Aims to be the community that OiNK’s Pink Palace was, a PRIVATE TRACKER with a great music selection, but will be based in Sweden.
Waffles.fm is a new PRIVATE BitTorrent tracker scheduled for launch at midnight PST tonight. It promises to be based off of the recently shuttered OiNK’s Pink Palace, a loss many music fans like myself are still reeling from.
The name of the site is an obvious reference to the odd message and picture that’s been on OiNK for the last few days. It reads “Waffles – These are the waffles that taste really good according to google.” and points to a Google search query listing OiNK alternatives.
The people behind the site promise that the site will be 100% private, unlike newer alternatives like the new BOiNK project being currently undertaken by The Pirate Bay. As everybody has pointed out, the critical flaw of a public tracker alternative is that it eliminate the compulsion for share ratios and thus makes download times and content selection abysmal. Also, it would allow anti-piracy and law enforcement organizations to have the ability to take an easy peek at who’s sharing what.
From the site:
An open tracker or one without ratio requirements has less selection, less quality (e.g. flac), and less community. There are torrents on The Pirate Bay that have been snatches upwards of ten thousand times, with only a couple of people seeding
This was never the case with OiNK, may it rest in peace, and it will not be the case with waffles.fm.
The only real drawback here is that it’s apparently ALREADY invite only according to the site – “Registration will be invite-only from day one.” How is this possible? Well, they apparently already have recruited 200 initial seeders who pledge to make as much content up and available. From there the MODs will apparently kick it over to a mailing list that they’ve been circulating where ex-OiNK users are able to submit “…VALID proof that they were members at OiNK prior to the incident.”
So what do they mean by “reasonable proof?”
- A screen shot of your Oink Profile, Header, Snatch List etc.
- Screen shots and/or forwards of any emails received from Oink, including but not limited to: your invite email,
- A receipt of your paypal donation (please remove transaction IDs and/or bank account numbers)
- OiNK torrents left on your machine with full urls
“All members will receive a surplus of invites during the beginning of the website,” Waffles.fm continues. “You are highly encouraged and will be rewarded for inviting as many ex-oinker’s as you know of as well as uploading your entire oink torrents collection.”
The people behind the site admittedly recognize that it may be slow going at first, but that that they’re in it for the long haul. They hope to to try and at get as close a clone to the original “Pink Palace” as they possibly can.
“It’s going to be a bit slow at first,” they continue, “but we’re aiming to be the community that OiNK’s Pink Palace was, with the same selection of high quality music.
“There will be special competitions during the beginning to make this process even more rewarding – although the greatest is available to everyone: having the best damn music tracker on the net back!”
It’s too early to tell how this new “OiNK-based tracker” will fare, but it reminds me once again just how much I miss that darn Pink Palace and will certainly give this site a shot. I was skeptical at first about this 200 person viral invite effort, but I’m starting to think it may just be critical to what a healthy OiNK replacement site needs. It comes down to content selection and share-ratios really, and if these initial users make a good effort to satisfy the former, I think the latter will then take care of itself. Some of those pre-release contacts that OiNK had may be vital as well.
Also very, very smart I think is that somebody over there realized that Sweden is the place to be – the safe harbor for all budding BitTorrent pirates. They note that the “For the first month they will be in the Netherlands. After that we will be moving them to Sweden.”
I think we may have at last have the perfect BitTorrent tracker and I’m amazed it hasn’t been done before. I mean a private site based in Sweden? It’s “waffles” alright, tasty and delicious.
Now it’s just time to try and track down an invite.
CHECK OUT WAFFLES.FM
(OR READ THE FAQS)
digg_url = ‘http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9082/Waffles.fm+-+A+PRIVATE%2C+Sweden-Based+BitTorrent+Music+Tracker+Site’;
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Well how the f**k are they going to get any users on the site without sign ups open?
very weird.
Just updated the story…………can submit screenshots of previous OiNK account paypa stubs etc.
This sounds good…
I think the fact that it will be PRIVATE and in SWEDEN is just plain fucking awesome! I mean no more fears of the site getting busted PERIOD! Its amazing that nobody’s done it before.
You ca ask for more details in IRC > #waffles.fm-chat on irc.p2p-network.net – News in #waffles.fm
We’re opening on Wednesday October 31st (Halloween) at midnight PST. You will need an invite to get in. All members will receive a surplus of invites during the beginning of the website.
JUST EXACTLY how the FUCK are you supposed to get an invite? Damn! These people that want you to have an invite from day ONE?
So how are you supposed to get an invite…..the site is not even online and they have no “members” to give you one?
Do you have to know fucking IRC talk just to be able to get an invite? This makes absolutely no sense. It also makes me sick that it will only be available to a few.
You can’t even sign up for crying out loud! That absolutely SUCKS!
