So after what I thought was a clever message to the masses regarding the demise of OiNK turns out to be a subtle hint for a new, member only, invite only bittorrent tracking site. Waffles.fm is, from what I understand, very similar to how OiNK was run, only they were never quite as big [...]
A week ago bittorrent tracking site OiNK was raided by police and shut down, the owner has said that he has done nothing wrong, owns no music illegally himself and didn’t make people pay to access, only accepted donations to keep the site going. With all of this noise, The Pirate Bay is making [...]
Only three days after OiNK was raided and shut down by the police, The Pirate Bay has vowed to bring the OiNK trackers back online. Torrent Freak is reporting,
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during [...]
What may have been one of the largest collections of amazing music and programs in bittorrent format was raided last night and shut down. Mega torrent tracker OiNK, which had a near fight club attitude to advertising and was available to users only on an invite basis, seems to have been shut down for good. [...]
On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio’s royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future. At the request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the CRB ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were [...]
In a recent poll taken by a Toronto based research company, only 40% of Americans think that downloading copyrighted movies is a very serious offense, while more then 60% agree that parking in a fire lane is a very serious offense.
I park in fire lanes; there is no good excuse for it other then convenience. [...]
One of the largest Web 2.0 companies, YouTube.com, has just become more friendly to a devote sect of internet users, Digg-ers. While I personally don’t have an account on YouTube and was admittedly one of the last people to use and embrace it, I find this somewhat intriguing. Ironically, I found this story [...]
Back on January 15th, I wrote about The Pirate Bay attempting to buy Sealand. It appears that they have raised about $20,000 but will not meet the estimated $1 billion to buy the tiny island nation. They have instead moved to Plan B, trying to buy an island and turn it into a [...]