I’ve just woke up and read that Oink is down. This is a sad day for the music! Not always agreeing with the admins over there, I still found a lot of great music on Oink and the community that surround the site was just amazing.
Many people have called me today and asked for comments already. I have lots of e-mail in my inbox about this from journalists that wants my response to it. And most of the e-mails that I’ve got today actually wonder if TPB is going to open a replacement site for Oink.
What it looks like right now? No. I would love for someone else to please do this work this time. Basing everything around one single group that has too much to do already is not good. I’ve talked about the internet as a hydra before, and I do urge people again – start up your own sites. Make lots of them. If there was 100 sites like Oink, none of them would be a so big and easy target as Oink was today. The most important thing for survival is to spread.
There are also a lot of other good music sites out there, don’t forget that. Of course Oink will be missed, but more importantly it will have to be replaced with a number of new sites together with the fact that the old ones will grow.
By the way – is it actually fair that IFPI and BPI get their logo up on OiNK? The police seize the servers, put the admin in jail and give the people who has sued (but he’s not been found guilty yet) free advertising on the webpage? Come on, the more I think about it, it’s just sick. It should be a logo for the police or something. This is hacking! “This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI etc”. Oh. When did they become police authorities that can investigate criminal stuff?
Update: I talked on BBC Five Live about OiNK being shut down. As usual, IFPI did not want to debate and just didn’t show as I was under the impression they would. How odd.
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