@Meyou123
They will dole em out I guess to those who submit “reasonable proof” that they were members of OiNk before it got busted. I’ll tell you what WHEN I get one I’ll hook u up.
Thanks soul. But really there are gonna be a lot of people left out that would have probably signed up that had a large collection. Sad day it seems when torrent sites have become so private that no one can even get in on opening day with sign ups anymore.
Another sign of the times in files sharing I guess. But I absolutely HATE what the RIAA has done to p2p innovation…they have drove a lot of companies underground and out of the states. then if that is not enough private sites have to become so exclusive they can’t afford to take on new members because of the oink busts. Sad day indeed.
@Meyou123
Well they’re trying to keep it somewhat free of spying eyes though Im sure it cant last long. Either way PRIVATE and in SWEDEN? Frickin awesome!
ok i uploaded a torrent on oink before it got shut down and i have a passkey left on my utorrent program is that considered resenable proof to get into waffles and if it is how do i get in do i email them or something and if i do whats the email
very strange
An account would be great… but I am not sure exactly as to how to get in. lol That’s rather unusual. New private trackers usually have at least a 2 day signup period when they pop up. :-
one more
rfbgb….What are you posting about? What does “very strange” and “one more” mean?
Your posts make no sense at all.
Yes this Oink news is really bad for everyone who were the members. I was also a member of Oink and my friends to. I am from Estonia and i do not have eny friends who could give me invite. It is F**KING BIG PROBLEM to us. And we have also quite big collection of music.
Oink was very imprtant to everyone who loved or loves good music.
How I could get invite to Waffles?????
I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed and invite in the absolute worst way. i have over 225 gigs of music from oink was a member for 153 weeks and upped over 2+tb and i cant get any gains as far as an invite. Im no sure how to obtain a screen shot now that the site is down but i still have some torrents that i never erased in my torrent dl list im gueessing they can tell me how to verify i still got user name and pw and where are we spose to send proof of this….this whole process is making me sick the biggest hype on the net that ive heard in some time and I was on vip status on oink so i need to slide in through the velvet ropes any one got the hook up??? share the wealth i will always share back… p[dot]tothe[at]yahoo[dot]com…good looking to all who look out
What about a sight to replace demonoid?
I don’t know what I will do without it….
can I have an invite? I had an account with waffles b4 but forgot my password so I tried to make another account but there’s no where for me to sign up.
Waffles is almost identical to Oink. I was a member with Oink but Waffles is just the perfect snack.
Babyara, you think there’s any chance you can get me an invite or that i can get in without having been in Oink? I have a 60GB music collection and it really needs to grow with lossless. Get back to me.
Wow sounds like a great site… i was never a member of oink but i have a nice size collection of lossless music (135 gigs). any chance of getting an invite from someone?
I was a member of waffles but when I went on vacation and put my account on park, I was kicked off the site when I got home! Oink didn’t kick me out for no reason when they were in business.
what a drag.
i have a .flac 140gb+ collection of nonmainstream alone. i have wanted a waffles.fm invite for months and months and may accept a barter (for what i don’t know yet lol) email me starbeaner at yahoo
hi looking for an invite only really look for underground music. love music and it there to shared let me know would appreciate an invite.
Looks like it has been shut down
no dude. it’s still there. just a new layout
I used to be a member on Oink.Me.UK for just over a year before it was shutdown.
I would appreciate an invite if, possible, to waffles, what.cd or a similar private site.
I only have just over 8000 songs (49.7GB), but most of which is in FLAC or at least 320KB MP3, the majority of which all contain album artwork, CD covers, and lyrics and artist info with a subdir.
All of which are labelled and tagged correctly, well at least the way I prefer.
%Track Number %Artist.FLAC/MP3.
I have a lot of niche, non mainstream, music that I would really like to allow others to discover.
If you are able to spare an invite, please let me know:
jdg8tb [A.T] gmail [D.O.T] [C.O.M]
An a side note it would be better if trackers required you to upload a certain amount (say 5-10GB) and/or donate before you are able to download.
Thanks,
Reework.
I got invites to SceneHD, Funfile, and scenesound if someone can score me into waffles.fm or what.cd
I have Revo, STMusic, What, SavetheCoratee, & brokenstones is anyone could get me into waffles.
darkstar290 (AT) Yah00 dot [com]
I am a member of both Waffles and What.Cd and frankly the content isn’t that great. I have over 400 CD by popular female vocalists that none of those sites have.
You can find almost all of what is on those two sites from free sites or sites that you can register to join. Just look around and google for Cds you want.
I only found three CDs that I wanted that I couldn’t get elsewhere
Try the Japanese “Perfect Dark” for lossless content. Many are excellent rips, but they are in ape format, which is easy to convert to FLAC
hey nick any chance you can spare an invite? I have 65gb of music I would love to share