What to use instead of Oink? Brokep from The Pirate Bay lays down a nice list of music related BitTorrent tracker sites to use while the dust settles from the recent closure of the once great "Pink Palace" known as OiNK.Last week were trying times for music fans in the BitTorrent community after a two-year investigation by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) resulted in the arrest of OiNK's admin and the seizure of the site's servers. Around since the earliest days of BitTorrent, OiNK stood long after sites like LokiTorrent, EliteTorrents, and others fell by the way side after being targeted by law enforcement. It was home tens of thousands of music fans who could always count on finding a long sought after album or something new to get the pulse going. It was truly an audiophile's paradise. There is some shed of hope in all this though with news that the world's most famous pirates - The Pirate Bay - are working on an OiNK replacement site to be called called BOiNK. The big difference between the two will also be that the site will unfortunately be public, which will mean that anybody can come along, connect to a tracker and take a look at user IP addresses with minimal effort, making pre-release albums to hot to handle. Plus without requisite share-ratio enforcement there will obviously be no incentive to share and will undoubtedly mean that content selection and download speeds will not even come close to OiNK. What private BitTorrent tracker site do you know of that enforced share-ratios with more zeal than did they? News of the BOiNK project comes after initially dismissing the notion out of hand, and rightfully so, because thanks to antiquated copyright laws geared for an analog rather than digital age he and his Swedish compatriots have had to pick up the rest of the world's slack. He writes: Many people have called me today and asked for comments already. I have lots of e-mail in my inbox about this from journalists that wants my response to it. And most of the e-mails that I’ve got today actually wonder if TPB is going to open a replacement site for Oink.What it looks like right now? No. I would love for someone else to please do this work this time. Basing everything around one single group that has too much to do already is not good. I’ve talked about the internet as a hydra before, and I do urge people again - start up your own sites. Make lots of them. If there was 100 sites like Oink, none of them would be a so big and easy target as Oink was today. The most important thing for survival is to spread.He makes a good point in that it's just not fair to have them always be the go-to guys whenever a BitTorrent tracker site's taken down. For the health of the BitTorrent community to be maintained they need to be spread over a variety of countries and different locations. In any event, until the dust settles from the whole OiNK affair I have reprinted a list of music oriented BitTorrent tracker sites for you to check out and enjoy. None of them will be compare to OiNK of course, but just like a bad break up it's time to move on. Interestingly enough the OiNK site now links to a similar Google search query under the title "Waffles - These are the waffles that taste really good according to google." Brokep continues with the waffle crazy in his blog post, writing "Waffleswaffleswaffles and jam! Wondering about all the waffle talk? So do we. But piracy is waffles of the 21st century." I'm not sure what the waffle talk is all about, but I do know it's making me hungry. And speaking of hunger, here's the list of OiNK alternatives. audionews.ru (Music production) Looking for more stuff to watch or download?
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So... what is "keeping them secret" which they clearly are NOT... going to accomplish?
i cant see anything wrong in posting the sites, and why would it be?
they are sites on the net, wich anyone can come by in other ways, told by someone else.
a funny thing is, as in sweden where i am, when a law is made, they never replace it, becas it would take too long for it to disapear, its a very complicated process, but makeing laws is like cooking 3 minute pasta (or not but you hopefully get my point)
it is regulated to fit the people with power to let them have even more power.
i never heard about a peoples vote about dismiss a law thats too old to implement, but makeing laws is fine.
and if the "leaders" dont like the result in a vote, like a new law for something, and the people doesnt like it, they make a new vote in a couple of years, and continues untill the law is accepted, but whn its accepted, do we ever hear about a vote if we want to keep it?
my point is;
let the people decide wether free information exchange should be allowed or not instead of letting some guys decideing everything for you, thats not democracy imo.
I am not a politicaly interested person, but i would vote if something thats relevant to me comes up.