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OiNK Investigation: Police Start Making Arrests

torrentfreak.com — TorrentFreak has received information which suggests that British police have made good on their claim that they would go after ex-users of OiNK. Last week, several officers arrested at least one individual for the seeding of a single album. It is believed police are in the process of arresting and questioning others.

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  • v666, on 05/30/2008, -7/+104catch me if you can
    • antiorblkflag9, on 05/30/2008, -1/+16I was hoping this day would just loom on the horizon forever.
    • jebzaki, on 05/30/2008, -1/+17......remember how the movie ended?
    • ipodman715, on 05/30/2008, -10/+1lmao @ this getting on the digg frontpage
    • xtraa, on 05/30/2008, -1/+5FBI, CIA - I have six letters for you: WTF. TPB.

      All your base are belong to us.

      We rule, bcause we beat you in quantity, suckers.

  • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 05/30/2008, -8/+120This is absolutely disgusting.
    • mattyice11, on 05/30/2008, -18/+8Why?
      • kaptainKraken, on 05/30/2008, -1/+5because they have no actual proof, on logs on servers that could have been tampered with. in any case it's all circumstantial evidence.

        and if you're able to convict on circumstantial evidence it's a stone throw' away from thought police.

        enjoy your ignorance!
        • mattyice11, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2I don't think you know what circumstantial means. Circumstantial evidence would be seeing mp3s on someone's computer then thinking that they must have been obtained illegally and pressing charges. Server logs are hard evidence - it's suspect to tampering, but it's not circumstantial.
    • sk11, on 05/30/2008, -5/+20It's sickening. WTF are they even being charged with, listening to music without the right to do so? Will they arrest thousands of youtube viewers too?
    • zephyr42, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5Yes it is... but it was only a matter of time before it happened. They arrested the owner and operator as well as all the information, e.g. all IP addresses involved in the tracker. They just have to keep an eye on those and bam when they get a torrent, easy targets.
    • Myonosken, on 05/30/2008, -8/+3Why is being prosecuted for downloading someones' work when you do not have permission to do so disgusting? I don't advocate the current record industry model that screws over artists, but the artists who want their albums downloaded freely are still a very tiny minority. It's a crime whatever way you look at it. If you don't agree with a law, you protest it and work to change it, but break it whilst its in place and don't be surprised when you get ***** over.
      • kaptainKraken, on 05/30/2008, -1/+1rebellion happens outside parliament walls.
        • Myonosken, on 05/30/2008, -1/+1Yes it does and you get punished for it. I never said it was right but it's not 'disgusting'. Lets be honest, most of these people just wanted a free album rather than fought for a noble cause.
      • triplehelix, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1your not very familiar with that ghandi guy and his who peaceful disobedience thing eh?
      • Myonosken, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1How dare you compare yourself to Ghandi for downloading an album.
    • eigenweasel, on 05/30/2008, -0/+15Especially when one considers that the police in the UK no longer investigate house burglaries and thefts from cars due to 'manpower constraints'.
      Yet it seems they have plenty manpower to persecute internet users and motorists. And its our taxes they do it with...
  • bballbackus, on 05/30/2008, -11/+184For seeding one album? What the *****? I'm all for piracy but whats the point of going for people with one album where there were people with terabytes uploaded? Meh, anyway, initiate ***** THE sequence,

    ***** THE RIAA
    ***** THE MPAA
    ***** THE CRIA
    ***** BREIN
    ***** THE BSA
    ***** MediaDefender!
    ***** THE IFPI!

    • iRelinquish, on 05/30/2008, -14/+9Boy Scouts of America?
    • cooljon37, on 05/30/2008, -12/+0huh? do you even know how bittorrent works?
    • antiorblkflag9, on 05/30/2008, -17/+3Kill a cop
      The CIA
      The FBI
      The PTA
      The NFL
      The MRC
      Let's kill you and let's kill me
    • sparql, on 05/30/2008, -2/+38you go after the guys with one album seeding so when it makes the news it scares people. If they only went after people who have seeded 100+ albums, most people will feel that it can't happen to them.
      • dafragsta, on 05/30/2008, -0/+15Don't know why you are getting buried. It's the truth. They are trying to make an example out of someone. It's not a new tactic.
      • wexmajor, on 05/30/2008, -1/+9It disgusts me that you're right. They did this specifically to intimidate the populace. Why do we tolerate this?
      • obliviousfool, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3So the solution *is* to upload a few terabytes?
    • P8ntBal1551, on 05/30/2008, -8/+10if you live in canada

