OiNK, the extremely popular private torrent tracker has been shut down and its owner?s home raided by both UK and Dutch police.
According to investigators, OiNK was the source of pre-release music which then spread to P2P networks as well as other torrent sites and blogs.
The tracker however, was private and membership required an invitation so it is safe to say the operators of the ... [ read the full article ]
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They may well have a problem prosecuting, as if you look at the lists of people uploading these pre release tracks, they are often the artist themselves. Tiesto, The Hoxtons, DJ Rich T and a host of other famous DJ's were all seeding tracks, which they have the copywrite to onot the actual record companies.
I am by no means a lawyer, but dont the authorities actually need to have received/given data to prosecute users? An ip and a list of things downloaded seems extremely circumstantial, just seems rational that unless somebody associated with one of these agencies actually either sent or received some 0 and 1's there is no legitimate case. Now the admin of the site, that is a different case all together.
Any lawyers out there that can further expand on that?
Originally posted by morguex: Pardon?
If I have to explain it, well I'm not gonna bother, Read the article again. Because the article I read in the newspaper, stated that this guy was putting albums online the weren't even released yet to the public yet, Sorry but I call that theft.
You obviously know very little about OiNK and believe everything that has been "span" out of the presses about this bust.
Mr OiNK (Alan) ran a site no different to google (in effect) None of the files were located ANYWHERE on the OiNK servers and all copyrighted material is stored on end user's machines. As stated by Alan himselfhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...internet125.xml it isn't upto him to police how people use his site, the responsibilty for downloading or uploading material rests with us, the end users.
OK fair enough, But last time I checked google wasn't getting raided by the police and getting shut down and the owners getting arrested.
You could just as easily use Google to find just as much illegal activity as you could with OiNK. Everyone in the .torrent world needs to know is that the 1st rule of 'fight club' is to not talk about 'fight club'.
Originally posted by dondmon96: You could just as easily use Google to find just as much illegal activity as you could with OiNK. Everyone in the .torrent world needs to know is that the 1st rule of 'fight club' is to not talk about 'fight club'.
To late for that now I am afraid. Filesharing has become part of the public domain now. :-(
Curious it is i am, he said Welshly. There are some respondents who have a smell of fish about them and then there are others who makes on wonder why they they even bother writing if they so strongly disapprove of the action.
i mean to say, whateffer, why would i be reading a column about file sharing AND writing a comment if i didn't approve?
