Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raids

Considered one of the world's largest illegal sources of prerelease music, members-only service was focus of a two-year investigation.

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[allwrong]

propaganda

Oink was NOT a pre-release site it was a FREE site by invite only for sharing music and ebooks. The article above stinks of propaganda.

[skeptik]

propaganda?

don't all piracy news stories?

[krosavcheg]

the pirate bay

"A raid in Sweden last year shut down an Internet site that police said was a major source of music and film piracy."

so, TPB: http://thepiratebay.org/ is still down? that's big news.

[skeff22]

Meh

I'll start becoming concerned when musicians are getting paid the amount that is more practical. Some bands are a joke and need to be weeded out. If a method like this makes that happen, I'm for it. Perhaps expanding your tour beyond the US may help out with your fan base.
You never hear about these industries employees getting flack for this... just the people they give it to.
Two years to take down one site... a waste of expenses by police and a waste of extreme influence the recording labels gave them.

[skeptik]

ah yes...

Yes makes sense... the old "I only pirate because the product I'm stealing is so bad" argument.
If the music sucks, it should be pirated. However if the music is good, I'll go buy it.
However if the music is really good and the band and/or the label makes a lot of money, it should be pirated again because nobody deserves to make lots of money... especially since there is no good music anymore so it's OK to pirate everything anyway. Besides, those people make too much money. And if they shut down all piracy, I'll never buy music again. So there!

Give me a break. You're a hypocrite.

[Proustian]

What else do you expect from the MAFIAA?

They will use fascism to close down any BitTorrent site they don't like. Even if those BitTorrent sites only contain the torrent files and the real files aren't even stored on the BitTorrent web sites.