      ***** STEPHAN HARPER
      ***** CONSERVATIVES
      ***** THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
    • nullx42, on 05/30/2008, -1/+3You forgot "***** you frank"
    • emmanuelsotelo, on 05/30/2008, -0/+12You forgot the DMCA.
    • Myonosken, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4This is the UK so few of those, if any, are relevant here.
    • crapmatic, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1Ah well, what the hell.

      ***** ALL Y'ALL!
    • bbliss17, on 05/31/2008, -2/+1http://www.ziddu.com/downloadalbum.php?auid=a66fm5 ...

      Disturbed new album Complete!!
  • iRelinquish, on 05/30/2008, -7/+18Long live the Hydra!
    • duckyinc, on 05/30/2008, -2/+3Yeah you can't kill a hydra (you can) you kill it's food >:D
  • windmillninja, on 05/30/2008, -3/+45A "car full of police"? Seriously? It's like every time I watch the annual parade in my tiny hometown where seemingly EVERY fire truck in town comes down the main drag, and I think to myself, "Meanwhile, somebody just left their stove on."
    • BorsKaegel, on 05/30/2008, -1/+13Somehow when I imagine the "car full of police," I can only imagine the weasels in the Toon Patrol cop car from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"...
      • dafragsta, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8Real life is a lot like Roger Rabbit in that respect. I'm not even joking. We live in a police planet now. It's all about gestapo tactics and setting examples.
        • darkamster07, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2well if that includes Jessica Rabbit it can't be all bad...
        • iJessicaRabbit, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1amen ;)
      • doshindude, on 05/30/2008, -1/+2or a car stuffed full of clowns.
    • ciano, on 05/30/2008, -1/+10I was riding my bike through a golf course one day, and when I hopped the gate to get out (it took me a while to get my bike over there) I was greeted by not one, but two cop cars. TWO cop cars. For trespassing on a golf course.
      • bownasterm, on 05/30/2008, -11/+3So what?
        The cops can greet you with however many cars they want you should stop whining and quit breaking the law LOL
      • herrferret, on 05/30/2008, -1/+3Actually, you will discover that most golf courses have legal rights of way across them. Of course most golf course owners don't advertise the fact but I enjoy watching 100s of rambers heading cross country across a golf course after a lone rambler has been harrased. Ciano. Keep riding those bikes across golf courses, its an outrage that large swathes of often public land is given to a privilaged few while the council can't find the land to build a simple park or cycle path. Buy a GPS and an old map. You will be surprised about the legal rights of way that pop up :D
  • zombird, on 05/30/2008, -4/+155Glad to see with all the stabbings and beatings the British police have their priorities in order.
    • dorkino, on 05/30/2008, -3/+16Follow the money.
    • aliguana, on 05/30/2008, -2/+20because the Police aren't scared to bust into some teenagers house in riot gear to get the perp for the heinous crime of piracy. An arrest is an arrest, makes the stats look good.

      They ARE terrified of approaching a bunch of hoodies on a street corner though. They might have knives! Guns! We might get hurt! Or we might hurt THEM, and then they'll sue us for compensation! eek... don't even go there.

      Stick with the music junkies, and while we have their confiscated PC back at the office we can make copies of their prOn. Win/Win.
    • Genma, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1leo is getting something out of it, simple. there's no two ways about it, if not there would be no reason for them to get involved with something like this. I'm just curious of what the ifpi threw in their trough.
  • musicforus, on 05/30/2008, -14/+40I love TorrentFreak and all, but where is the proof this happened? "According to information obtained by TorrentFreak?" Gonna need to know more first.
    • mockupscaledown, on 05/30/2008, -0/+22I don't see why you're getting dugg down for saying this. There article is peppered with "allegedly" and "information suggests," and cites no sources. It's an article, but it's definitely not journalism, and I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out that distinction.
      • bot001220, on 05/30/2008, -6/+3HAY GUISE!!! let's give away our sources to confidential information so we can get them in trouble!!!

