OiNK under investigation as arrests are made.

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Grand Master

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Main problem I have with stuff like this, is that it's never fair.

Depending on how good your lawyers are, linking to content can be illegal or legal.

Why does a guy who downloaded some songs get a harsher sentence that somebody who drink and drives?

The people behind it aren't angels, but there are worse things out there to be worried about.

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lovely waste of police time and tax payers money , 2 years to nick a guy thats 24 and for what ? sorry but you didnt have to pay which is aload of **** and secondly what the hell will this achieve ? well done for for grabbing one guy that took you two years while the rest of middlesborough gets worse in reral violent crime , as its just been voted the worst place to live in the country for crime IDIOTS

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I always find it interesting to see the people behind such popular sites. instead of it being some big corporation, its just some guy in a flat with a server lol.

Hehe :) Yeah.. Anyone could do it! ;)

Hmm, but to be serious, I guess that's also kind of the problem.. :p

Btw, I wonder when anonymized and decentralized P2P will start getting more common. Maybe bandwidth still need to increase somewhat, but I think the largest roadblock is basically that they're below critical mass in the number of users, because there are simply even better options still.

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Yes Oink was a great site, and virus free unlike TPB.

I\'m going to miss OiNK so much. Yes a lot of those members sucked while I was on there for close to two years, arrogant nerds. I normally kept to myself and just gave and recieved well from the community. OiNK was great, it\'s a sad day for sure. Watch this all be a hoax and a big joke. I\'d love for that to be fact.

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

can you imagine how much it would cost to track down 1 single user, then prove that they actually were the ones involved in a file share at some point during OiNK's existence...?

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regardless of how you feel about the site, its hard to argue that the best way to stop the common person from pirating music is to come up with a way to distribute everything people are looking for at a reasonable price in the format that they choose.

but the record industry isn't interested in that, so this will go on. im surprised a replacement site with login names and passwords intact hasn't already sprung up.

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Michael1406

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Oink was the new napster..****!!

If OiNK turned into a site where you could pay for the content they had (rare stuff, etc) then I don't think many people would complain. According to people on here it seems that it provided music not available anywhere else. Record companies have access to the material. If there was a site where companies could offer content from their back catalogues then I'm sure people would buy into it.

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Just saw OiNK himself getting arrested on BBC News 24. What a load of lies the media are telling. 'Users paid a subscription fee to download copyrighted music'. They also suggested that he has made hundreds of thousands of pounds profit from the site. It's quite funny seeing how useless they are.

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Man this is just sad, im lucky i got most of what i wannted off of oink the last few days. However, someone should bail Oink out of jail, help he create a new identify then create a new site like what some of the guy at TPB Do

What a very sad day

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag

The police are either unbelievably stupid or taking a nice bribe off the record industry. They were saying you had to pay a subscription to use the site, and that the owner had made hundreds of thousands off it. If so, why is he stuck in that little house?!

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regardless of how you feel about the site, its hard to argue that the best way to stop the common person from pirating music is to come up with a way to distribute everything people are looking for at a reasonable price in the format that they choose.

but the record industry isn't interested in that, so this will go on. im surprised a replacement site with login names and passwords intact hasn't already sprung up.

Too true. I'm against pirating but there are some music that is not released by recording companies. One very good example is music pertaining to soundtracks/score. You find you like a certain tune in a movie and find that it's not available in the CD release or it is a different version altogether. So the only way to find the tune is to sometimes look for it in these sites. Take the Transformers score by Steve Jablonsky for example, with the movie coming out in June but taking more than 4 months for the score to be released. A petition was even made for the score to be released. Thankfully it is and it is really good so all that waiting is worth it, but you get my point.

Another example is when not all the music from the movie is released. This is especially prevalent in movies scored by Hans Zimmer such as Gladiator, The Last Samurai, King Arthur and so on. Titanic is also guilty of this, with nearly half the music still not released to the public. The Back to Titanic CD which was released later with supposedly missing music was rubbish, I'm disgusted that I bought it. So what can we do to find our music since its not released? If the recording industry just release these kind of music in an acceptable format, then I'll be the first in line to get it. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening any time soon.

At least the music for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy is being released in all of its glory (though I've yet to buy it, no budget :cry: ).

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