Oink Follows The Way Of Tv-links

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  1. Oct 23, 2007 at 12:26 PM #1
    .ZERO

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    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. 

'Extremely lucrative' 

The IT worker was led from his home in the town's Grange Road and is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law. 

At the same time his employer - a large multi-national company - and his father's home were also raided. 
     Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found 
IFPI spokesman

A Cleveland Police spokesman said: "This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up. Membership was by invitation only. 

"The site allowed the uploading and downloading of pre-release music and media to thousands of members." 

An IFPI spokesman said: "Once an album had been posted on the OiNK website, the users that download that music then passed the content to other websites, forums and blogs, where multiple copies were made. 

"Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found further down the illegal online supply chain." 

The site's servers, based in Amsterdam, were seized in a series of raids last week. 

It followed a two-year investigation by music industry bodies the IFPI and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
    seems likes theres a bit of a crackdown on these sites now,
    tbh, epic bugger... =/
     
  2. Oct 23, 2007 at 12:27 PM #2
    Hadouken

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    Good, that site was too stuck up anyway. :lol:
    hahah, I just looked on the front page and it's shut down.
     
  3. Oct 23, 2007 at 12:30 PM #3
    .ZERO

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    yeah I agree with you on that, join our exclusive treehouse sorta thing but with tv links nearly everyone i've told has been pissed about it :P
     
  4. Oct 23, 2007 at 1:30 PM #4
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    Tv-Links is the ----.
    Idk why people are pissed about it, free movies duh.
     
  5. Oct 23, 2007 at 1:35 PM #5
    Hadouken

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    He meant that TV links was shut down, and so was oink hence "Oink follows the way of tv-links"
     
  6. Oct 23, 2007 at 1:36 PM #6
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    RIP OiNK.

    with all your pink beauty. you will always be remembered in our hearts. :'(.
     
  7. Oct 23, 2007 at 1:42 PM #7
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    Yer duh, I can read.
     
  8. Oct 23, 2007 at 4:29 PM #8
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    Demonoid was also shut down.

    By canadians.
     
  9. Oct 23, 2007 at 4:37 PM #9
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    correction:

    demonoid was also shut down, for canadians.
     
  10. Oct 23, 2007 at 6:31 PM #10
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    Lots of people shutting down or blocking certain nations, now.
     
  11. Oct 23, 2007 at 6:57 PM #11
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    OiNK was awesome. And Demonoid was back within 2 weeks of it being shut down. OiNK sadly doesn't seem that it will be following the trend.
     
  12. Oct 23, 2007 at 8:02 PM #12
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    bugger !! I hope Demonoid dosnt go the same way anytime soon .
     
  13. Oct 23, 2007 at 8:44 PM #13
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    Noooo! They shut down tv links? thought i was just down for maintenance.
     
  14. Oct 23, 2007 at 10:57 PM #14
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    Yeah, too bad it already did.

    If oink ever comes back, someone send me an invite ;o
     
  15. Oct 23, 2007 at 11:02 PM #15
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    whadda mean?

    demonoid is down completely? I know its down for Canada
     
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