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Don McLean would have you believe that the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and Jiles Richardson was the day the music died. But for the legions of modern-day music fans reared on the narcotic of not having to pay for their tunes, the date is one much nearer and dearer to their heart: October 23, 2007, the day OiNK was busted.
OiNK was famous for having one of the most comprehensive networks of music sharing on the Internet. If it had already been released at any point in the last 50 years, or if it was going to be released in the next few months, odds were that OiNK had it. The users were notoriously snobby about the quality of the music they shared too: nothing less than a high-quality rip of an album was allowed to be put onto their tracker.
Of course, all of this was very, very illegal. The site operated under the gray area that they were merely providing a place on the Internet for people to convene, while it was the users who distributed the music (at their own risk) through the filesharing technology Bittorrent. Still, for as many RIAA execs that were eager to sink their incisors into OiNKs carcass, there were just as many vocal proponents.
British police recently confirmed the arrest of six OiNK users from information procured in last year's sting, the ominously titled 'Operation Ark Royal'. The users are being charged with 'conspiracy to defraud the music industry' for distributing unreleased albums through the P2P network before they were to be released. Five men, ages 19-33, and one 28-year-old woman, were taken into custody for questioning.
The seizure of OiNK's site logs means that this might be the first of many arrests made against users of the site.
Related links:
OiNK.cd
News: Torrent site OiNK sent to the slaughter, one arrested
News: Squeals of OiNK lovers reverberate across the internet
Got news tips for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.
Of course, all of this was very, very illegal. The site operated under the gray area that they were merely providing a place on the Internet for people to convene, while it was the users who distributed the music (at their own risk) through the filesharing technology Bittorrent. Still, for as many RIAA execs that were eager to sink their incisors into OiNKs carcass, there were just as many vocal proponents.
British police recently confirmed the arrest of six OiNK users from information procured in last year's sting, the ominously titled 'Operation Ark Royal'. The users are being charged with 'conspiracy to defraud the music industry' for distributing unreleased albums through the P2P network before they were to be released. Five men, ages 19-33, and one 28-year-old woman, were taken into custody for questioning.
The seizure of OiNK's site logs means that this might be the first of many arrests made against users of the site.
Related links:
OiNK.cd
News: Torrent site OiNK sent to the slaughter, one arrested
News: Squeals of OiNK lovers reverberate across the internet
Got news tips for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.
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