        Stories like this usually get follow-ups (ie: confirmation from police, media, etc.) so that the informants aren't compromised.
        • mockupscaledown, on 05/30/2008, -1/+5I see what you're saying, but I don't think the point is that they should compromise informants, it's that you should take stories like these with a grain of salt until those follow-up sources can confirm.
        • Myonosken, on 05/30/2008, -3/+4Informants?? This isn't a ***** confidential issue, you're free to tell the press about it. The only ones would be the police involved who couldn't- but don't you think they could perhaps just ask the families involved for a second citation and just use that one?
        • saisumimen, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1First of all, we're talking about Torrentfreak here, not "The New York Times". Only a fool would take anything there as fact.

          That being said however, the OP complained that the article "cites no sources". If there is someone close to the investigation that knows about this before it is made public, then his identity should remain secret. He shouldn't be outed as the "source" just to satisfy you.
    • godofpumpkins, on 05/30/2008, -2/+11yeah, wikipedia calls those weasel words (or something like that) I believe.
  • vfreak2, on 05/30/2008, -5/+42We need Demonoid, the next best place for music sharing, to do what TPB does and keep NO logs of user data! To not at least be a little bit concerned as a result of this, is STUPID, *not* fearless, and when you can easily help to protect your users, just do it. PLEASE demonoid, do this!
    • helikopter, on 05/30/2008, -1/+18decent idea, but demonoid is definitely not the next best place for music sharing...
      • arcticblue, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Maybe not the best, but it's good. Plenty of Flac stuff on there. I just got Smashing Pumpkin's Machina II in Flac from there (the audio quality of the whole album sucks, but it was good to find it).
    • RAEP, on 05/30/2008, -5/+8Yeah I'd say Waffles.fm.
      • arcticblue, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1I'd love to get a Waffles.fm invite. I got bitsoup, supertorrents, and demonoid invites...
    • vfreak2, on 05/30/2008, -2/+5Oh yeah, apart from waffles/what.cd...apart from those two, I haven't known of a better tracker for lots of quality well-seeded music uploads, (enlighten me if there is...:wink:)
      • MrTulip, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4i hereby declare you enlightened
      • bot001220, on 05/30/2008, -1/+2You want enlightenment? Follow the "BluE" road and that will lead you to the "Magick" music castle ;p
  • EpicSelekta, on 05/30/2008, -12/+103There is a certain irony that the cops are investigating a group with the name of OiNK.

    (Pigs investigating pigs)
    • Xyleene, on 05/30/2008, -3/+50I was going to digg you up until you figured you were being so clever that you had to explain it to us :-)
    • NuclearFalcon, on 05/30/2008, -8/+2It's a coincidence, not irony.
      • pardonmedoug, on 05/30/2008, -1/+6Coincidences can be ironic. This one is.
      • EdwardsNH, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Or perhaps, if you are on the side of the police, you could call it poetic justice.
  • leerayIG88, on 05/30/2008, -2/+14Too bad they can't catch me. I live in a cave.
    • mywhitenoise, on 05/30/2008, -9/+1Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? Don't you know, since you're online they can pinpoint your exact location? You just screwed yourself.
      • antiorblkflag9, on 05/30/2008, -1/+1How have you been using OiNK from a cave?
      • kaptainKraken, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1well yes and no, they can to a certain extent. like any technology there's a way around it.
      • darkamster07, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1searching for someones location via IP will only give you a general location, it's pretty much useless unless they get your info from your ISP, and you would have to be doing pretty serious stuff for that to happen
    • dafragsta, on 05/30/2008, -0/+14We've found Osama! He is really into the Beach Boys fro some reason.
    • Dragular, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1You wouldn't happen to be the leader of a doomsday cult as well, would you?
    • darkamster07, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1Tony Stark? is that you!?
  • rufus12, on 05/30/2008, -21/+4WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
  • wexmajor, on 05/30/2008, -5/+11Enlightened Europe.
    • vfreak2, on 05/30/2008, -2/+3that was 300 years ago, we've progressed since then.
  • Mikhail101, on 05/30/2008, -2/+16Hmm... spending time, resources and manpower hunting people who upload 1s and 0s is better than protecting people from rapers, pedophiles and murderers

    kinda beats: To serve and PROTECT!
    • Skooma714, on 05/30/2008, -1/+1Police are there to protect the elite and the government primarily, and they'll steal what they can on the side.

