http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7057812.stm

Huge pirate music site shut down

British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music.
A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.

The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.

'Extremely lucrative'

The IT worker was led from his home in the town's Grange Road and is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law.

At the same time his employer - a large multi-national company - and his father's home were also raided.


Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found
IFPI spokesman

A Cleveland Police spokesman said: "This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up. Membership was by invitation only.

"The site allowed the uploading and downloading of pre-release music and media to thousands of members."

An IFPI spokesman said: "Once an album had been posted on the OiNK website, the users that download that music then passed the content to other websites, forums and blogs, where multiple copies were made.

"Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found further down the illegal online supply chain."

The site's servers, based in Amsterdam, were seized in a series of raids last week.

It followed a two-year investigation by music industry bodies the IFPI and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

Plenty of lies coming out from the IFPI about this shutdown and the site's actual operations. Unfortunately, most of those who read the media will believe it too.

I'm still trying to work out what the guy's father had to do with it, or the large company he worked for... Or was this just a deliberate attempt by the Nazis... sorry, IFPI manipulating the cops, to attack this guy and ruin him as much as possible?

This sucks. In a big way. Seems like as soon as I find out about a good torrent site, it gets shut down!

Princess, if your outside Canada, demonoid is still online.

As for oink, yea, they got it wrong; and his dad has nothing to do with it. The haven't even officially charged Oink's administrator yet.