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Idolator Presents Five Not-All-That-Ridiculous Ways To Celebrate Rocktober
Congratulations, world! You somehow made it all the way to Oct. 1, 2008, which means one thing: It’s time for Rocktober to start. How will you celebrate? Some people are linking to YouTubes of Who songs. Others are hoping that you’ll have a hankering to hear the Divinyls and Foreigner within the same span of time. One guy who got the coveted domain name “rocktober.com” is even saying that we should bring back Metallica Monday, although I know of a few people who might disagree with that idea. Which is why I have five Rocktober-celebration suggestions of my own, all of which are located after the jump. MORE »
It’s A Bad Week To Be A Former Admin Of A Torrent Site
It was almost a year ago when the cute-avatar-adorned BitTerrorist hub OiNK got shut down by British and Dutch law enforcement, and today, former OiNK admin Alan Ellis was charged with conspiracy to defraud, while at least two former users of the site were charged with copyright infringement by the British authorities. (I’m sure some still-weeping OiNK fan has already made a semi-tortured 9/11 reference, if precedent is any indication.) MORE »
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OiNK Users Arrested, Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud The Music Industry
The UK’s Cleveland Police have confirmed to TorrentFreak that last month they arrested six users of shuttered BitTorrent site OiNK, which broke the Internet’s heart when it was shut down by British authorities last October. All six of the arrested ex-OiNKers are being accused of releasing pre-release music to the site; whether they are being targeted for having leaked major-label releases only is unclear. All six–five men and one women, all between the ages of 19 and 33–were charged with “conspiracy to defraud the music industry” and are currently out on bail. TorrentFreak has more on the charges (obligatory warning to take any hyperbole within the description with a grain of salt goes here): MORE »
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“New York” Tries To Sum Up Music Leak Culture
If you’ve paid half-attention to the news cycle as regards illegal file sharing over the last 12 months, then you’ve already gleaned the gist of “Ripped To Shreds,” where writer Adrienne Day interviews the founder of former BitTorrent hub OiNK, nameless members (and ex-members) of “ripping crews,”… MORE »
OiNK Successor’s Users Get Mash Notes From “RIAA”
Remember all that smug talk about the “multi-headed hydra” of BitTorrent sites that spring up after OiNK went to piggy heaven? Well–shock!–those heads may have gotten a little too big a little too quickly. A tipster writes: “Apparently the user database at What.cd was hacked and all of the users got a love letter from the ‘RIAA.’ In the haste to get oink replacements out and well populated, there have been some severe security lapses. Almost makes me want to stop the whole torrent thing. Almost. ” B-but we thought OiNK and its descendants were all about the community, and not playing stupid hacker tricks on a gullible userbase! Anyway, the “RIAA” e-mail is after the jump. It’s pretty obviously fake–note the British spelling of “offense,” for one!–but then again, the fact that OiNK’s post-raid homepage seems to seriously be using “Never Forget 10/23″ in its logo should serve as a sign that the irony-o-meters of a lot of people are out of whack. MORE »
I know that people were really broken up about the “tragic” loss of BitTerrorist hub OiNK last week, but were they so attached to the tweeer-than-thou community there that they took screenshots of their profiles while the site was still kicking? MORE »
I know that people were really broken up about the “tragic” loss of BitTerrorist hub OiNK last week, but were they so attached to the tweeer-than-thou community there that they took screenshots of their profiles while the site was still kicking? MORE »
