OiNK, BoINK, what.cd and waffles.fm
p2pnet news | Freedom:- The deeply flawed anti-OiNK campaign launched by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s IFPI, looked good in the lamescream media. But when you get down to brass tacks, the only good it did was to spur P2P supporters on to greater feats of innovation.
The (International Federation of Phartographic Industry) wasted two years of tax-payer money and scarce police resources to bring down Alan Ellis’ OiNK, website which allowed users to search for music.
The likelihood of the Big 4’s IFPI being able to turn it into a successful anti-P2P, anti-consumer, anti-file sharing court case ranks about as high as the IFPI’s credibility.
But it played well on TV and in the newspapers. And that’s principally what it was meant to do.
Waffleswaffleswaffles and jam!
Meanwhile, OinK.cd now proudly displays an ad for waffles with the caption, “These are the waffles that taste really good according to google.”
Follow the link and you end up on The Pirate Bay guy Brokep’s blog, where you find a long list of sites to use instead of OiNK, or, ‘what to use instead of pink,’ at the foot of which is:
“Waffleswaffleswaffles and jam! Wondering about all the waffle talk? So do we. But piracy is waffles of the 21st century.”
What of BOiNK, mooted by TPB?
“Boink blows” p2pnet was told recently.
Meanwhile, what.cd and waffles.fm are poised to fill the vacuum left by OiNK.
“What.cd (currently offline at time of publication) was founded the day of the OiNK takedown,” says Torrentfreak, quoting What’s co-founder as saying, “We plan to grow into a large tracker – probably not as large as oink, and not as open, but eventually, I would like to support at least a hundred thousand users.”
Waffles.fm is, however, already online, saying:
Our goal is to become a great private music sharing community. If you have suggestions, do not hesitate to contact us!
This is a private tracker, and you have to register before you can get full access to the site. Before you do anything here at Waffles.fm we suggest you read the rules! There are only a few rules to abide by, but we do enforce them!
And on the intro page:
The sale of invites to this site (www.waffles.fm) is strictly forbidden and results in both the inviter and invitee losing their accounts.
Membership is free, users do not pay to have access to this site (www.waffles.fm). We do not make any profit from this website (www.waffles.fm).
We do not force our members to donate.
None of the files shown here are actually hosted on this server. The links are provided solely by this site’s users. The administrator of this site (www.waffles.fm) cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users. You may not use this site to distribute or download any material when you do not have the legal rights to do so. It is your own responsibility to adhere to these terms.
Never forget. 10/23/07
The Big 4 certainly won’t 
Definitely stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
Also See:
anti-OiNK campaign – OiNK saga moves to Norway, October 25, 2007
Torrentfreak – What Waffles? The Hydra Lives On, October 30, 2007
BOiNK – Bye, OiNK — Hi, BoINK!, October 26, 2007
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October 31st, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Waffles.fm is currently down. The site picture says they’re “getting DDoSed right now” and that “[y]ou’ll be enjoying your waffles shortly, don’t worry”.
November 7th, 2007 at 5:12 am
email me at sculay@gmail.com for what.cd invites i have 50 invites to hand out so email ASAP
November 9th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Been to both websites and What.cd is far better put together with friendlier staff/members. I don’t know the total statistics on the trackers but I was able to find way more music that I liked in more formats on what.cd than waffles.fm . I’ll still support waffles.fm because the OiNK tragedy taught me the importance of branching out.
December 5th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I never got a chance to used OiNK but heard great things. Recently demonoid went down and now I’m looking to get onto waffles.fm. If someone would like to invite me I would really appreciate it.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I am also looking to get on to waffels, I am a huge house, electronic fan and it is so hard to find torrents for the best guys on all the normal torrent sites, so if anyone can help me It would be greatly appreciated.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
i dont have anymore invites
May 17th, 2008 at 4:16 am
I’m also into obscure musics which the usual suspects don’t have, if anyone can hook me up with an invite to either what.cd or waffles it would be much appreciated.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am
hi if anyone could send me a what.cd invite it would be greatly appreciated. doviak666@yahoo.com
June 20th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
i would love to be able to use what.cd or waffles….
Would someone please help me out with an invite?????!!!!
Alot of the torrents i want pop up as what or waffles…
Help would be greatly appreciated…
adracull@hotmail.com
CHEERS!!!!!
June 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
What.cd just has way too much amazing indie music that you can’t get elsewhere… if I could get an invite I would be incredibly appreciative, and could also offer a demonoid invite in return.
spectrerbf@aol.com
Thanks so much!
June 26th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I would really love an invite to what.cd, all the music I want is on there. Please help a single dad get some new music. I’ll help you out however I can.
lemmapie@yahoo.com
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
i really wnat a invitation to what.cd,i hava a account in dimedozen
i can send my loggin and password,the tracker not send invitations
my email gabriel_net01@hotmail.com
thanks a lot
July 17th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hello everyone,
I too want an invite, I’ve tried everything I can, but clearly it has got me nowhere. Can someone please invite me! I’d really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Sasha
(kraze56@hotmail.com)
July 30th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Hey, I was on oink with a 1.3 sharing ratio for about 6 months, I’ve just gotten around to looking for a new site and what.cd seems to fit the best… anyone got an invite left? littlebitstrouds@hotmail.com if you do, thanks.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 am
Hi, I’ll love to have an invitation to join what.cd or Waffles.fm. I will appreciated the invitation.
Please give me an invitaion to the email kevotinh911@yahoo.com
August 5th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I’ll trade a Demonoid invite for a what.cd or waffles.fm invite. I need to get to the indie music!!
ihghost@yahoo.com
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:44 am
Hi, will be glad to trade a demonoid invite for a waffles invite. Please email me at alan.tisdall@telus.net
Thanks!
September 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I will trade a Demonoid invite for a waffles invite. Anyone interested email me at dsutlar@hotmail.com
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Use this invite code generator here. It works quite well. I just tried it. http://tinyurl.com/crtoha
August 15th, 2009 at 2:36 am
If anyone wants a demonoid invite code, go to the following link asap: http://www.invitecodedepot.com
August 15th, 2009 at 2:37 am
If anyone wants waffles.fm invite, go to the following link asap: http://www.invitecodedepot.com