      We're just along for the ride.
    • irgeorge, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3Well in fairness, to serve and protect isn't the British police motto...
    • darkamster07, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1"rapers, pedophiles and murderers" actually only make up a miniscule amount of the population; cops should be going after organized crime and murder on a large scale, gangs etc. maybe some day they will go after the big dogs: those that are corrupt in government, but I'm not holding my breath
  • itsgotyou, on 05/30/2008, -7/+38Pigs investigating OiNK. You gotta love that.
  • foolishwolf, on 05/30/2008, -4/+16Well I'm *****!
    • thelock65, on 05/30/2008, -2/+1As am I.
      And now I've been using Demonoid, hopefully they don't after these users too. (I couldn't get an invite to waffles)
      • ZigVicious, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3demonoid sucks since it came back online, they took away all ratio requirements and now it's almost as bad as TPB.
        • foolishwolf, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1I'll second that. It's leecher paradise over there now. Wish I got an invite to waffles.
  • JK1150, on 05/30/2008, -4/+17these cops are used to saying "oink"
  • gavin422, on 05/30/2008, -2/+9Well *****.
  • iamnotbill, on 05/30/2008, -1/+11Oh No, Oinkers! The Wolf is at the door!

    Call the Ax man!

  • Elliottx, on 05/30/2008, -10/+5Darn pigs. -_-..

    /punned.
    • ortucis, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Yeah, like 10 times already.
      • Elliottx, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1I only read my own comments.... xD I'm very self absorbed..and thank you, I do look pretty....I know ^-^
  • Gioleb, on 05/30/2008, -10/+10...***** pigs.
    • JovensHomie, on 05/30/2008, -0/+9... sounds like a fun idea at first but has its drawbacks...
    • Tickitata, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5dugg Gioleb so more people will see Jovens comment.
  • zephyear, on 05/30/2008, -2/+31UK gets closer to a police state everyday
    • jjpertusch, on 05/30/2008, -8/+6what? what these people did was illegal.

      i mean, i'm like any other person here and i'd be peeing myself if they arrested me for this, but i cant exactly blame anyone other than myself.
      • aliguana, on 05/30/2008, -0/+15uploading music doesn't warrant a van full of plod in riot-gear battering down your door at sunrise and stealing... erm... confiscating your hardware. It's one step away from thought-crime and "black bag over the head while they take you off to camp for processing".

        If the copyright holder has a problem with someone sharing their music, it's up to them to get the evidence, and pursue the matter in a civil court. Police should NEVER get involved in these cases. Different if someone is running a CD duplication setup from their garage, as they are making money from black-market sales and generally ripping people off. Seeding a torrent isn't the same thing. At all.
    • darkamster07, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1closer?
  • kraft123, on 05/30/2008, -1/+11The police is not the problem! Who is behind the laws?
    • vfreak2, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4People who don't understand technology and progress. Luckily they're slowly dying out and being replaced by, eventually, our generation.

      • EdwardsNH, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Until you get old enough to have to earn a living. Then you'll get pissed, and even desperate that you're not getting paid for work you're doing. Next, you'll start trying to get the authorities to go after the people stealing from you.

        Yes, I understand the RIAA are a huge bunch of crooks themselves, and that they rob the artist blind, but if not for stealing "their" money, you'd be taking it right from the artist.

        Not that I never downloaded anything, but at least I know it's wrong, despite any rationalizations I may have made at the time.
  • hazard, on 05/30/2008, -2/+9Its so much easier to track down and do all your research on who youre going to arrest from a nice air conditioned room than it is to be on the streets asking questions and running after actual physically dangerous criminals. Someone just robbed the bank and murdered all the employees and we need to chase them? Let's just throw a dart at the IP address board and get them instead.
  • xsquirrel378x, on 05/30/2008, -4/+3someone should contact the BPI and ask for an invite
  • keithnoir, on 05/30/2008, -3/+36Now doesn't that make you feel better?
    The pigs have won tonight
    Now they can all sleep soundly
    And everything is all right
  • pitdog, on 05/30/2008, -6/+13UK is going down the drain with all the absurdity of the last couple of years...
    Wake up folk of England! Take heed of some sense from Jeremy Clarkson and his mates.
    • cliffski, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2if you think clarkson isnt a tool, you need mental help
  • Lerferz, on 05/30/2008, -3/+6I dont see them citing any sources, fake probably. hopefully?
  • edjenkins234, on 05/30/2008, -8/+1Now Im really glad I never had to beg anyone for an oink invite :)
  • dorkino, on 05/30/2008, -3/+3I imagine they are doing this to strengthen their case against the OiNK admins. They've got a pretty good chance of getting confessions and evidence out of the average user whom they can easily intimidate.

