:(

BBC Article

Sad day for the internets.

an illegal website shutdown?

im not crying.

Oh, ok. Thats fair enough if you don't pirate anything.

yeh pretty sad... one torrent site out of zillions closed down... for now... till it springs up again in a country where western law isn't heeded. ;p till then i guess ppls will hae to use some other torrent site, or an irc distro channel, other p2p software, ftps or hell!, even the local music shop for a larf! ;]

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

oh oh spaghettios!

I guess you're not an oink user.

There is nothing remotely like oink on the internet. It had so much music that is just unattainable, even legally.

180,000 users.

It will not be replaced anytime soon.

oink had a huge user base....soon enough a new similar site will pop up and the old user base will migrate... give it a few months to populate and it will be just like oink. cant stop the warez yo

...sucks until then though

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

the ARIA/RIAA aren't ones to drop a grudge.

the ARIA/RIAA aren't ones to drop a grudge.

ARIA and RIAA aren't even involved in this instance, it's all in the UK/Netherlands.

ARIA certainly arent involved anyway, Interpol + Some Dutch authority.

if you think the record industry associations of different nations don't share information you are kidding yourself.

i havent even heard of oink before. i r warez noob :(

beatport/juno ftw

Ara, I find it hard to believe anything you say since you are so against piracy. How do I know you're not RIAA getting up in my s***?

Same here StreX, I only use heard of Torrentspy and Mininova.

Ooo and pirate bay

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if you think the record industry associations of different nations don't share information you are kidding yourself.

if you think that Australian and US organizations are going to litigate end users based on data from this site you are kidding yourself.

That's ok they will lock up the entire world in prisons so we can't download the internet.

Never heard of Oink .. and I juarez heaps!

How do I know you're not RIAA getting up in my s***?

haha, whatever.

what is your name, DOB and address?

Oink was the s***, it will be sadly missed until something else pops up.

No one is scared of getting identified and raped?

oh noes my ratio!

zomg noes!

interpol are involved! when they bust down my door for piracy i'll ask them to sign my shirt

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not really that suprising but still a shame, no site will be able to match oinks back log of rare and classic titles for quite some time.

Geez, learn to peerguardian.

Peerguardian won't help if they have the information of those who downloaded from Oink will it? Plus wiping hard drive won't help.

theyre coming to get you alize!!

quick, throw your warez infested computar out teh wind0w!

I didn't think peer guardian blocked your IP address. That would be too easy.

Why'd i get nuked? kek

Fill in your details here and you will get a written explaination.

btw

New York, NY - United States authorities have issued a stern warning
to American users of Oink, the popular file sharing portal shut down
by Dutch and British police this week: You are not off the hook.

In a historic partnership with the RIAA, Federal authorities are now
suggesting that they will seek to prosecute Oink users who have
downloaded or shared in excess of 50 albums.

"We will follow up. If we don't, this will never stop. This
BitTorrent stuff has to be stopped now. Oink users knew what they
were doing was wrong. They even had a system in place to extend
invitations to potential users, thus making the problem worse,"
commented RIAA President Hilary Rosen on Tuesday.

Details regarding the investigation of American users will reportedly
surface in early November.

haha Strex I don't use Oink I'm just interested to see what comes of this. Private trackers aren't as safe as you think they are these days ay....

^^
Dan did you read that?

if you think that Australian and US organizations are going to litigate end users based on data from this site you are kidding yourself.

Rofl, there is like a 200 page thread on OT of people s***ting themselves.

Its pretty lol.

I highly doubt anything will happen here in aus, have ARIA actually prosecuted anyone over music yet?

Dan did you read that?

What we have here is commonly referred to as FUD.

What we have here is commonly referred to as FUD.

A Female Urination Device ?
http://www.collisiondetection.net/images/urinecontrol.jpg

What we have here is commonly referred to as FUD.

haha, yeah cause we all know the RIAA don't sue people who download music.

One of the worst days in the history of the internets, Oink was simply the best music torrent site ever :(

Oink was simply the best music torrent site ever :(

sifnt mixing bowl

lol ur all newbs if you can't find music on the intarwebs

plus private trackers ftw

I find most of my music on itunes...

i know someone who's u/l and d/l total about 350gb. apparently some of the big users are in the couple of terabytes range.

how many songs does 350gig equate to?

about a hundred thousand songs. literally.

oink was good for non-music too

ebooks, audiobooks (fict&non), mac, phone & winapps. it wasn't just music.

good ebook sites are hard to find.. back2usenet.

maybe they will resurrect it. (yn)

huh? Hilary Rosen president of riaa? i thought it was someone else now???

Link

Questions from Oink users to "OiNk" since the raids.

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do you think most of the people in this channel are asking asshat questions?

yes

Rofl