Two months of investigation, and the FSM knows how much money took for the Interpol and other authorities to take under arrest the 24 year old dude responsible for one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers out there “OiNK“.
The excuse?
“OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. 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”
Which of course it’s not under discussion that this guys have it all wrong, but somehow it seems that they’re gonna make everything they can to give this case a hard time. I believe that OiNK’s administrator can protect himself from much of the accusations because of the nature of this technology as we all know, but somehow, authorities are accusing that this website was “encouraging people to upload copyrighted material”, which of course is stupid, but hey… They’re doing it.
A part of me has died today, I hope that OiNK survives this along with The PirateBay, Demonoid and Suprnova, all of them trackers that were brought up to the authorities in the last year or two.
More news and details found here. Via GigWise. Image: TorrentFreak
Update: Official press release (Damn you!)
Update 2: OiNK’s home page displays this advice: “A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users”
WHAT TO DO NOW?