Oink shut down

[isoform]

The Pirate Bay to bring back oink as boink.cd

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-bring-back-oink-071026/

October 26, 2007 The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.

[Tisswat]

Also from torrentfreak.com:

Yesterday, in the wake of the OiNK takedown, we made a report about possible action against Norwegian BitTorrent trackers. In it we revealed that a tipoff suggested that the OiNK database had been equipped with a ’self-destruct’ mechanism and was also encrypted.

‘OiNK’ himself participated in a short Q&A and the truth is that this is not the case. Here is a rundown of the salient points:

The raid was completely unexpected and came with no warning at all but steps had already been taken to protect the users. Although there was no ’self-destruct’ or encryption according to OiNK, “the logs we store aren’t enough to incriminate users.” This will come as a huge relief to ex-members of OiNK.

I seriously doubt that they will be going after individual users. If you look at all the ratios, most of them are below zero (at least in my case) so that means you didn't even upload an entire item for 100%, unless you created and uploaded the torrent yourself as initial seeder. However, I wonder what they're going to do about the people who have been top-seeders and torrent creators. They have been banging on about OiNK being a 'pre-release site' so they must be interested in nailing some of the members responsible for leaking releases. The question remains whether they can make anything stick. I for one am not at all worried. Shame about my ratio though.. :[

[poly800rock]

i think they were more interested in those people who got the major label leaks. At least that's what one article said.

[Guest DUM]

I liked that OiNK was private though, boink won't be...but I guess it's worth a try.

[PaperSt.]

Didn't Oink start as a public tracker though? You have to have a few members before you can make it private or there is no one to give out invites.

[mellowbonsai]

oink.cx.la?

[Guest DUM]

Paper, I guess.

mellow, hopefully...

edit: cx.la looks really fake to me.

[red]

shit. this is sad news. 50% of my music collection is from oink. and i planned on downloading an arrest-worthy amount nextweek when i got my own laptop.

:(:(:(:(:(

[red]

so boink and libble are (hopefully) going to be oink replacements?

[polishmike]

so boink and libble are (hopefully) going to be oink replacements?

Yes. I got an email from a friend who's well informed and he said next week after the The Oil of the 21st Century conference the site will go up. It's not an oink project so it will depend on oink users to upload back their torrents. Pirate Bay has more secure servers so hopefully it will last longer.

[poly800rock]

the strict quality of mp3s on oink is really what made oink, oink imo

[red]

the strict quality of mp3s on oink is really what made oink, oink imo

exactly. i refused to download anywhere else because of this.

[polishmike]

the strict quality of mp3s on oink is really what made oink, oink imo

A lot of mp3s were VBR coded and I prefer the bigger files with higher bitrates. I also don't support the download ratio, anti-leech lobby. I'm all for open trackers.

[poly800rock]

i agree....somewhat. I've personally never had an open tracker download at the rate some of the oink stuff on a consistent basis though. Hopefully stuff like that won't change

[red]

dont know if its already been posted, but:

http://www.ohax.com/phpBB2/index.php

[Tisswat]

Another advantage of OiNK was that they removed inactive torrents. I've never found a download that wouldn't complete or took too long.

Will we be needing Pirate Bay accounts for that BOiNK project or will it be open for everyone?

[polishmike]

Possibly it will be open.

[mmfood]

whats up with indietorrents? can anyone log in or is the site down?

[red]

what did you guys usually download?

im a 320 mp3 kind of guy. VBR and shit was always bad quality for some reason.

i did download a shoddy version of "some one to call my lover" by janet jackson though. just because it wasnt available in any other version.

Back on the road again

Feeling kinda lonely and

Looking for the right guy to be mine...................

[sidneylo]

Mostly 320 though VBR if the shit is just some album of the week type stuff.

Boink.cd will be our new savior. Cheers PB.

[isoform]

V0, 192

i prefer quantity over superquality.

bulkdownloadsss!

as long as there's no hissing and crackling i'm good.

only grabbed 320, or even lossless, for albums i really liked.

[Tisswat]

V0, 192

i prefer quantity over superquality.

bulkdownloadsss!

as long as there's no hissing and crackling i'm good.

only grabbed 320, or even lossless, for albums i really liked.

Same here.

Besides, there is a debate on whether people can actually distinguish >192kbps quality. I've hear 128kbit that sounded fine and 320kbit that sounded awful, so bitrate isn't everything.

I'm using Soulseek again.. I find it the best of all non-torrent solutions.

[ProfMonnitoff]

192CBR and 160VBR is about where i stop being able to tell the difference. I keep lossless versions of CDs that mean a lot to me, but generally I don't really care.

[PaperSt.]

Only 320, I can't really tell the difference above 192 but who know what kind of crazy audio technology will be out down the line and I don't want to have to re-dl everthing.

[Guest DUM]

[chris_n]

commonly i can't tell the difference after 192+ or v0

but 128 makes my ears cry

i hope boink doesn't suck

[mwrenchd]

whats up with indietorrents? can anyone log in or is the site down?

not down, just making you work a little for it.

[Servo2000]

Same here.

Besides, there is a debate on whether people can actually distinguish >192kbps quality. I've hear 128kbit that sounded fine and 320kbit that sounded awful, so bitrate isn't everything.

I'm using Soulseek again.. I find it the best of all non-torrent solutions.

Soulseek is a pain in the ass on OS X. The tracker I used to use required some unusual OS X developer kit that I can't find anymore, and I have yet to find one I enjoy using.

Anyone know of a decent one?

Superfuture soulseek channel?

[Servo2000]

Same here.

Besides, there is a debate on whether people can actually distinguish >192kbps quality. I've hear 128kbit that sounded fine and 320kbit that sounded awful, so bitrate isn't everything.

I'm using Soulseek again.. I find it the best of all non-torrent solutions.

Soulseek was great, but now it's a pain in the ass on OS X. The tracker I used to use required some unusual OS X developer kit that I can't find anymore, and I have yet to find one I enjoy using.

Anyone know of a decent one?

Superfuture soulseek channel?

[Mr Waffles]

You had hope at being a good invitie. you were the only one who cared to actually seed anything.