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Acid Gaz · Post by **Acid Gaz** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:38 am

Don't some of you lot use this site?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:58 am

well fuck.

stargurl · Post by **stargurl** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:41 pm

Kagey · Post by **Kagey** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:08 pm

bacon sandwiches

Timbob · Post by **Timbob** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:02 pm

Noooo
they be stealing my buc.. Ratioz!

damnit
Well, it was illegal. But still.... sucks monkeyballs

the PLA · Post by **the PLA** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:26 pm

F@CK!!!

I thought the USA, RIAA & MPAA were the big evil bastards in this fight, but it looks like the UK isn't f@ckin' around anymore either. This is the second guy in a week they've raided overthere.

Unfortunately, I think this just the begining of a very strong worldwide anti-piracy push.

Dollydagger · Post by **Dollydagger** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:37 pm

I heard this on the radio. They also said they may go after some of the 'users' and try make an example of them

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:54 pm

Dollydagger wrote:They also said they may go after some of the 'users' and try make an example of them

scare tactics, not gonna happen. nobody panic

the news stories have been full of bullshit, saying that the guy was running the site as a huge money-making venture, and that people had to pay for continued access to download music. bollocks. the site accepted voluntary donations, as many sites do including this one, and i doubt they even covered the running costs. oh, and that the site was the source of pre-release album leaks, also untrue, almost all pre-release rips originate from 'the scene', before spreading everywhere on the net (including oink, until recently

). i don't know if the original news story was wilfully spreading the propaganda, or just falling for whatever lies they were fed, but it's amazing how many other news sources (major ones, including the bbc) just parrotted the same misinformation almost word-for-word. shockingly poor lazy journalism.

the PLA · Post by **the PLA** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:30 pm

Looks like Norway could be next.

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-down-norwe ... xt-071024/

A bit of good news about the OiNK user database here too, though I was never really worried in the first place.

the PLA · Post by **the PLA** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:51 pm

& here is a log of an IRC chat with OiNK's Paine after being released from jail.

http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:59 pm

the PLA wrote:& here is a log of an IRC chat with OiNK's Paine after being released from jail.

http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/

the irc chat is with oink (the nickname of the guy who ran the site, as well as being the name of the site). paine was another staff member who wasn't arrested.

just so's you know

the PLA · Post by **the PLA** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:30 pm

Ah, thanks.

the PLA · Post by **the PLA** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:38 pm

Maybe you former OiNK users in the UK should be worried after all.........

OiNK Investigation: Police Start Making Arrests

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:25 pm

it's questionable whether there's any truth behind that torrentfreak story. has anyone seen it reported anywhere else?

www.loopzorbital.com

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