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{{Infobox Website |
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| name = Oink's Pink Palace (OiNK) |
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| logo = [[Image:OiNK 2.png|200px]] |
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| screenshot = [[Image:OiNK.cd frontpage screenshot - 10.18.2007.png|200px]] |
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| caption = OiNK.cd frontpage (logged in) on October 18, 2007 |
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| url = http://oink.cd/ |
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| type = [[Torrent Tracker#Private_Trackers|Private Torrent Tracker]] |
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| registration = Free, Invitation Only |
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| owner = Alan Ellis (aka OiNK) |
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| author = OiNK (Modified [[TBSource]]) |
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| launch date = May 30, 2004<ref>Oink.me.uk, May 30, 2006, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060613042533/http://oink.me.uk/ Happy birthday to us]</ref> |
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| current status = Tracker forcibly shut down |
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| revenue = Optional donations |
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}} |
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'''OiNK's Pink Palace''' (frequently written as '''OiNK''') was a prominent [[BitTorrent tracker]] located at [http://oink.cd/ Oink.cd] (previously [http://oink.me.uk/ Oink.me.uk]), which operated from May 30, 2004 until October 23, 2007, when it was shut down by police. Copyright agencies described Oink as an online pirate pre-release music club; former users described it as one of the world's largest and most meticulously maintained online music repositories<ref name=wired>{{cite web | url = http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink | title = Oink Users Recall Defunct Song-Swap Site's Strange, Stringent Rules | publisher = [[Wired]] | accessdate = 2007-10-27}}</ref>. About a month before the shut-down, music magazine [[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] selected OiNK's creator, the British Alan Ellis, to their ''The Powergeek 25 — the Most Influential People in Online Music'' list.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2752 | title = |
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The Powergeek 25 — the Most Influential People in Online Music | publisher = [[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] | accessdate = 2007-10-28}}</ref> |
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The site was an [[invitation system|invitation-only]] [[BitTorrent]] community, with a membership of around 180,000<ref name="ifpi" /> members at the time of closure; though only around 80,000 were regularly active.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} The site's rules included a strict policy that users could not pay for membership, required minimum upload/download ratios, and a requirement that all [[Avatar (icon)|avatars]] had to be [[cute]]. <ref name=wired /> Its userbase included music professionals, such as [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]].<ref>{{cite web | url= http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_williams.html | title = Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK | publisher = [[New York (magazine)|New York]] | accessdate = 2007-10-31}}</ref> |
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Content of the site was mainly oriented around sharing music albums in strictly quality controlled [[MP3]] and [[FLAC]] formats (along with most other formats such as [[Ogg|OGG]] and [[M4A]]) with good [[meta data]], but also offered other files such as [[e-book]]s, software and e-learning videos.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://web.archive.org/web/*/oink.me.uk/rules.php | title = Oink.me.uk / Uploading rules | publisher = Oink's Pink Palace / [[Internet Archive]] | accessdate = 2007-10-26}}</ref> |
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On [[2007-06-20]], [[TechCrunch|CrunchGear]] reported that [[Apple]]'s [[Worldwide Developers Conference|WWDC]] [[Mac OS X v10.5|Leopard Beta]] had been leaked onto OiNK. <ref>{{cite web | url = http://crunchgear.com/2007/06/20/wwdc-leopard-beta-leaked-onto-bittorrent-site | title = WWDC Leopard Beta Leaked Onto BitTorrent Site | publisher = [[TechCrunch|CrunchGear]] | accessdate = 2007-10-28}}</ref>--> |
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==Shutdown and media response== |
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[[Image:Oinkclosure.jpg|thumb|left|Oink's main page immediately after closure.]] |
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On [[October 23]], [[2007]] the site was shut down by [[Interpol]], [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry]] (IFPI), [[British Phonographic Industry]] (BPI), and other organizations in an investigation codenamed ''Operation Ark Royal''. |
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<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/24/piracy.crime | title = Police shut down website after two-year music piracy inquiry | publisher = [[Guardian]] | accessdate = 2007-10-25}}</ref> As a part of the shut down British police arrested Oink's creator Alan Ellis, and in Amsterdam dutch police confiscated Oink's hosting service company NForce's servers. |
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Jeremy Banks, head of the IFPI's Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, has stated that Oink was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music, leaking more than 60 major album releases in 2007 alone.<ref name="ifpi" >{{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 = [[IFPI]] | accessdate = 2007-10-23}}</ref> The shutdown was covered in media worldwide mainly based on IFPI, BPI and Cleveland Police's press releases and original BBC news footage of the arrest of Oink creator Alan Ellis. |
