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.

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.

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!

Thank you to the Vivendique/Universale, Sony/BMG, Time Warner for helping us puting yourself out of business!

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.

I would rather be naive than an IDIOT like YOU!

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.

Cheers!