An update for all of you old OiNK users...

[LonghornFan]

Over 2 years of wasted English tax payers money for this-

On 15 January 2010, Alan Ellis was unanimously declared not guilty. If you would like to get in touch with Alan, you can do so here: contact@alanellis.co.uk. The solicitors representing Alan Ellis in the case were Morgan Rose with Alex Stein as the barrister.

http://www.oink.cd/

Suck it. First case where a jury found the owner of a P2P "website" not guilty on all charges, and at that time it was by far the largest of its kind, with people such as Trent Reznor appalled when it was shut down and who praised it's content and the way it was constructed.

Way to go Allen!

[LonghornFan]

OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free
Written by enigmax on January 15, 2010

Lawyers have presented their final arguments in the trial of Alan Ellis. The prosecution slammed the ex-OiNK admin, saying that the site was set up with dishonest and profiteering intentions right from the start. The defense tore into IFPI and countered by calling Ellis an innovator with talents to be nurtured. Ellis was today found not guilty and walked free.

After a very long wait of more than two years, last week the OiNK trial got underway with the prosecution making their case against Alan Ellis. This week it was the turn of the defense and yesterday both sides had the opportunity to summarize their positions by submitting their closing arguments to the jury at Teesside Crown Court.

Peter Makepeace, prosecuting, naturally painted an extremely negative picture, labeling the Pink Palace as a place designed from the ground up as a personal money-making machine for Ellis.

“21 million downloads. 600,000-plus albums. £300,000. This was a cash cow, it was perfectly designed to profit him and it was as dishonest as the day is long,” said Makepeace.

It is common sense to come to the conclusion that Oink was dishonest, claimed the prosecution lawyer, adding that Ellis knows that it’s dishonest “to promote, encourage and facilitate criminal activity,” and accusing him of telling the jury “persistent, cunning, calculated lies.”

Switching momentarily from criticism to praise and then back again, Makepeace said that the OiNK website was a “wonderful machine” for sharing music but noted that while the site had a really good brand name, it was a brand synonymous with “ripping off music.”

University of London professor Birgitte Andersenok gave evidence earlier in the trial, stating that file-sharing didn’t hurt the music industry and led to more sales. Mr Makepeace trashed her evidence.

“It’s nonsense, it’s flannel, it’s verbiage, it’s garbage,” he told the Court.

For the defense, Alex Stein said that Ellis had never knowingly acted dishonestly and that in 2004 when OiNK was launched, it was a “brave new world” on the Internet.

“In many societies he’d be an innovator, a creator, a Richard Branson. His talent would be moulded, not crushed by some sort of media organization,” he said.

The media organization being referred to by Stein was the IFPI, who he said had never requested that OiNK be shut down, and had instead “sat and watched.”

Gazette Live reports that Stein went on to launch a scathing attack on the IFPI.

“They used this site. Their own members used this site to promote their own music and now they’re crushing him. Maybe he grew too big for them, maybe they’ve taken a different marketing approach. I don’t know. But it was decided that this site should be taken down.

“All of us here are being manipulated to some sort of marketing strategy by the IFPI. If anybody’s acting dishonestly it’s them,” he said.

At the end of the two week trial the jury’s unanimous verdict was that Alan Ellis is not guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud the music industry. He walked out of Teesside Crown Court a free man today, his name cleared.

Breaking story…



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[thegary]

awesome

[The_Yoyo]

would these mean oink maybe back up in the future?

[LonghornFan]

Highly doubtful.

BBC is reporting Alan has also received over 11,000 EURO in the last week in donations to help him pay his court costs. People really did love OiNK unlike any other website I've seen.

[oomp]

I'm going to have to break out my oink shirt...

[SWTsig]

oink kicked monumental ass of epic proportions.

[Ziggy]

Man I hope it comes back.

[Lynus302]

Good for him. Oink was so awesome..

[RocketsPimp]

Oink was great and who knows what it could have become. What.cd is the premier music torrent site these days. Waffles is a far distant second.

[Ziggy]

Originally Posted by RocketsPimp Oink was great and who knows what it could have become. What.cd is the premier music torrent site these days. Waffles is a far distant second.

waffles 4 what.cd?

[TreeRollins]

Originally Posted by RocketsPimp Oink was great and who knows what it could have become. What.cd is the premier music torrent site these days. Waffles is a far distant second.

What.CD is definitely better but Waffles has a better country and electronic selection

[LonghornFan]

Waffles also has a MUCH more active and interesting community if you're into the forums. Much more like OiNK.

[Ziggy]

Originally Posted by LonghornFan Waffles also has a MUCH more active and interesting community if you're into the forums. Much more like OiNK.

This is what I thought too. They are good with articles and featured downloads and even that point system. Not sure what what.cd offers, I let that account die after being so disappointed nothing was up to oinks par.

[RocketsPimp]

Originally Posted by LonghornFan Waffles also has a MUCH more active and interesting community if you're into the forums. Much more like OiNK.

I can only handle one forum. Take a guess which one

Originally Posted by Ziggy This is what I thought too. They are good with articles and featured downloads and even that point system. Not sure what what.cd offers, I let that account die after being so disappointed nothing was up to oinks par.

I do like the articles and such. The structure of the site is 100x better IMO. I like that I can search for an artist and see everything easily, by bitrate, etc.

[LonghornFan]

Originally Posted by RocketsPimp I can only handle one forum. Take a guess which one

Slacker. I post on like 10 forums and still manage to get 30 minutes of work done in the office every day.

[Poloshirtbandit]

Originally Posted by Ziggy Man I hope it comes back.

I had finally gotten my ratio above 1.0 when it shut down.

[SwoLy-D]

Every TORRENT site has some sort of tribute for OINK.