OiNK bust on video
p2pnet news | Music:- “Strike, strtike, strike, going in,” says a tense, disembodied voice over a police radio in Britain.
Must be something serious.
And just before that, “The tactics were the same, but this time the target was very different.”
That’s from a reporter who, by an amazing coincidence, happened to find out about the Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG initiated raid on a 24-year-old man in England just in time to be included.
The man is accused of facilitating the non-existent crime of online file sharing on OiNK and, “The aim was to catch the man while he was logged on to the site,” the reporter continues in a video shot from inside a police car nearing the home of the ’suspect’.
But he’s not alone.
As the videoman follows the police into the man’s house, you see camera flashes popping off.
Next up is local cop enjoying his 15 minutes of fame as the Big 4 milk the situation they created bone dry.
“The police say it is no longer a victimless crime,” the reporter continues, “but they admit few feel sympathy for the multi-billion-dollar record companies being deprived of their profits.”
By another amazing coincidence, the video of the bust turned up on YouTube, as a p2pnet reader pointed out.
British taxpayers will no doubt be delighted to see their hard earned money is being well spent – by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
Also See:
non-existent crime – OiNK busted, October 23, 2007
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October 23rd, 2007 at 1:28 pm
fking mind-boggling
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
And you can expect more like this. The lamescream media are picking it up like its real.
Cheers!
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
what? “revenues are down by a third since illegal downloading started”? i don’t know what part of their rectums these statistics are being pulled from, but it must be a very fanciful place indeed. Best of luck to the admin of oink, and i hope like pirate bay, it rises from the ashes to begin anew.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
at least get the fact straight–there was no “paying” involved to enter the site. just optional donations.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I wonder what the people saying that private torrent sites were so “safe” …..have to say NOW?
It was already revealed that oink was infiltrated by the media defender emails.
That SHOULD have set off alarm bells at oink…but I guess he thought his site was invincible….guess he found out wrong.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:33 am
You people are so nieve , the world doesnt work for free , its none of anyones concern if the “Big4″ make a squillion pounds – dont buy their merchandise if you feel offended , bunch of sofa chair anarchists .
October 24th, 2007 at 5:08 am
You people are so nieve , the world doesnt work for free , its none of anyones concern if the “Big4″ make a squillion pounds – dont buy their merchandise if you feel offended , bunch of sofa chair anarchists .
I would rather be naive than an IDIOT like YOU!
October 24th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I guess they ran out of terrorists to look for in the UK. I know a lot of bands that used Oink as a way to help get their music out. I also know of a few people that worked at music labels that had over 100GB uploaded and downloaded.
Oink had music on there that you could not find anywhere else. I used it for hard to find indie bands where sometimes the only way to get there cd was to go to a show and the chances Id be able to go to one is like 0%.
Prerelease cds are uploaded everywhere else not just Oink. That video pisses me off because of all the false statements. You dont have to pay to join and no music was ever uploaded to teh site. Funny how they raided the place in Amsterdam to get the servers. I guess pot and prostitution are legal but heaven forbid you host .torrent files on a server.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:05 am
alot of false imformation, a reporter ‘on the scene’ to work up the record industry hippobloated hysteria spreading multibillion loss off downloading.. the masses will rise up and swallow them, eventually.. it’s called evolution – stay tuned to it, or tune out..
October 24th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Each time these parasites do something obnoxious and immoral it help me spread the boycott wider because most people agree that they suck given the imforation and most once inform joint the boycott.
Thank you to the Vivendique/Universale, Sony/BMG, Time Warner for helping us puting yourself out of business!
October 24th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Since when there is a subscription to use OINK? since when there is infringing file on the OINK server?
What a pack of liers!
When even the police is lying this bad, When they let theselves beeing corrupted by an hand full of corporations operated by parasites it is time to throw out our entire governement and shout every one in the said corporations!
October 24th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Ya I havent used oink in months and am currently in a country with no copyright laws. Good luck SOB’s
October 24th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
The real question will be if Oink had enough knowledge not to have some private stuff on the server. Linking through hyperlinks, even for torrents has not been proven to be illegal. But if they can find something like downloaded material on the server, on the computers he used at work, or on his home computer, then that is what they will hang him with, along with the claim of taking money for the site.
Now you and I know that it was donations. They’ve been doing their dangest to show a profit motive, going as far as suggesting that carrying ads it the equivalent of making tons of money. We both know that ads don’t make tons of money for most sites unless they have one heck of a traffic flow. Nor do I think donations are a “for profit” motive as I would imagine Oink was like most sites and never asked for donations. They will accept them from members nice enough to contribute but it is usually the standard to never ask or demand.
Then there is the question of if the labels themselves were involved with seeing some of that music traffic got to the members for a marketing test. This same sort of passing of data to make sure it is one the site is what happened with The Pirate Bay and I have no doubt that they would be quite willing to do it again to ensure the raid didn’t come up empty handed. It would have really looked bad if there were no computers at that home and with the press “miraculously on hand” during the bust, you can be sure they would want to make certain that some sort of material was there to be found.
I long ago quit buying from these idiots that think the sole reason for music to exist is to fund the vampire. I would imagine there will be more joining that cause with this “bust”. Even if piracy ceases to be an event to be concerned about, it will not alter my spending habits. I intend that the labels will know my disapproval on their bottom line. You should do the same.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Are there even ads at Oink? For the life of me I dont know if Ive ever seen one.
Its funny, i once saw a comment on one of the torrents of a band from the owner of the label the band was on. It was a small time indie band and label with only a half dozen to a dozen bands on it. And the owner himself had over 160gb downloaded and the ratio was over 1.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
one word….napster… anyone remember that one? this bust certainly has not slowed my music acquisitions. my azureus program is still cranking right along. i will always buy music, trade music and see live shows. it’s that simple. and for the “billions” of dollars the record execs say they are losing? my response is ha-ha-ha. kind of a karmic bitch slap for every great album that has been shelved and unheard because recording companies could not make their million dollar quota. once again ha-ha-ha. try and stop me coppers.ha-ha-ha!