The servers of OiNK.cd - one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers - are raided and the admin, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, is arrested.

The British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations. The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.

According to early reports OiNk’s servers were confiscated in Amsterdam last week. This seems to be unlikely because the site was still fully functional 24 hours ago. The administrator of OiNK was arrested this morning by the Cleveland Police. The BBC reports that his employer and the home of his father were raided as well.

Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: “OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”

OiNK hosted hundreds and thousands of torrents with over a million peers which makes it more popular than most public trackers. The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it.

In July the tracker already changed its name from OiNK.me.uk to OiNK.cd due to “legal” issues with their domain registrar. Unfortunately it now seems that the popular private BitTorrent tracker is in bigger trouble.

http://torrentfreak.com/oinkcd-servers-raided-admin-arrested/

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1779471.0.police_swoop_to_close_down_i llegal_website.php

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-investigation-seeks-identities-and-activities-of-users-071023/

http://www.slyck.com/story1605_OiNK_Busted

propaganda:
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html

glad i never used this site
this is a warning to all you noobs who use limewire, kazaa, emule, demonoid, etc

Yay for limewire portable using my school's IP during Computer Applictaions!

i always wanted an Oink invitation

whats this to people who were members?

whats this to people who were members?

well it's hard to say
staff in eu/us countries might be f^cked:rolleyes:
uploaders also:(
reg users anyones guess is as good as mine

im in canada, so it really dosent matter to me..

the piracy laws here arent that strict at all..

*ARR MATEY!!!* :rolleyes:

im in canada, so it really dosent matter to me..

the piracy laws here arent that strict at all..

*ARR MATEY!!!* :rolleyes:
They're getting stricter unfortunately, Canadians aren't allowed on Demonoid (another hugely popular torrent site) anymore, the Demonoid people got a letter from the Canadian recording industry association :\


Ugh, it sucks about Oink. That place was AMAZING, they had every album, bootleg, b-side, Mac app and e-book one could ever dream of leeching.

They're getting stricter unfortunately, Canadians aren't allowed on Demonoid (another hugely popular torrent site) anymore, the Demonoid people got a letter from the Canadian recording industry association :\


Ugh, it sucks about Oink. That place was AMAZING, they had every album, bootleg, b-side, Mac app and e-book one could ever dream of leeching.

Which is ridiculously annoying because CRIA had no right to do so... Demonoid housed contents that doesn't regulate under CRIA, and Canadians have right to download media off the web for free anyways...

Oh well, proxy time...

Anyone who were members are supposedly safe, or at least according to this article.

....a source has stated that the OiNK membership list was not only encrypted, but also equipped with a ’self-destruct’ type mechanism which relied on a regular signal to continue in ‘OFF’ mode.

im in canada, so it really dosent matter to me..

the piracy laws here arent that strict at all..

*ARR MATEY!!!* :rolleyes:

IM moving to canada . lol

here's on update on status of admin
interview with a mod of OiNK.cd
Sit down, and shut the fuck up.

Right -- This stops now.

I'm Paine. I used to be a moderator at OiNK.cd, until, as you know, we were shut down by the BPI and IFPI.

Now, there are far, FAR too many rumours flying around, and I wanted to set some shit straight.

1. There is no official OiNK IRC right now.

EDIT: Defunct. See newest post.

2. OiNK will _NOT_ be up today, or tomorrow.

We're not magic. None of the moderators have access to the current code and databases right now -- in fact, neither does OiNK himself, as his stuff was confiscated (remember the crap you saw in the plastic bags on the news?). People purporting to be TMT and/or OiNK are, to be frank, lying their fucking asses off.

3. There is currently _NO_ "oink legal fund".

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT give ANY money to ANY of these fake funds you are seeing. They are scams. OiNK will not see a penny of this money, and neither will you.

4. OiNK himself is safe and well.

He's fine and out on bail.

5. There is no "official" OiNK forum right now.

While there may not be an official forum, a lot of our ex-users are flocking to http://www.ohax.com/phpBB2/ -- Some of the users on there are actually staff. However there are also people maliciously using that site to link to scam sites and other various filth.

Anyway, I hope that's settled a lot of shit. If you're in doubt I'm who I say I am, then don't believe me. I encourage you all to exercise extreme caution when people are floating around throwing names about left right and center saying these things. The "TMT" on Dalnet was not our TMT. In fact, nobody has been in contact with him, and I expect it will remain that way for a very long time.


Edit: A few people have asked me if we logged the IP you snatched things from. The answer is no, we did not log snatch IPs.


Edit 2: This is an important one -- Your passwords do NOT need to be changed, they were stored as salted MD5 hashes. All the authorities have is the hashes. The only way they can get the original passwords is via brute force. The chances of that are slim to none if you followed standard good password practice.

Great info, thanks a bunch.

Great info, thanks a bunch.
no problem though it has lots of profanity though i would be mad if i was a mod too:D

well, right now, there's nothing I can do about it, seeing as there's no set of rules lol.

well, right now, there's nothing I can do about it, seeing as there's no set of rules lol.

actually by mod i meant the mod of OiNK.cd and his rant:cool:

i never used that and am now done with ipod nova

grr.... got to wait till im in canada to get music!!