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.
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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.
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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.
How ya doing, buddy?
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