Oink's Pink Palace
Defunct BitTorrent tracker and music sharing community website / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oink's Pink Palace (frequently stylized as OiNK) was a prominent BitTorrent tracker which operated from 2004 to 2007. Following a two-year investigation by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the site was shut down on 23 October 2007, by British and Dutch police agencies. These music industry organisations described OiNK as an "online pirate pre-release music club", whereas former users described it as one of the world's largest and most meticulously maintained online music repositories.[2] About a month before the shut-down, music magazine Blender elected OiNK's creator, British software engineer Alan Ellis, to their The Powergeek 25 – the Most Influential People in Online Music list.[3] Alan Ellis was tried for conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown Court, the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal file-sharing, and found not guilty on 15 January 2010.[4]
Type of site | Private BitTorrent tracker |
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Owner | Alan Ellis (aka Oink) |
Created by | Oink (Modified TBSource) |
Revenue | Voluntary donations |
URL | OiNK.cd or OiNK.me.uk |
Registration | Free, Invitation only |
Launched | 30 May 2004[1] |
Current status | Tracker forcibly shut down |