Here is a thing about Saul Williams and Trent Reznor teaming up to make crazy shit.
Trent Reznor says he had an oink account. He also says he spent over $5000 on the Radiohead album (In Rainbows), and mentions his intentions to release an album the same way.
He utters zero bullshit in relation to the crazy horrors hidden behind oink’s fabled ewalls.
I’ve always thought the hydra was good torrent metaphor. It’s come up a lot lately.
No one is going to believe this, but I’m being completely honest here, have never committed plagiarism, and take pride in having an occasion original idea per decade. This was one I had early tonight at work, around 7pm:
When I got home, I about double-shit my pants when I saw this eerily similar image on that one site!:
I still can’t believe it. I mean, it’s not the most creative idea I’ve ever had, and I’ll admit to it being a little easy, but god damn. Here’s a detail of mine:
Some interesting things in common or different include mine having one less head, mine only having one pair of headphones all emosmashed on the ground, mine having a huge demon tri-spiked tail, and I can draw cloven hooves. Mine also has no little Dutch flying avenger, but instead has an inactive user.
This is an amazing coincidence, sort of. That other guy’s image (I think) came first, but I’d never seen it, so I’d rate this probably mildly weird.
The domain oink.cd is now back in the hands of its owner (it had been hijacked earlier this week by the super-riaa and vandalized), and while the tracker is gone, something interesting is in its place.
What’s going on here? The oink site now links to a google search most likely intended to help you find this page, which links to a huge variety of torrent sites. I’m ok with the terminology “hydra” when applied to torrents.
He even changed the secret shady-as-hell note page, which made the ominous-yet-vaguely written propaganda threat page seem fake. Before it was changed, it was a note from the super-riaa (IFPI + BPI) to the police saying thanks for the help, and had the exact text for the threatening front page in its entirety. How official does that sound? Hopefully I won’t be picked up for plagiarizing this text, which was on the front page after being taken from here:
Pedro,Many thanks for your assistance with this. Please find attached two logos for IFPI & BPI together with text to be displayed on a new homepage on the ‘Oink’ website. Can the logos be added to the page:
This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into suspected illegal music distribution.
A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users
Many thanks
Keith
The site was hijacked, literally. This organization had no authority to access or use the domain. Essentially, they pulled exactly the same trick that hacker kids do to sites they vandalize. Hijacking website is generally considered illegal.
This story just gets more weird and twisted as the days pass, but it seems like more sources are becoming respectable in reference to the whole mess.
Here is the best waffle recipe ever (yes, metric; fuck off):
Mix wet crap and dry crap together, let it sit for a half hour, then cook in an iron or whatever. Best waffles ever. Seriously.
Talk of new oink replacement sites has thickened to culmination and The Pirate Bay, the Swedish-based public tracker thought to be the biggest in the world, has announced its plans to provide a replacement site with hopes that oink users will fill in all the details and make it right.
There are problems with the Bay’s plan was wrapped up in a single comment from Anonymous:
It wont be OiNK. There will just be hoards of transcoded, non-seeded, mislabled, shit uploaded. This is why OiNK existed, as a reliable source of good quality music, which ‘BOiNK’ won’t be.
It’s true. No matter the level of care taken for the Bay to claim this niche, what is most likely going to end up happening is a “haven” for music that is just like any other public tracker…i.e. crap. What set oink apart was high quality, and a tracker where anyone could upload anything doesn’t have the infrastructure to maintain the same level of quality.
Who knows? The Bay could moderate it for real, and make a genuine attempt at maintaining the standards, but it’s not likely. They are more about the message than the method. It has its place, but it’s not what oink users seem to be seeking; for them, it is about quality and even community.
Scams and misinformation continue, in case you were wondering. There appears to be one source of super-reliable information, and elsewhere is going to be hearsay.
The internet isn’t as fast as people think in some departments, and one of those departments is getting over the 192kbps hump. Many folks do not even know of the v0 “standard,” and have never heard of flac, either. And to think some people take blu-ray seriously.
Bittorrent is a bigger idea than a country or a law. It is decentralization manifest, which is a concept that backfires when the topic of restrictions and private community comes up. In fact, they appear mutually exclusive. What will happen?
Lots of the same ideas coming up here are coming here. Read it.
Dear real world,
You don’t understand. If you think there won’t be (or already isn’t) another site within a week, you don’t understand. All that has been removed from the situation is a single website that connects people. They don’t even know each other. The internet itself is the enemy here. It’s too big to be controlled, and is demanding you rethink the way you do many things. For example, I’ve become a bit of a skeptic, thanks in part to the internet. To further this example, let’s examine the situation skeptically.
DJ Rupture’s sensible take on it.
The current entertainment industry is angry. It’s mad that you damned kids outran it. It’s mad that it can’t control you anymore. It’s mad that the pocket padding (which has not even remotely slowed) doesn’t appear as threatened as it prefers. It’s mad that the enemy isn’t so easy to bully as the damned kids.
A Cleveland Police spokesman said: “This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up. Membership was by invitation only.”
Anyone that calls something torrent-related a scheme, and suggests that profit is involved, has no idea what they’re saying. Calling it a “pre-release” site is false propaganda as well. Even respectable news sources are regurgitating the same horseshit. Why lie about it if the law has been so blatantly violated?
“…was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”
What’s the difference in 2007? If you think that question is a joke, you’ve missed most of my point so far.
Almost every major news article I can find inaccurately describes not only the significance and frequency of early releases, but also the invitation structure, and often even the concepts behind how torrents work. They want everyone to think it was a profitable scheme; it wasn’t. They want everyone to think it was a malicious cult; it wasn’t. In other words, in brief, don’t believe what you’re hearing.
The law is the law…however, it still has yet to be broken. I’d explain this, but if you don’t believe me, you aren’t to be convinced anyway.
They used to have these things in the world called revolutions. A huge mob of people would get together with farm tools and take back their land. These damned kids don’t feel entitled; they just know the system is outdated bullshit. And now, all they’ve lost is a significant number of .torrent files. That’s all. They could literally turn around right this second and put the data on another torrent site, and when that site is down tomorrow, another will replace it, ad infinitum.
I like to call this the internet effect.
Please stop comparing this to Napster! Terrorism! Juxtaposition! Just want that in there for searches. And please, everyone, be a little more responsible and do some fucking reading before you lump another piece of shit on the media monolith. Keep sharing and thank you for listening. (even more links!)
It is improper to use “you” to address an audience.
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