Oink is shut down

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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I'm gonna miss their "how to" posts too, they were very good and very detailed. Like a dumbass, I don't think I saved any of them.

    Damnit, I keep thinking of more reasons to be upset about this.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    my question is "where now?" cause I don't know shit

    ok so anyone with a libble invite?
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  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    i got on libble.... its a miniscule fraction of the greatness that was oink...but hey gotta start somewhere.

    if you join their irc channel they are being nice about giving out invites.
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • muppet
    muppet Posts: 980
    Well dammit people, it looks like - you ready for this? - you'll have to actually BUY stuff you want to listen to or watch. It's a hard thing to grasp, I know.

    You can argue about the evils of record companies all you want - and I'd probably agree with you - but at the end of the day, a large sharing site such as Oink was always going to be shut down one day or another. There'll probably be another similar site up and running in a few days anyway...
  • xkevvx
    xkevvx Posts: 348
    What's all this talk about having to go out and BUY music I wanna listen to????? They sell that stuff now?
  • keyser
    keyser Posts: 67
    very sad day.....if only i knew before i could download all the ratio i had a hard time keeping up.

    I'll miss the most the "top tens" and the (*sniff*) "christmas season"

    Anyone kind enough too give a libble invite?
    If nothing is everything, I will have it all
  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    There is a OiNK memorial message board.
    http://www.ohax.com/phpBB2/index.php

    And OiNK memorial t-shirts.
    http://www.cafepress.com/neverforgetoink

    I found out at work yesterday (about our loss), and I was depressed all day long.

    It wasn't about free music. It was about learning about bands you wouldn't have heard of anywhere else. And being able to listen to an album (in good quality) before you chose to buy it. It was a great community, and it makes me so sad to know that it is gone.
    Cock Fight.
  • lukin321
    lukin321 Charlotte, NC Posts: 865
    Long time oink user having trouble rounding up a libble invite...any kind souls? I can trade you for something :)
    9/1/98, 8/9/00, 8/12/00, 4/11/03, 4/12/03, 4/13/03, 4/19/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04, 10/3/04, 10/8/04, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 6/11/08, 6/12/08, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09, 10/30/2013, 4/8/2016, 4/9/2016, 4/11/2016, 4/13/2016
  • bone
    bone Posts: 499
    Looking for a libble as well. Unfortunately, all I have to offer is a pedro invite.
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  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Apparently the Libble community all over the web is getting slammed right now with people looking for invites... Apparently they are doing "interviews" in the IRC channel. I will take an invite if I can get one, but this is just too much.
    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.
  • kenshunt
    kenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    im trying to get on libble, but they just are being childish bitches :(
    London 2005
    Toronto 2011 night 2
    Hamilton 2011
    London 2013
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    they were being nice yesterday when it was quiet...i even joked "if this site hits the oink memorial site.. have fun with that"..... i can't believe that it actually did

    http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    I think the best thing would be for things to splinter a bit, sure more trackers, more logins is a pain in the ass, but if things don't get huge then they don't attract attention.

    I loved OiNK, it was singlehandedly responsible for me getting into an enormous amount of music (and consequently spending a lot of money on that music through shows and merch). But it sure would be nice to have a community of that quality without the gestapo tactics of the site admins.

    On the flip side, I wonder if the site moderators being so strict and nazi like helped keep that site up as long as it was. You know, they kept the the riff raff out.
    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.
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    yeah people that were never on oink are quick to call us thieves... i drop so much money at shows and go to pretty much everything that comes here. bands make more off that then sales of a record i would have never heard of had it not somehow made top 10 on oink
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • ashtrayrock
    ashtrayrock Posts: 167
    mookeywrench wrote:
    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


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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    bharQ wrote:
    yeah people that were never on oink are quick to call us thieves... i drop so much money at shows and go to pretty much everything that comes here. bands make more off that then sales of a record i would have never heard of had it not somehow made top 10 on oink


    Yes but in order for bands to put out records to the masses of fans across the globe, they need album sales.

    They won't be able to do that until another catalyst is found outside of a record lable.

    The only unknown band to have true 'label' style success without signing to a label was Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, but once they were 'discovered' they still had to sign a distribution deal by two labels to get their record out to europe and the US.

    Other bands who are avoiding the labels have done so through the success of tenure and establishing a dedicated fan base...through record labels. Those are your Radioheads, NIN, and Pearl Jam
  • Marie Curie
    Marie Curie Posts: 1,250
    sadprofessor wrote:
    Apparently the Libble community all over the web is getting slammed right now with people looking for invites... Apparently they are doing "interviews" in the IRC channel. I will take an invite if I can get one, but this is just too much.


    Just go to their IRC channel and they'll give one. I got one yesterday and they just asked me why I deserved to be invited. But the site itself is very fustrating, only 5,000 users, nowhere near what Oink used to be.
    bone wrote:
    Looking for a libble as well. Unfortunately, all I have to offer is a pedro invite.

    Can I have your pedro invite? All I have to offer is a demonoid invite. I had torrentleech invites, but they closed the site yesterday, probably because of what happened to oink
    “Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Yes but in order for bands to put out records to the masses of fans across the globe, they need album sales.

    They won't be able to do that until another catalyst is found outside of a record lable.

    The only unknown band to have true 'label' style success without signing to a label was Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, but once they were 'discovered' they still had to sign a distribution deal by two labels to get their record out to europe and the US.

    Other bands who are avoiding the labels have done so through the success of tenure and establishing a dedicated fan base...through record labels. Those are your Radioheads, NIN, and Pearl Jam

    I don't know why you felt you needed to put in the last paragraph.
    Cock Fight.
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    Tek Money wrote:
    I don't know why you felt you needed to put in the last paragraph.

    to further explain that no modern day musician has ever been successful without the need of a record label
  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    mookeywrench wrote:
    to further explain that no modern day musician has ever been successful without the need of a record label

    Right, but what does that have to do with OiNK being shut down?

    I think the explination was that without OiNK he would have not found these artist, and wouldn't have helped their tours, merch tables, record sales without it.

    Every little bit counts. And define being successful...
    Cock Fight.

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