Oink's Pink Palace: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively ← Previous edit Next edit →Content deleted Content addedVisual WikitextInline

Revision as of 00:05, 24 October 2007 edit68.166.20.123 (talk)No edit summary← Previous edit		Revision as of 00:10, 24 October 2007 edit undo69.158.64.150 (talk)No edit summaryNext edit →
Line 4:		Line 4:
	The site was an invite-only BitTorrent community, with a membership of around 180,000 members at the time of closure. Only around 80,000 were regularly active. It was mainly oriented around sharing full music albums in high-bitrate and ], but also tracking other files such as ]s. In contrast to the opinion of the police, the site's main purpose was not to release albums before they were commercially released. The albums that were leaked early only accounted for a very small percentage of the vinyl, lossless and hard to find rips of rare music.		The site was an invite-only BitTorrent community, with a membership of around 180,000 members at the time of closure. Only around 80,000 were regularly active. It was mainly oriented around sharing full music albums in high-bitrate and ], but also tracking other files such as ]s. In contrast to the opinion of the police, the site's main purpose was not to release albums before they were commercially released. The albums that were leaked early only accounted for a very small percentage of the vinyl, lossless and hard to find rips of rare music.

	According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, OiNK was the largest source of leaked albums in the world, claiming that it was responsible for leaking more than 60 major album releases in 2007 alone. However, OiNK was not the source of these leaks, the leaks stemmed from hte private FTP servers of "the scene", which then leaked copies to other torrent sites. Due to OiNK's popularity, releases were often posted there hours before other private and public torrent sites. <ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html \| title = British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site \| publisher = ] \| accessdate = 2007-10-23}}</ref>		According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, OiNK was the largest source of leaked albums in the world, claiming that it was responsible for leaking more than 60 major album releases in 2007 alone.<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html \| title = British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site \| publisher = ] \| accessdate = 2007-10-23}}</ref> However, OiNK was not the source of these leaks, the leaks stemmed from hte private FTP servers of "the scene", which then leaked copies to other torrent sites. Due to OiNK's popularity, releases were often posted there hours before other private and public torrent sites.

	Although open to donations to cover costs for the servers, it has been wrongly reported however that OiNK.cd was a pay site, where members would have to purchase "downloading rights." Also, members did not have to pay to keep their membership, they could simply log on once every 6 weeks. It was also wrongly reported that the site required users to upload their own pirated content in order to remain on the site. Many users simply seeded new torrents that they downloaded in order to keep the variable required ratio (starting at .15).		Although open to donations to cover costs for the servers, it has been wrongly reported however that OiNK.cd was a pay site, where members would have to purchase "downloading rights." Also, members did not have to pay to keep their membership, they could simply log on once every 6 weeks. It was also wrongly reported that the site required users to upload their own pirated content in order to remain on the site. Many users simply seeded new torrents that they downloaded in order to keep the variable required ratio (starting at .15).

Revision as of 00:10, 24 October 2007

Oink's Pink Palace (OiNK) was a prominent BitTorrent tracker located at http://www.oink.cd, previously http://oink.me.uk. On October 23, 2007 it was shut down by IFPI, BPI, and other organizations.

The site was an invite-only BitTorrent community, with a membership of around 180,000 members at the time of closure. Only around 80,000 were regularly active. It was mainly oriented around sharing full music albums in high-bitrate and FLAC, but also tracking other files such as e-books. In contrast to the opinion of the police, the site's main purpose was not to release albums before they were commercially released. The albums that were leaked early only accounted for a very small percentage of the vinyl, lossless and hard to find rips of rare music.

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, OiNK was the largest source of leaked albums in the world, claiming that it was responsible for leaking more than 60 major album releases in 2007 alone. However, OiNK was not the source of these leaks, the leaks stemmed from hte private FTP servers of "the scene", which then leaked copies to other torrent sites. Due to OiNK's popularity, releases were often posted there hours before other private and public torrent sites.

Although open to donations to cover costs for the servers, it has been wrongly reported however that OiNK.cd was a pay site, where members would have to purchase "downloading rights." Also, members did not have to pay to keep their membership, they could simply log on once every 6 weeks. It was also wrongly reported that the site required users to upload their own pirated content in order to remain on the site. Many users simply seeded new torrents that they downloaded in order to keep the variable required ratio (starting at .15).

References

"Illegal music sharing website closed down". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
"British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site". IFPI. Retrieved 2007-10-23.

External links

This article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: