OiNK shut down by British & Dutch police
OiNK, the world’s biggest online sources of pirated music, was shut down yesterday by British and Dutch police, they also arrested the Website’s 24-year-old suspected operator.
OiNK was an invitation-only Website, (users were invited to the site only if they could prove they had music to share), that specialized in distributing albums leaked before their official release by record companies according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, (IFPI).
OiNK was estimated to have 180,000+ members that paid “donations” to upload or download albums, many of them before their release, and in just a few hours the albums would be distributed through public forums and blogs across the Internet.
The IFPI claim that more than 60 albums were leaked on OiNK so far this year alone, making it the primary source worldwide for illegal pre-release music.
The 24-year-old IT, (Information Technology), worker was arrested at a house in Middlesbrough, England, followed a two-year investigation by Dutch and British police.
OiNK’s servers, were also shut down in Amsterdam by Dutch police
The head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit said:
“This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”
Recorded music sales have fallen by more than 1/3 internationally in the last six years.
There has already been an OiNK Memorial blog set up and considering OiNK was only shut down yesterday the Memorial site is really quite complete!
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