Oink is shut down

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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Pegasus wrote:
    talk about going after your best customers! :rolleyes:
    people using this site were the people that actually BUY music!
    idiots.


    I don't use oink. too hard to get and keep an account. I have friends who have it though and the copies of albums i received from them i went out and got the day they came out unless i did nto like them and at that point it is not like i'm still listening to them i delete them from my ipod etc.
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  • muppet
    muppet Posts: 980
    Pegasus wrote:
    talk about going after your best customers! :rolleyes:
    people using this site were the people that actually BUY music!
    idiots.

    Yeah, I mean all they did was upload it for thousands of people to aquire illegaly.

    I don't know where I really stand on this, tbh.
  • Thisisausername
    Thisisausername Posts: 2
    Well, since only the top 2% of recording artists make any money off of album sales, one assumes the crime is depriving the labels of funds. So the more bands stop trying to peddle their wares in an outdated system they don't actually need, the less this will be an issue.
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    McParadigm wrote:
    Well, since only the top 2% of recording artists make any money off of album sales, one assumes the crime is depriving the labels of funds. So the more bands stop trying to peddle their wares in an outdated system they don't actually need, the less this will be an issue.

    wow 2%?
  • tkepearljamn
    tkepearljamn Posts: 583
    Has someone that has downloaded an album ever been sent to jail. I was an oink user. I always kept a bare minimum ratio.

    How nervous should I be?

    75% of the stuff I downloaded I own on cd or Vinyl or was demo's or live material.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Pegasus wrote:
    talk about going after your best customers! :rolleyes:
    people using this site were the people that actually BUY music!
    idiots.
    That certainly goes for me.

    I went on a bit of a binge when I first got my account, the novelty and all, lol. But after awhile I'd rarely use it, and usually to have a listen to a CD I was considering buying anyway. I'd dl it, and if it was as good as I'd hoped for I'd go buy it. I probably bought more CDs after I got on Oink than I did before.

    Sad day :(
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • mulva9
    mulva9 Posts: 417
    tkepearljamn wrote:
    Has someone that has downloaded an album ever been sent to jail. I was an oink user. I always kept a bare minimum ratio.

    How nervous should I be?

    75% of the stuff I downloaded I own on cd or Vinyl or was demo's or live material.

    180,000 users is a lot to go after. I would think that if any, they would go after those who have shared the most.
  • illfated
    illfated Posts: 65
    LOL, we are all fucked...LOLOLOL...Oh wait I buy my Cd's and use oiNK for backup. OH wait..shit gotta delete something :)
  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    I cried a little when I heard this.
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Also something tells me those of us on this side of the pond should be OK, doesn't look like the FBI was involved.
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    McParadigm wrote:
    Well, since only the top 2% of recording artists make any money off of album sales, one assumes the crime is depriving the labels of funds. So the more bands stop trying to peddle their wares in an outdated system they don't actually need, the less this will be an issue.


    the top 2 percent and anyone else who are making large sums of money for the label are supplying the funds for the 'unknown' artist to get signed to a label who probably wont recoup on there initial album sales. So instead of signing an interesting/original artist, the record companies sign cookie cutter artists that sound just like the top two percent artists because the labels know that they'll sell albums no problem.

    So all those 14 year old brittney spears fans who are actually buying the album are helping indie artists get on major labels more than the 18 year old male who downloads the album to 'fight the system' and 'support the artist'.

    Yeah buying tickets to shows and t-shirt sales will go to the band directly, but without funding the record label, don't expect anything interesting to be released on major labels or on the big radio stations.
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    yeah this totally ruined my day
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    like badly, I had the sweetes ratio in town, sad...:( sad enough to use an emoticon
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  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    You know what I am going to miss? DVD rips. People on OiNK did a killer job with those and that is kind of a pain in the ass to do.

    goddamnit
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • moemoe6434
    moemoe6434 Posts: 468
    McParadigm wrote:
    Well, since only the top 2% of recording artists make any money off of album sales, one assumes the crime is depriving the labels of funds. So the more bands stop trying to peddle their wares in an outdated system they don't actually need, the less this will be an issue.

    2%?????????? Completely unfounded pulled out of the ass statistics are the sign of an uneducated response to an illegal activity.
    "If she don't love me no more, i know her sister will" Jimi Hendrix
  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    sadprofessor wrote:
    You know what I am going to miss? DVD rips. People on OiNK did a killer job with those and that is kind of a pain in the ass to do.

    goddamnit

    agreed and I just got a new connection I was downloading at like 700 kb/s which is a good 4 times faster than before
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    Chris Cornell

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  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    Very strange how copyright infringement is a priority for Interpol whereas market-rigging and price fixing by major record companies isn't worthy of punishment.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    bharQ wrote:
    Very strange how copyright infringement is a priority for Interpol whereas market-rigging and price fixing by major record companies isn't worthy of punishment.

    that would be a really valid argument....except its not true, because they are going after that.

    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article737029.ece
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    sadprofessor wrote:
    You know what I am going to miss? DVD rips. People on OiNK did a killer job with those and that is kind of a pain in the ass to do.

    goddamnit
    Oh man, I hadn't even thought of that! I don't know how to do that at all either. :(
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963

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