BOiNK is 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 should be available on the BOiNK.cd domain.

Things are moving pretty fast on Torrent Space and I believe that the Pirate Bay are doing a good job at keeping the MPAA, RIAA, IFPI, BPI at bay. Things are gonna be a little different at BOiNK, the most important thing will be that it will be a public tracker rather than the private tracker that OiNK really was. Well that means we’re going to see a lot of people leeching the torrents and polluting the Torrent Sphere.

A lot depends on the OiNK community, they have to come over to BOiNK and start uploading everything that they had shared on BOiNK. This also sends out a very strong message to the Anti Piracy organizations, that if you kill one tracker a thousand others will pop up. Call it a Slap on the face if you want.

Well here is a screenshot of The Pirate Bay Admin working on BOiNK. You can expect BOiNK to go live within a week from now.

My best wishes are with the Pirate Bay and I really hope that BOiNK does well and becomes one of the biggest public trackers out there, and never shuts down!

I am posting the chat transcript for you all to read and ponder upon. If there any questions that you would like to ask hop on to irc://arrogant.xevion.net or email kman922002[at]gmail.com.

friggy :  you just get bailed for free?
OiNK : Yes

smartface :  does the paypal account have any funds on it ATM?
OiNK : it had some, and the account has been permanently limited
smartface : did they actually question you?
OiNK :  of course, for hours
OiNK : the police had very limited technical knowledge, which made the interview quite amusing actually.
OiNK :  i wasn’t willing to teach them how to use a computer
OiNK :  they actually wanted me to teach them how to set up a website
OiNK : i just told them to google it.
smartface : have you become a millionarie with our donations?
OiNK : no
smartface : are you planned for a trial anytime soon?
OiNK : the earliest date for trial is 26th december – though highly unlikely

Xenafor : IS YOUR FATHER OKAY AS WELL?
OiNK : my father is fine.
OiNK : my father was not arrested, though they did take his work laptop
Xenafor : Are you a vegetarian?
OiNK : yes.

apelure : what does the charges about fraud mean?
OiNK : i’ve not been charged …

Stormx2 : Everyone is first and foremost concerned for you and everything, but at the back of our minds (I think) we’re interested in what you think will happen the the pink palace. Obviously you won’t have a starring roll, but will the backups be destroyed?
OiNK : " why would backups be destroyed?

j2los : do you think at minimum the forums will be restored as a community for discussing music?
OiNK : i don’t know
j2los : do you think it is absurd that only now that the site has been taken down has it been deemed notable enough for a wikipedia article?
OiNK : i found that amusing, yes
OiNK : i’m glad the article is staying neutral

guildmast : Are there any plans for an official OiNK donations fund we can feel comfortable donating to?
OiNK : not yet

ftdrs : seriously though, what did they accuse you of?
OiNK : conspiracy to defraud and copyright infringements

maxdoubt : do you have/need legal representation?
OiNK : i’m still deciding on legal advice

Kevix : did you have any warning before hand that the knock open your door was coming?
OiNK : no

Yawg : did you anticipate a raid in the past? Did you take any precautions regarding site design and logs and whatnot to protect the community?
OiNK : the logs we store aren’t enough to inciminate users

Gl1mw0rm : are you still the rigtfull owner of the oink.cd domain?
OiNK : unclear

Barth : what about the recent security/privacy changes to the site and the irc? was that a coincidence or did you see something coming?
OiNK : coincidence

midnightgt : (without incriminating anyone) is there any copy of the source anywhere? Would you be in support of a second coming of the website? How do you think this reflects on the war on file sharing? (Certainly I do not feel like we are losing)
OiNK : sorry, no comment

ATF : did you get fired from work?
OiNK : yes

Well that answers a lot of questions I am sure. If you have been an OiNK user in the past please tell how it feels like when the site is no more. I am keeping my fingers crossed for sure. I am pretty much sure something like OiNK will come up somewhere soon.

Via IRC Logs

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Well things are not going so well in the Bittorrent arena. After recent troubles with TorrentSpy we have lost one of the biggest private Bittorrent trackers in the world, in the form of Oink.cd. Well I have never been able to find myself a invite to Oink but I have to say a lot of people say that if you are a Music fan then Oink is for you.

Well Torrentfreak reports that the admin of Oink has been arrested and the servers of Oink have been raided. Well that means a deluge of people who have been sharing music on Oink are likely to be sued very soon. In a global investigation that had the international Anti Piracy organisations like IFPI and BPI along with Interpol lead to the arrest of the admin and a raid on his father’s house and his employer. 

Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: “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.”

If you visit the Oink homepage, then a message that reads something like this, greets you.

This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police 

(FIOD ECD)into suspected illegal music distribution. 

A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the 

site's users

The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it. Looks like Online Piracy is headed for a stormy road ahead.

We’ll keep you updated as things develop.