OiNK shut down, owner arrested... - Democratic Underground

Kazak

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Tue Oct-23-07 07:55 AM
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OiNK shut down, owner arrested...

:cry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7057812.stm

Boohoo, I'm gutted!

(Is there a thread somewhere discussing this already?)

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flvegan

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Tue Oct-23-07 07:59 AM
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1. Oddly enough, the tv-links.co.uk site has been absent for a couple days, too

*grabs tin foil*

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DarkTirade

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Tue Oct-23-07 08:04 AM
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2. No need for tin foil, it was shut down and somebody was arrested

Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 08:09 AM by DarkTirade

despite the fact that they hosted NO content of their own there... it was just, as the name suggests, LINKS.

*edit* article link http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2195407,00.html">here.

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RebelOne

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Tue Oct-23-07 08:08 AM
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3. Darn, I'm going to miss that site.

Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 08:13 AM by RebelOne

I wondered what happened when I couldn't pull it up yesterday.

But fear not, here's another good site.

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/index.php

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DarkTirade

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Tue Oct-23-07 08:13 AM
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4. There are others, just none nearly as good. :(

Not that I watch much TV anyway. Just been catching up on old MASH episodes, and since those were all hosted on stage6.divx.com and that site has been as slow as a sloth with a muscle cramp lately I've had no reason to go there for a while.

Well, that and Heroes, but since NBC hosts that on their own site and lets you watch it legally there's no reason to (arrr) pirate it.

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flvegan

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Tue Oct-23-07 09:13 AM
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5. Aw, dammit!!

I LOVED that site.

Mmmm...cops with nothing better to do.

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supernova

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Tue Oct-23-07 09:15 AM
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6. Yes, the TVlinks guy was arrested too

But most of that content was hosted in Asia.

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VenusRising

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Tue Oct-23-07 09:17 AM
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7. I'm going to miss tv-links.

Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 09:17 AM by VenusRising

That was the best place to see old tv shows.

No more Kindred: The Embraced. :(

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Mojambo

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Tue Oct-23-07 02:29 PM
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8. Wow. I used that place some.

But almost everything I downloaded was off the RIAA radar so I'm cool.

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redqueen

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Tue Oct-23-07 02:34 PM
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9. How long till a remarkably similar site pops up?

Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 02:34 PM by redqueen

What more wonderful way could they use taxpayer dollars than to protect corporate profits. :eyes:

This idiocy isn't as bad as the farcical 'war on drugs', at least... nobody getting killed to download stuff.

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Omphaloskepsis

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Tue Oct-23-07 02:37 PM
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10. Within a week ten people will make similar sites hosted in Sweden.

Oink made money. Lots of people will try to reproduce them.

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