Wednesday, October 24, 2007

OiNK Speaks! ..the Truth Comes Out... He Doesn't Eat Meat! Shocking!

from: http://dot-slash-csc.iblogger.org/oinkfaq.html

Shocking! He's alive! and... building websites for the PO PO? Say it ain't so! (It ain't)

Questions & Answers from the #OiNK IRC

smartface: does the paypal account have any funds on it ATM?
OiNK: it had some, and the account has been permanently limited
friggy: you just get bailed for free?
OiNK: yes
smartface: did they actually question you?
OiNK: of course, for hours
sretsof: what was the stupidest wuestion they asked?
OiNK: the police had very limited technical knowledge, which made the interview quite amusing actually.
OiNK: i wasn't willing to teach them how to use a computer
OiNK: they actually wanted me to teach them how to set up a website
OiNK: i just told them to google it.
Xenafor: IS YOUR FATHER OKAY AS WELL?
OiNK: my father is fine.
OiNK: my father was not arrested, though they did take his work laptop
apelure: what does the carges about fraud mean?
OiNK: i've not been charged ...
Xenafor: Are you a vegetarian?
OiNK: yes.
knifeboy: Did they do the good cop/bad cop routine?
OiNK: no
Stormx2: Everyone is first and foremost concerned for you and everything, but at the back of our minds (I think) we're interested in what you think will happen the the pink palace. Obviously you won't have a starring roll, but will the backups be destroyed?
OiNK: why would backups be destroyed?
smartface: have you become a millionarie with our donations?
OiNK: no
j2los: do you think at minimum the forums will be restored as a community for discussing music?
OiNK: i don't know
guildmast: Are there any plans for an official OiNK donations fund we can feel comfortable donating to?
OiNK: not yet
ftdrs: seriously though, what did they accuse you of?
OiNK: conspiracy to defraud and copyright infringements
maxdoubt: do you have/need legal representation?
OiNK: i'm still deciding on legal advice
Kevix: did you have any warning before hand that the knock opn your door was coming? OiNK: no
smartface: are you planned for a trial anytime soon?
OiNK: the earliest date for trial is 26th december - though highly unlikely
Yawg: did you anticipate a raid in the past? Did you take any precautions regarding site design and logs and whatnot to protect the community?
OiNK: the logs we store aren't enough to inciminate users
Gl1mw0rm: are you still the rigtfull owner of the oink.cd domain?
OiNK: unclear
Barth: what about the recent security/privacy changes to the site and the irc? was that a coincidence or did you see something coming?
OiNK: coincidence
j2los: do you think it is absurd that only now that the site has been taken down has it been deemed notable enough for a wikipedia article?
OiNK: i found that amusing, yes
OiNK: i'm glad the article is staying neutral
midnightgt: (without incriminating anyone) is there any copy of the source anywhere? Would you be in support of a second coming of the website? How do you think this reflects on the war on file sharing? (Certainly I do not feel like we are losing) OiNK: sorry, no comment :)
lhnz: Why exactly did the cops want you to make a website for them?:P :D
OiNK: not sure
csc: so, do the cops know you're here?
OiNK: dunno
ATF: did you get fired from work?
OiNK: yes
gleam: do you think you or anyone else will ever hear from tmt again? :)
OiNK: no
MooIsTooWrong: do you think most of the people in this
channel are asking asshat questions?
OiNK: yes
uQ1: What grounds did your work fire you?
OiNK: i'm not going to go into that, sorry.



Thanks to our awesome commenters for jumping on this story while we were away setting up nooses for our latest prank.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

second!

Anonymous said...

formatting still kinda sucks though

Anonymous said...

I like how oink.cd uses capital letters on the new website WE ARE ANGRY

Anonymous said...

how about this for a 'Crazy' idea:

The record industry takes over OiNK and leaves it as but opens it up. If OiNK can get so much donations from just 180,000 users then imagine how much they could get if open. Secondly they now save money of PR and marketing. All their artists are now distributated and known! Word of mouth between users will make the good music spread on OiNK like wildfire. Bands are happy because they are getting known ... and more people come and see them on tour.

Record companies also save money using OiNK as they only need a server to host OiNK as the users are spreading the wealth using their bandwidth! They also need not make so many CDs - saving money.

To encourage users to donate they could offer ratio relief for users who would rather pay then upload.

By keeping the ratio requirements users are happy as donwloads remain very fast.

It's a win:win situation and the record companies need to start acting on models such as OiNK that are obviously making money otherwise they wouldn't be bothered to do the bust !

Anonymous said...

.. the servers would still need to be payed for plus more because of the enormous amount of people who would join the site. The community is ruined. I think the idea sucks actually

Anonymous said...

to the anonymous at 1:11

While I appreciate the sentiment, don't speak for the entire userbase. I'm sure there were one or two sickos that loved TMT! Granted, I'm not one of them, but meh.

Anonymous said...

what a slew of dumb questions this was. really terrible interview.

Anonymous said...

Eat this:
http://www.cdfeed.com/oink-death.jpg

Anonymous said...

So what's the deal with TooMuchTime? What did he do, other than be an asshat?

Anonymous said...

I'm sad to see the site shutdown for the people that had accounts and played nice in the forums. Personally I had my account deleted several times just because I didn't frequent the site(like 1 time a month because I get busy).
After 3 times of being deleted and then treated like some little kid about it, I decided to say fuck it. I agree, it WAS run by nazi's! I mean, can't even ask for a invite in the forums when you were a member 2 other times before and were only deleted because you didn't hit the site for 1 month? What else do you call that?! I call that bullshit. I even upped alot of music myself!! So I say, boo hoo! But I do think it was a great music site, just wasn't very friendly to casual users(and why can't that be accepted?)

Anonymous said...

I'm sad to see the site shutdown for the people that had accounts and played nice in the forums. Personally I had my account deleted several times just because I didn't frequent the site(like 1 time a month because I get busy).
After 3 times of being deleted and then treated like some little kid about it, I decided to say fuck it. I agree, it WAS run by nazi's! I mean, can't even ask for a invite in the forums when you were a member 2 other times before and were only deleted because you didn't hit the site for 1 month? What else do you call that?! I call that bullshit. I even upped alot of music myself!! So I say, boo hoo! But I do think it was a great music site, just wasn't very friendly to casual users(and why can't that be accepted?)

Anonymous said...

TMT was a bit of a hardass, but he did do a cool thing for me once... Something was fucked up in a few of my torrents and he had deleted them. I corrected the problem, and was going to up them again and remembered how much research I had put into the descriptions for them. I asked him if there were back ups that he could pull the descriptions from and if he could send the descriptions to me. His reply was terse and he made it clear it would never be done for me again... But I did get the descriptions pm'd to me.