    They surely aren't interested in locking up every single person who ever used the service. They just need a small group of intimidated users to provide them what they need for their case in exchange for reduced or dropped charges.
    • DomZy, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3What are they going to say?
      "Yes, mr oink the admin of oink was illegalz! please don't arrest me!"
      If anyone was even arrested (I'm skeptical anyone has been), it was probably the police trying to use scare tactics.
  • bushout, on 05/30/2008, -3/+11This is what pisses me off, they talk about what's "fair" and "right", but when it comes down to it, the system couldn't give a ***** about you and I, it's always down to big money interest groups. Let's put more police resources into kids swapping music than stopping kids getting abused (look at how many cops work stopping child porn on the internet, it's sickening low).

    We're pushed, pulled, trodden on and bullied by the system at every turn, and *****, you better not have found a way to get one up, because we'll have you for that too.
    • RAEP, on 05/30/2008, -3/+2And they still expect us to pay them for their overproduced *****.
      • Frostek, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6If it's *****, why are people bothering to download it? :-)
        (Devil's Advocate)
        • Chakat, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5Because they're addicts. Desperately trying to tap the vein for their fix because they're too afraid to go without.
    • darkamster07, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1I agree, but I don't want cops on my instanet for any reason, including child porn, I know it's wrong, but where cops could go with it is worse.
  • bottlesandcans, on 05/30/2008, -4/+1I bet it was the White Album.
  • neboneiyes, on 05/30/2008, -9/+9With growing knife and yob culture making it unsafe for people to walk the streets, i am very upset police resources are being used in the way, priorites are obviously misplaced.












    • Tyr7BE, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1yob?
    • Tickitata, on 05/30/2008, -0/+9Lotsa space there, m'boy!
    • Skooma714, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2Music companies have lots of money.

      You don't. Guess who gets the police wrapped about their little finger?
    • cliffski, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1obey the ***** law then.
  • gavin422, on 05/30/2008, -1/+65Update - apparently this is a rumor started by OiNK himself. No joke.

    Via waffles.fm forums:

    May 25 20:49:45  oink starts off rumours
    May 25 20:49:54 [oink] apparently an uploader from oink was arrested.

    May 25 20:53:55 [riomhaire] successful rumour has started
    May 25 20:54:09 [azk] bumhair you ass
    May 25 20:54:26 [riomhaire] let's see how far this goes
    May 25 20:54:44  riomhaire emails torrentfreak

    May 25 21:17:39 [riomhaire] http://pastebin.ca/1029182
    May 25 21:17:40 [riomhaire] :O

    (replaced IRC < brackets with standard brackets because Digg thought they were HTML)
    • BrokenBrick, on 05/30/2008, -0/+22Yay for OiNK, and also Trent Reznor. Boo to Digg for scaring me a little bit for a minute.
    • TimmyGUNZ, on 05/30/2008, -1/+10This is a comment from Torrent Freak:

      " The rumor started AFTER we got the info. The information posted in the article is confirmed and 100% correct. Arrests have been made. Several sources confirmed this, we got detailed information from one of the persons involved (which we can’t post at this time), and solicitors we contacted.

      We will probably post an update with more info soon, for the people who remain skeptical."
    • zdiddy85, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2I think Torrent Freak is just bored and needed something to bring in some hits.
  • Winston84, on 05/30/2008, -6/+5Long live Ingsoc
  • robbob, on 05/30/2008, -2/+5FTA: "As usual, there are more questions than answers."

    We learned nothing from this article
  • duckyinc, on 05/30/2008, -5/+2One person got arrested.. ooh god you guys are acting up. Most of you never had a Oink account anyway!
  • MillionsLivio, on 05/30/2008, -4/+9March of the Pigs...
  • juniorb, on 05/30/2008, -0/+9I had an OiNK account, and seeing the word OiNK in the headline got me a little choked up for a minute. I think I've been blocking its non-existence from my memory to deal with the trauma.

