Comments on: Pirates Everywhere Pour Out A Little For OiNK http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 13:44:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322422 Anonymous Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:47:21 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322422 <p>i just noticed the bbc's website has a link to an illegal site that actually does charge money for material it has no right to sell<br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6264266.stm">[news.bbc.co.uk]</a><br> i wonder if the bpi will shut down bbc.co.uk?</p> <p>the same criminal site is a big hit with the dutch</p> <p>"Even the official Consumers' Organization in The Netherlands has chosen Allofmp3 as the best place to download music. "The best service by far" was their conclusion after testing seven services available in The Netherlands."</p> <p><a href="http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm">[www.museekster.com]</a></p> i just noticed the bbc’s website has a link to an illegal site that actually does charge money for material it has no right to sell
[news.bbc.co.uk]
i wonder if the bpi will shut down bbc.co.uk?

the same criminal site is a big hit with the dutch

“Even the official Consumers’ Organization in The Netherlands has chosen Allofmp3 as the best place to download music. “The best service by far” was their conclusion after testing seven services available in The Netherlands.”

[www.museekster.com]

]]> By: mike a http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322412 mike a Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:06:06 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322412 <P>Right, it must be Idolator's fault that the free-music party's over. Because OiNK wasn't ON THE INTERNET or anything, thus Maura or Jess must have snitched.</P> <P>Ridiculous. If anything, I give this cite credit for for providing actual legal analysis rather than mere delusional whining about how downloading isn't hurting anyone.</P> Right, it must be Idolator’s fault that the free-music party’s over. Because OiNK wasn’t ON THE INTERNET or anything, thus Maura or Jess must have snitched.

Ridiculous. If anything, I give this cite credit for for providing actual legal analysis rather than mere delusional whining about how downloading isn’t hurting anyone.

]]> By: Paul Irish http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322432 Paul Irish Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:31:28 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322432 <p>Thanks for all your help in <a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/oink/the-oink-top-10-what-the-bitterrorists-are-sharing-this-week-250360.php">publicizing OiNK</a>, you fuckups.</p> Thanks for all your help in publicizing OiNK, you fuckups.

]]> By: Halfwit http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322442 Halfwit Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:14:22 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322442 <p>@<a href="#c2742762">brainchild</a>: I never did either (never invited. :sad:). I was just trying to get some indie cred by going further back than audiogalaxy.</p> <p>In that spirit: Does anyone remember "The Outer Limits"?</p> @brainchild: I never did either (never invited. :sad:). I was just trying to get some indie cred by going further back than audiogalaxy.

In that spirit: Does anyone remember “The Outer Limits”?

]]> By: LingeringBursitis http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322452 LingeringBursitis Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:12:18 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322452 <p>yeah, there's a Cleveland in England too.</p> yeah, there’s a Cleveland in England too.

]]> By: Hrefna http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322462 Hrefna Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:10:26 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322462 <p>The Cleveland in the UK is older than the one in the US :-)</p> The Cleveland in the UK is older than the one in the US :-)

]]> By: AL http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322472 AL Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:50:57 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322472 <p>From oink.cd:<br> "This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, <br> Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into suspected illegal music distribution."</p> <p>Cleveland police??</p> From oink.cd:
“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.”

Cleveland police??

]]> By: CliveDobbs http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322482 CliveDobbs Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:39:01 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322482 <P>From a user in the "OiNK In Memoriam" thread on... another private tracker's forums:</P> <P>"Ha! My wife is a publicist and so far this morning 4 writers have asked her if she was able to get them invites to indie.torrents. I'm not going to say who they write for, but it makes me giggle my ass off."</P> From a user in the “OiNK In Memoriam” thread on… another private tracker’s forums:

“Ha! My wife is a publicist and so far this morning 4 writers have asked her if she was able to get them invites to indie.torrents. I’m not going to say who they write for, but it makes me giggle my ass off.”

]]> By: LingeringBursitis http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322492 LingeringBursitis Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:32:41 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322492 <p>@<a href="#c2743206">Fried Bologna Is Back!</a>: yeah of course I have.... it's just nice to find things on OiNK that you've spent close to a decade fruitlessly searching for [and seriously searching]</p> <p>where's the harm in that?</p> @Fried Bologna Is Back!: yeah of course I have…. it’s just nice to find things on OiNK that you’ve spent close to a decade fruitlessly searching for [and seriously searching]

where’s the harm in that?

