Oink shut down by the IFPI

[anephric]

You must have different taste in music than I do, matey. No bugger touched my seeds.

[djjimbob]

We need more Oink nostalgia!

Does anyone remember the song given away on pink flexi-vinyl?

"It goes poom-poom tickle-tickle pop-pop oink,
and things don't feel so bad."

[Dogg Thang]

Real issue exposed. Anephric listens to cack.

[anephric]

anephric listens to dodgy Wax Trax-era bands like Mussolini Dropkick that no other fecker likes, apparently.

[angelx]

Well someone must have done to seed it to you, youre not alone! well, now you are.

[HaHaUK]

The good boys over at PirateBay are bringing back Oink, but this time as a public site, and naming it Boink

When will the IFPI learn that sharing is caring?

[charlesr]

"British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music."

"British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" signpost site to music available to grab from random people's PCs." - fixed. Although I'd prefer people actually pay for their music, I hate it when the media insinuates that these sites actually have the content on them ready for download.

[Jebus]

They also (I believe) insinuated that it was a pay site, which it wasn't.

You COULD donate, but you didn't have to.

Same as this site in that respect, you CAN donate, but you don't have to!

NTSC is a pay site

[Roddie]

The good boys over at PirateBay are bringing back Oink, but this time as a public site, and naming it Boink

When will the IFPI learn that sharing is caring?

TPB are not bringing it back, none of the OiNK staffers are involved with BOiNK, it's basically just going to be a pink version of TPB, so it will be nothing like OiNK anyway. The reason OiNK worked was because not only was it a private tracker, but it was the strictest one, having yet another public tracker means it will just be flooded with duplicates of badly seeded transcodes.

[Fei Fong Wong]

There's some good commentary on this here and here, not just about OiNK but the state of the music industry in general also.

[SubparMario]

Yeah, so.. is anyone on Waffles?

[Roddie]

Both the wannabe OiNK replacements Waffles & What are down 99% of the time anyway; they're both currently a waste of time.

[SubparMario]

Harsh - problems getting things off the ground are hardly surprising. I'm glad someone is trying.

[Roddie]

Yeah it's nice to see someone trying, but with the flood of ex-OiNKers looking for somewhere to jump to, this was always destined to happen. Plus, if they spent less time bitching about each other and more time coding their sites, they might have less problems.

[anephric]

Demonoid got executed the other day too.