    Still was, and always will be, the model for a community music-sharing site – legal or illegal.
    • iJessicaRabbit, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1I couldn't agree more :) Same thing happened to me when I saw the beautiful "OiNK" in the headline. I'm on what.cd right now, but it's just not the same :-/
  • nydwarf, on 05/30/2008, -2/+1What are they gonna do when everyone's in jail?
  • DestroyFascism, on 05/30/2008, -0/+13True or not, it should remind server admins to hash the user data, all of it.
  • dubey, on 05/30/2008, -9/+5GOOD LUCK. I'M BEHIND 7 PROXIES.
  • MnMs, on 05/30/2008, -5/+4I'm not saying these laws are justified, but they are laws. Alot of diggers dislike illegal immigration on the principle that it's illegal and against the law, but once the subject is about illegally downloading copyrighted materials the law can go ***** itself. The government isn't out to get you, there will be no police state, and Ron Paul sucks ass.

    THEYTKRJARBS
  • MikeFallopian, on 05/30/2008, -8/+1***** owning the property that you create.
    • 15charmaxwtf, on 05/30/2008, -1/+1That argument only stands up against tangible property. If someone reads a book does the author own part of the readers brain? No, that is bat ***** crazy, but that is where the logic goes.

      Though, if I make a bench out of a tree in the wilderness that no one has claimed yet, I have put some labour into it and the only way someone else can get it is to take it away from me. Someone might look at it and get the idea for the design, but if they take it from me that is called stealing. Of course the IP (Imaginary Property) people would think that looking at it and taking the design to make their own would also be stealing... Likely they are just trying to justify using the power of the state to artificially increase their income, at the expense of others.
      • mohsenxp, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1Well the 'IP' people would be 100% right in thinking that...if you patented the idea and design.
        With music and digital media this is done by copyright.
        To have the legal right to listen to the song (as in own it), you must pay for a license. This is in effect what you are doing when you pay to 'buy' the song. (its the license you are buying, not the song itself).
        You are then legally binded by the clauses of the license that you have paid for, and the contract that you have entered.
        If that license prohibits you from distributing the song without permission, then you are liable for breach of contract.
        Interestingly such a matter will be handled under civil law and not criminal (unless however the breach was criminal in nature -> selling for profit etc.) so the police would not interfere.
      • cliffski, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1***** off to north korea.
  • ChillyEli, on 05/30/2008, -7/+6My wireless is open. Anyone can use it. I'm sorry if you traced an IP address here. My router borrowed that one. I in fact did not download or upload that album. Are you going to charge me for providing free internet access to friends and family? Bring it then. Sure you can terminate my account due to this line being used for illegal activity but nowhere in the rules does it say "If you own a wireless network you may not provide the access to others and in doing so are responsible for their usage".

    Sue D-Link. They made the router that allowed that activity to happen!
    • Paii, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you're responsible for all activity through your connection.
  • DroppedGT, on 05/30/2008, -3/+1Pig on pig crimes
  • Skooma714, on 05/30/2008, -1/+3Protectionism is a beautiful thing.

    Meanwhile isn't there that serial rapist in Sussex or summat? Meh, he isn't important.
  • mohsenxp, on 05/30/2008, -1/+2hmm I'll choose not to believe this story. No sources cited and police would never raid a house for an individual file sharer.

    Anyway I'm still scared coz I was a big uploader on Oink! *thinks about the time he uploaded the Dave Matthews Band discography...*
  • coheedcollapse, on 05/30/2008, -1/+4Wasn't Trent Reznor a member? I wonder what's going to come about from that.
  • ico2ico2, on 05/30/2008, -2/+7THIS IS A HOAX
    it was started by a couple of guys in IRC having a laugh.

    ignore it.
    • AppleGeorge, on 05/30/2008, -3/+2No, that rumor started AFTER arrests were already made. All they did is make it go further.
      • justinxxvii, on 05/31/2008, -0/+0Did you visit the link to the cleveland police page? There's no mention of it on that site anywhere.

        I'm saying hoax until there's official word. TF might not be the most reliable source
  • xtraa, on 05/30/2008, -3/+1that sucks.
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