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Revision as of 21:45, 23 October 2007 by 69.158.59.90 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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. It was mainly oriented around sharing full music albums in high-bitrate and FLAC, but also tracking other files such as e-books.
According to the International Federation of Pirate Interests, 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.
It has been wrongly reported however that OiNK.cd was a pay site, where members would have to purchase "downloading rights".
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
- Huge pirate music site shut down from BBC News Online
- News item on website shutdown from YouTube
- Illegal music sharing website closed down from Telegraph
- Music piracy Web site closed after UK, Dutch raids from Reuters
- British, Dutch police close file-sharing Web site, arrest 1 from the International Herald Tribune
- OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested from TorrentFreak
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