This little piggy got shut down
 

Well, it was only a matter of time, I suppose, before the infiltration of private bittorrent sites commence.

Huge pirate music site shut down

British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music.


A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.

The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.

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British police arrested the site owner, his server in the Netherlands were seized by Dutch Police. Sucks to be those members who've given them huge sums, doesn't it?

Hmmmm.

I once obtained an invitation to OiNK in an attempt to acquire a better filesharing source. However, I found much of the OiNK community to be elitists and their standards absurdly stringent. It seemed that in order to download anything from OiNK, you first had to upload or make available twice as much. And heaven forbid you have basic procedural questions; their FAQs seemed quite unforgiving of people who weren't already experts at creating torrents.

I spent a week reading through the OiNK guides, lurking and studying the patterns of established users. In the end, I didn't like what I saw, an elite cadre of audiophiles who cast a disapproving glare at the music community from within the high walls of their precious, precious ivory tower. Yes, OiNK was a good site for acquiring high quality albums at the earliest moment of opportunity, but the internet benefits from trickle-down theory like nothing else can; I could wait.

I'm not truly sad to see OiNK go. Their place will be assumed by another cackling heap of elitists, I'm sure. But I'm amused by the fervent attempts by Interpol and others to put the damper on technological progress. Eventually, the music industry will understand that technology has outmoded 90% of their business practices. Until then, I'll just continue laughing.

When did you get an invite then? I joined half a year ago, and their rules really weren't that strict, no uploading needed until you had downloaded 5GB, and after that you had pretty low ratio requirements (I believe 0.20 between 5GB and 10GB). They did get stricter if you wanted to change to a power user, but since I already had basically all that I needed, I saw no need for going that far. As far as the community goes, I was never really involved, maybe uploaded a few torrents, but I was more of a leecher, so I don't really know how elitist they were.

I for one am very sad to see Oink go, since it was my number one source for belgian artists (you hardly ever find those on other torrent sites), and they also had some great jazz albums to offer. Hoping that a new similar site will pop up soon.

Crap. Just plain crap. I could almost always find a decent rip of a rare CD at OiNK. I found some new awesome artists there. If I liked what I heard, I would purchase their albums.

Much of the community are jerks. Elitists who snickered at a member who had a question. But if you plug your fingers into your ears, sing a happy song, and stay away from the forums, you can just merrily skip away and download. And the ratio rules weren't as high as you mentioned. They were pretty fair, actually. I'll be darned if I can remember it all, but you had about 5 gigs buffer before your ratio actually counted, which is plenty to upload with.

Oink pretty much epitomizes what you would expect from a dream music sharing site with an awesome community. Sure there were those with an elitist attitude but then again those personalities are all over the web.

It's a real pity. Oink was quality. Pure and simple. Over there you could expect a perfect FLAC or V0 rip, if there was a problem, request a fixed version. I've been with the site for a while and never had any problems at all.

Sad day... sad day

Oh well

I just recently got an invite, and I was really happy to discover Steve Hoffman re-masters through FLAC rips on OiNK.

Was planning on buying a bunch of albums to support both Steve and the artists (not like The Beach Boys need any more money, but whatever), but fuck the RIAA, I'll be pirating the rest of his stuff that I'm interested in.

Damn, I really liked OiNK! It's a real shame it's gone. :(

Sorry but ...

... they just looked for it. =/

I find the idea of GFF members calling another forum "elitist" somewhat amusing.

I just started using it the other day. It was a prime source for high quality classical/orchestral music. What I liked about it was that it listed the rip quality in the torrent name, so you knew what you were getting before you got it.

First Demonoid and now Oink. Are there any other good private trackers for music?

Demonoid is still up.

Not for Canadians.

I never really cared much for OiNK, to be honest. I asked for an invite there a few months ago since I wanted to check it out, but I felt their sharing rules were so extremely strict that I just gave up on it (nothing lower than 192kbps or YOU GET BANNED, no transcodes or YOU GET BANNED lol (how the hell do you determine whether something is a transcode anyway?)). I can understand why they had these strict rules in place, but considering the fact that I had other means to get music at the time, as well as today (read: Soulseek), I didn't bother with OiNK.

I guess now I don't have to feel bad that I wasted an invite anymore.

I'm definitely going to miss Oink. Aside from good quality music, which I only partially partook of, they had a vast selection of neatly-ripped programs. There was always something to satisfy my eclectic compulsions.
I'm sure some of my school friends will miss it too, since this was my source for any obscure program they were looking for.

For someone looking for an equivalent music tracker, I hear Pedro's BTmusic Tracker is good, although its a bitch to get in.

Bizarre, I'm still not getting access. Are you absolutely sure you're not on a proxy?

Think maybe one of them got burned by an Oink member?

Dang, I had something like an 800% share ratio on there. I only downloaded a few gigs worth of stuff and for a long time I was the only seeder for a video, so my share went through the roof. I had only been using Oink when I couldn't find something elsewhere since I didn't want to kill my ratio, but it looks like it's all for naught now. :(

Well, if I downloaded a whole lot or donated a good chunk of money to these people I'd be a tad bit worried.

Don't Snitch! RULE OF DA STREETS

Ah, you saw that ep of Boondocks too...

Actually it's always been the rule of the streets, mothafucka. Don't come round here actin like you all some big fucking HOUSE NIGGA watchin whitey's television.

I liked house when it was callled Black Jack.