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In the days following the arrest, when news sources like [[Wired]],<ref name=wired /> [[Guardian]],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/24/time_to_clear_up_the_murk_about_oink.html | title = Time to clear up the murk about OiNK | publisher = [[Guardian]] | accessdate = 2007-10-26}}</ref> and [[Slyck]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.slyck.com/story1608_Myths_and_Facts_of_OiNKs_Takedown | title = Myths and Facts of OiNK's Takedown | publisher = [[Slyck]] | accessdate = 2007-10-26}}</ref> started fact checking based on internet sources<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rlslog.net/rip-oink/ | title = Rip-oink! - Comment of how BBC should be neutral and first detailed writing about errors in mainstream media | publisher = [[Releaselog]] | accessdate = 2007-10-24}}</ref>, it was revealed that not everything reported in the mainstream media was entirely correct. Common errors quoted by media were: that Oink was an extremely lucrative website and made hundreds of thousands of pounds <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cleveland.police.uk/news_resources/press_releases/071023_OperationArkRoyal.htm| title = Operation Ark Royal | publisher = [[Cleveland Police]] | accessdate = 2007-10-26}}</ref> from "donations", which users had to pay to be able to download; that users had to offer new content to the site in order to get invitations;<ref>{{cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/tees/7057812.stm | title = Huge pirate music site shut down (version of 23.10.2007, 10:57 GMT) | publisher = [[BBC]] | accessdate = 2007-10-27}}</ref> and that the site was centered around the release of prereleased material.<ref name="ifpi" /> The first two claims clearly conflicted with site's written rules and conventions. A counter argument for the third was that only tiny portion of site's content were pre-released material. [[TechCrunch]] wrote that while links to pre-release albums definitely appeared on OiNK early it was unlikely that the site's members were actually responsible for these releases and claim this shows how poorly [[the scene]] is understood.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/24/copyright-news-oink-and-tv-links-down-demonoid-back-up/| title = Copyright News: Oink and Tv-Links Down, Demonoid Back Up | publisher = [[TechCrunch]] | accessdate = 2007-10-29}}</ref> |
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On [[October 27]], [[2007]], the homepages of both the oink.cd and oink.me.uk domains were replaced with an image of syrup and waffles, and a link to a [[Google]] search for [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22what+to+use+instead+of+oink%22 "What to use instead of OiNK"] which brings up a blog post by BrokeP of [[The Pirate Bay]]. |
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==Pirate Parties' response== |
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[[Image:The OiNK Top 10.jpg|thumb|OiNK's ''top 10 most active torrents'' music at 6 April 2007, from [[Idolator]]]] |
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Soon after the site's closure, the British and Dutch Pirate Parties issued a joint statement<ref name="pparty">{{cite web | url = http://piratepartyuk.org/press_releases/UK-NL_statement_oink.pdf | title = Dutch and British Parties Question Legality and Ethics of Oink Take-Down | publisher = Pirate Party of the United Kingdom (UK) | accessdate = 2007-10-25}}</ref> condemning the actions as retaliatory, questioning the ethics of choreographing it and letting representatives of the alleged victims participate in the investigation. |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://oink.cd oink.cd] |
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http%3A//oink.me.uk/ Oink.me.uk] in Internet Archive (archives dated between 26.7.2004 - 6.4.2007) |
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*[http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/ tehpaine.blogspot.com] - Oink aftermath blog by somebody claims to be OiNK staff member Paine. |
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'''Press releases''' |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://www.cleveland.police.uk/news_resources/press_releases/071023_OperationArkRoyal.htm Cleveland Police: Operation Ark Royal] |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://www.bpi.co.uk/index.asp?Page=news/press/news_content_file_1104.shtml The BPI: British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site] |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20071023.html IFPI: British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site] |
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'''News coverage''' |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7057812.stm Huge pirate music site shut down] from [[BBC News Online]] |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag News item on the shutdown from BBC News] from [[YouTube]] |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nc8myW_F58 Campus.tv interview of Pieter Task of NForce, hosting provider of oink.cd] |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-police-ifpi-make-bacon-of-oink-bittorrent-tracker.html Police, IFPI make bacon of OiNK BitTorrent tracker] from [[Ars Technica]] |
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* 24.10.2007 [http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5575/news/music/squeals_of_oink_lovers_reverberate_across_the_internet Squeals of OiNK lovers reverberate across the Internet] from [[Paste (magazine)|Paste magazine]] |
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* 25.10.2007 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/ninternet125.xml An interview with the site's founder] from [[The Daily Telegraph|Telegraph]]. |
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'''Internet commentary''' |
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* 23.10.2007 [http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/defending-the-pig-oink-croaks/ Mudd up! Defending the pig - Oink croaks] — Writer & musician [[DJ /rupture|Jace Clayton]] explains what Oink was |
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* 24.10.2007 [http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide] — Commentary on Oink in relation to the music industry from an insider |
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* 27.10.2007 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av5HDyLL_VY Stationary Hund - The OiNK Song] from Youtube |
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{{BitTorrent}} |
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[[Category:BitTorrent websites]] |
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[[Category:Defunct websites]] |
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[[fi:OiNK]] |