Oink is no more
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subversplat
writer of wrongs
Have a lookagentred said:
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Well, they've got a list of IP addresses already, so they (the police computer crime unit, I suppose?) get the IP address and the time, and they ask the ISP to give the names and addresses of all the accounts using that address at that time. If the ISPs won't give it to them, then they can apply to the court for an injunction ordering them to give the information on pain of prosecution.wishface said:
Or they could just send nasty letters to the ISPs asking for all the accounts to be shut down.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
What a steaming great load of shit, I knew I should have pushed my d/l limit more, this was obviously gonna happen sooner or later 
Wondered why a few torrents just stopped loading over the last couple of days
But yeah a fund should be set up to help the geezer with court costs etc, only fair
Wondered why a few torrents just stopped loading over the last couple of days
But yeah a fund should be set up to help the geezer with court costs etc, only fair
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Hopefully Oink used Truecrypt or something similar...
My home computer is still seeding some 25 oink files...
My home computer is still seeding some 25 oink files...
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Yetman said:What a steaming great load of shit, I knew I should have pushed my d/l limit more, this was obviously gonna happen sooner or later
Wondered why a few torrents just stopped loading over the last couple of days
But yeah a fund should be set up to help the geezer with court costs etc, only fair
init -wish I'd fucked with my 1.3 ratio, oh well something will appear to replace it
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Why would they bother, they can just run through the server logs and see when you were sharing?subversplat said:Anyone worried about getting "busted" can do the following:
Get www.truecrypt.org and install it
Make a virtual hard drive big enough to put all your naughty stuff in (use a nice big password, a whole sentence would do - especially one with numbers "my dog is 7 years old next september" would be a nice one to remember, iyswim)
Put all your files in said hard drive
Optional: Delete your entire OS installation and install from scratch
Give your disk a scrub: http://www.webmasterfree.com/Hard_Disk_Scrubber_2.0_d1472.html
Laugh at the feds
While it may be possible to get various bits of data back with a multi-million pound setup and electron microsocopes, I highly doubt that they would bother for some low-level copyright infringement
Structaural
in Chatsubo
agentred said:
Put all your music/movie files in your home folder (documents) and use Filevault? - not worth it unless your mac is powerful.
Have a look on here too:
http://www.securemac.com/
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Yeah, but there's nothing to convict you with.sleaterkinney said:
kained&able
Here for the football.
so why won't demonoid or whoever else be raided. Was oink really popular or a soft target cos of where the servers were located or what?
tv links & oink in about a week, there saeems to be a crack down going on.
dave
tv links & oink in about a week, there saeems to be a crack down going on.
dave
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Can't they see that you were uploading such and such a file?subversplat said:
subversplat
writer of wrongs
That sort of evidence would be shot down in seconds in court. You'd need to be in posession of the copyrighted material first, and then they might use the server logs as backup evidence to show that you were distributing them across the internet.sleaterkinney said:
Without the actual files though all they are is a bunch of filenames in a text document.
ExtraRefined
Better than you at everything you love
Truecrypt is no use here. If they have a list of what you uploaded and downloaded, and your paypal details, they'll hardly need to mount a dawn raid to level a easily winnable civil suit. I'd be looking more at changing ISP, closing my paypal and bank accounts, and moving house.
That said, the 99% of users that didn't donate or upload are almost certainly safe.
That said, the 99% of users that didn't donate or upload are almost certainly safe.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
hiccup said:
I uploaded about 4-5 albums. To get my ratio up right at the begining.
I hope that is admissable in court.
ExtraRefined
Better than you at everything you love
hiccup said:
I mean uploaded new stuff, as opposed to just seeding existing torrents.
The idea, as suggested on radio one this lunchtime, that the admins made hundreds of thousands of pounds is laughable. IIRC, something like 8000 users had donor status, and most of those probably only donate $5=£2. Most of that will have gone on the site's enormous running costs - it has something like 100 times as many active users as this place, many of whom would be hitting it 24/7.
It wasn't a source for mainstream pre-release material either - almost all of that came from scene sources, from which oink was at least a few steps removed. It wasn't even a top rank bittorrent site; sites like TL, FTN & ST all have zero-min pre times, compared to zero-week on oink.
dogmatique
merde alors
He could really have done more to protect himself, and at least make it vaguely difficult for the authorities.
I found his name and home address and phone number in seconds:
http://samspade.org/whois/oink.cd
I found his name and home address and phone number in seconds:
http://samspade.org/whois/oink.cd
ExtraRefined
Better than you at everything you love
N1 Buoy said:
Scene mp3 standards are higher than oink's were.
dogmatique
merde alors
wishface said:
If he took that little care with his own identity, how much do you think he's taken with ours??
Seriously though they just don't have the resources to go after users.
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