WTF is going on? First, OiNK gets shut down, administrator gets under custody. Then, I realize that Demonoid has been blocked (at least for me and some of my friends) in Mexico (I’ve managed to enter by proxy successfully), and then TVLinks has been reported as shut down by authorities and 26 year old man arrested for the facilitation of copyright infringement (this last one is not related to the IFPI though).
Are they missing something or what!?
I really don’t understand why they’ve decided to take this actions on October 2007. It would have made perfect sense to me a few years ago, but not now, not after everything that we’ve learned, not after artists finally deciding to quit on contracts. And this just keeps getting better and better, now the IFPI is giving this ridiculous and stupid excuses, and they’re actually behaving worse than those they’re trying to reprehend.
Don’t get me wrong for the title of this post, I don’t think that OiNK’s administrator is a pirate, but I definitely believe that the IFPI is worse than those bastards that charge for the distribution of copyrighted material. They’ve managed to hijack OiNK’s website, to put on their propaganda, and all of this without ANY real legal base. Is this an ethic behavior? Also, they are lying without any hesitation about the activities that went inside this private tracker saying that users were charged in order to get their memberships, and of course this is absolutely untrue, I was a member for over a year, and I was NEVER asked for 1 penny. And why not lie some more? They’re also saying that users were encouraged to upload pre-releases, also NOT true, and this is actually they’re strongest argument against the tracker, since OiNK was the primary source of leaks for unreleased albums, but there has been, for a long time, discussion over this because it is very likely that this leaks came from insiders from the record industries themselves.
Pointing the obvious, this is clearly a ‘last-breath’ type of action. Since P2P networks showed up I’ve been questioning myself about the future of record companies (generally speaking), and I’ve always came to the conclusion that they were not meant to disappear, but they’re actually digging dipper into they’re graves by the minute.
There are tons of examples of artists that have managed to use P2P as a beneficial method of distribution along with their record sales. There’s another ton of stories where record industries use P2P networks as ginny pigs for their releases [1]. Why would they take actions such like these?
Deeply, from the heart of a young (and confused) man: Please stop wasting your time and start delivering some new business models for the music biz, stop messing around. We are not afraid of your “scary messages”. Please IFPI, quit the crap!
Now, OiNK’s administrator has been released from custody after a very obvious attempt to scare P2P users, and attracting media’s attention. Here’s a video from BBC covering the arrest:
To put the cherry on the top, Jeremy Banks from the IFPI itself declared that “This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure”. Jeremy… TFSU!!!
Links: TorrentFreak [2] [3]
WHAT TO DO NOW?