Tag: OiNK
OiNK: The Aftermath
by VMax on Nov.04, 2007, under The Internets
I suppose that most of you will know OiNK (temporary site) and that it’s shut down. The British and Dutch police took the site down on the 23th of October. Most of the news articles that are on line at different newspapers are filled with lies.
The admin of OiNK, Allen, is currently released from custody and fine. He lost his job over this and he is seeking a new one.
“Since this whole thing has cost me my employment, I’m currently job-seeking.
If you think my PHP/MySQL/memcached/general optimisation expertise or programming skills can help your business, drop me an email: alan.ellis.jobhunting@googlemail.com.
Paine, who used to be a moderator at OiNK created a blog to quiet down the raging OiNK users.
His blog was the one reliably source with news about OiNK.
The message that was visible on the OiNK site just after it went down came from IFPI. The message stated that:
“A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users.”
It’s clear by now that this will not be the case. OiNK had taken security measures just weeks before the raid and there isn’t enough incriminating material on the server to take any users down.
So what now?
Two major sites launched after the OiNK raid. What.cd and Waffles.fm. (Both are rather slow at this moment, they are upgrading their servers to handle the new users) Personally I think that What.cd has the biggest chance of becoming the new ‘biggest’ music tracker, it currently hosts the most torrents and has the most users.
The true loss of OiNK is it huge music archive. The tracker had around 180 000 users and the world’s largest music collection. Trent Reznor, the frontman of the rather famous group Nine Inch Nales recently said in an interview that he also was a member of OiNK. His interview makes it clear that OiNK wasn’t just about ‘illegal stuff’, it was a big community of music loving people.
I don’t think the raid of OiNK will help stop illegal downloads, these new sites that popped up will be successful in replacing OiNK, it might take some time, but they will get there!
I’ll be back soon with another review or something..
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