Oink closed down after two year investigation

posted by roberta — Oct 23rd, 2007

Illegal file sharing and music download website, Oink, was shut down by Dutch and British officials recently:

Around 180,000 people were members of http://www.oink.cd, the world’s biggest source of pirated pre-release chart albums, which leaked more than 60 major albums onto the internet so far this year, according to police.
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Users, who were only admitted to the private website if they could prove they had music to offer, retained membership by continuously posting tracks.

That’s a heck of a lot of theft going around. I guess they must be concerned that much more about people getting the pre-releases and doing mashups.

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