Illegal download site shut down in police raid

[KevinG]

One of the world's biggest websites for pre-release illegal downloads, OiNK, has been shut down by police, and its alleged owner has been arrested.

OiNK was a subscription-based website with over 180,000 members, and made money through users paying voluntary donations.

Cleveland police worked with Interpol in the raid, which culminated in the arrest of a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough - the alleged organiser of OiNK - and the seizure of the website's servers in Amsterdam.

OiNK provided major release albums before their scheduled release dates, which relied on users sharing music with each other using peer-to-peer program BitTorrent.

Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the British Phonographic Industry, said he hoped the authorities would keep applying pressure on illegal downloaders.

Source:
http://web.nme.com/news/tabloid-hell/31992

Eh, I don't really have an opinion on this. I know a lot of people that do illegal downloads. I do not, but I don't want to piss off all my friends by siding with the opponents of illegal downloading.

I did burn a copy of my friend's store bought CD once though.

I also tried pot once, but I didn't inhale.