]]> By: dokool http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322502 dokool Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:22:03 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322502 <p>Nooooooooooooooooooooooo =(</p> <p>And I was just getting ready to bump my ratio back to normal, too.</p> <p>*pours out one for my homies*</p> Nooooooooooooooooooooooo =(

And I was just getting ready to bump my ratio back to normal, too.

*pours out one for my homies*

]]> By: Kate Richardson http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322512 Kate Richardson Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:00:03 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322512 <p>I think there are very few (if any) ethical excuses for stealing stuff on Oink, but it was a pretty good tool for taste testing. I'd say the vast majority of albums I wasted my ratio on were mere curiosities that, if I hadn't have downloaded them, I'd have just never bothered to buy anyway because I wasn't sure it'd be worth the money. Plus I don't use an iPod, so it was nice to get mp3s rather than those terrible iPod-only files that iTunes gives you.</p> <p>All that being said, it's probably best for karma in general that it got shut down.</p> I think there are very few (if any) ethical excuses for stealing stuff on Oink, but it was a pretty good tool for taste testing. I’d say the vast majority of albums I wasted my ratio on were mere curiosities that, if I hadn’t have downloaded them, I’d have just never bothered to buy anyway because I wasn’t sure it’d be worth the money. Plus I don’t use an iPod, so it was nice to get mp3s rather than those terrible iPod-only files that iTunes gives you.

All that being said, it’s probably best for karma in general that it got shut down.

]]> By: Weezy F Baby http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322522 Weezy F Baby Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:46:53 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322522 <p>i know i shouldn't have burned all my bridges at indietorrents.</p> i know i shouldn’t have burned all my bridges at indietorrents.

]]> By: Fried Bologna Is Back! http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322532 Fried Bologna Is Back! Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:45:51 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322532 <p>@<a href="#c2742682">LingeringBursitis</a>: Ever try one of those old-fashioned "record stores"? They often sell out-of-print vinyl.</p> @LingeringBursitis: Ever try one of those old-fashioned “record stores”? They often sell out-of-print vinyl.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322542 Anonymous Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:37:27 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322542 <p>RIP Pink Palace...</p> <p>It did more good than bad.</p> RIP Pink Palace…

It did more good than bad.

]]> By: mhulot http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322552 mhulot Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:33:49 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322552 <p>Wow. And just a day or two after tv-links.co.uk was shut down. They're not fooling around, are they?</p> Wow. And just a day or two after tv-links.co.uk was shut down. They’re not fooling around, are they?

]]> By: the rich girls are weeping http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322562 the rich girls are weeping Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:21:11 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322562 <p>Oh man. Watch the mp3 blogosphere come crashing down in one fell swoop! Awesome!</p> <p>(Oh, Audiogalaxy! I haven't thought of that in AGES.)</p> Oh man. Watch the mp3 blogosphere come crashing down in one fell swoop! Awesome!

(Oh, Audiogalaxy! I haven’t thought of that in AGES.)

]]> By: Jess Harvell http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322572 Jess Harvell Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:14:33 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322572 <P>Audiogalaxy was the best, it's true. But those were simpler times.</P> Audiogalaxy was the best, it’s true. But those were simpler times.

]]> By: so1omon http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322582 so1omon Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:13:02 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322582 <p>I still haven't gotten over Audiogalaxy. I wasn't an Oink'er anyway. I've never seemed to have any trouble finding things through other means.</p> I still haven’t gotten over Audiogalaxy. I wasn’t an Oink’er anyway. I’ve never seemed to have any trouble finding things through other means.

]]> By: brainchild http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322592 brainchild Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:12:40 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322592 <p>@<a href="#c2742683">Halfwit</a>: i never used oink or had any need to. i was just lamenting the loss of Audiogalaxy which almost singlehandedly doubled my CD collection in the span of one semester in college.</p> @Halfwit: i never used oink or had any need to. i was just lamenting the loss of Audiogalaxy which almost singlehandedly doubled my CD collection in the span of one semester in college.

]]> By: motoraway http://idolator.com/313889/pirates-everywhere-pour-out-a-little-for-oink/comment-page-1#comment-322602 motoraway Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:05:43 +0000 http://a9f441670f7720a93449cab7a9993d1f#comment-322602 <p>I'm not concerned if they have my IP, not much the Canadian government will do, as it's currently not against any law to download here.</p> <p>While I mostly downloaded digital files for the LPs I purchase (a hefty monthly habit), I refuse to purchase any album with only two or three decent songs.</p> I’m not concerned if they have my IP, not much the Canadian government will do, as it’s currently not against any law to download here.

While I mostly downloaded digital files for the LPs I purchase (a hefty monthly habit), I refuse to purchase any album with only two or three decent songs.

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