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Oink's main page after closure.

Oink's Pink Palace (frequently written as OiNK) was a prominent BitTorrent tracker located at http://www.oink.cd, previously http://oink.me.uk. On October 23, 2007 it was shut down by IFPI, BPI, and other organizations.[1]

The site was an invite-only BitTorrent community, with a membership of around 180,000 members at the time of closure. Only around 80,000 were regularly active. It was mainly oriented around sharing full music albums in high-bitrate and FLAC, but also tracking other files such as e-books. In contrast to the opinion of the police, the site's main purpose was not to release albums before they were commercially released. The albums that were leaked early only accounted for a very small percentage of the total music.

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Oink was the largest source of leaked albums in the world, claiming that it was responsible for leaking more than 60 major album releases in 2007 alone.[2] However, Oink was not the source of these leaks, the leaks stemmed from the private FTP servers of the scene, which then leaked copies to other torrent sites. Due to Oink's popularity, releases were often posted there hours before other private and public torrent sites.

Although open to optional donations to cover costs for the servers, it has been wrongly reported that Oink was a pay site, where members would have to purchase "downloading rights." Donations to the site did not offer user membership under any circumstances. In fact, there was a policy in place to ban permanently any user caught offering or accepting money for a membership invitation. Also, members did not have to pay to keep their membership, they could simply log on once every 6 weeks. It was also wrongly reported that the site required users to upload their own pirated content in order to remain on the site. Many users simply seeded new torrents that they downloaded in order to keep the variable required ratio (starting at .15). As per policy, a donation to the site would not effect the user's ratio or offer any other downloading/uploading privileges.

References

  1. ^ "Illegal music sharing website closed down". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  2. ^ "British and Dutch police raids shut down the world's largest pre-release pirate music site". IFPI. Retrieved 2007-10-23.

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