A vibrant music community has been ended
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Pretty insane. Oink has been raided and the owner has been arrested.
Oink was a really neat tracker. It was apparently fast, clean and super easy. Apparently it was the biggest private bittorrent tracker. Around 180k users. That is a lot of dedicated users.
It taught a bunch of people I know about bittorrent. It was used by anyone from joe smoe to actual musicians. It was a huge music community.
It is a bummer that it is gone. But I imagine something better will pop up shortly. What a sad day for music.
Here is the press release from IFPI. Here is the article comments at DIGG.