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OiNK Taken Down by Interpol, Investigation Into Users Continues

Servers in Amsterdam were raided, and the 24yo site admin was arrested in the UK.

It's a sad day in the BitTorrent community for the OiNK, everybody's favorite place to get music, has been shut down.

British police arrested a 24yo man in Middleborough on suspicion of being the site admin, while Dutch police simultaneously raided the sites Amsterdam-based servers. The raids, which were coordinated by Interpol, follow a two-year investigation by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said: “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.

The only lingering issue that remains is the ominours warnign on the site's HP that reads "A criminal investigation continues into the identities and users" of the site. Now the fact that OiNK had 180,000+ members means that it will be a little tough to go after everybody if they do at all. We've heard it before with LokiTorrent and EliteTorrents, after both of which nothing happened.

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This all stems from the head of Interpol being banned for a poor share ratio.

There are reports of him shouting "DIE RATIO NAZIS!!!" from the frontlines.

[Senior]

oh well, now they rename it and away we go! it's the same thing as when supernova was shut down, there will be 10 copy cat sites within a week. in fact I'm going to go check my email for an invite right now...