The hugely popular invite-only p2p music site OiNK was shut down by British and Dutch police in conjunction with the IFPI after a 2 year on-going investigation. Several data centers in Amsterdam were raided, servers seized and the sites proprietor, a 24 year old IT worker, arrested.

The consequences for the owner as well as the users still unknown. However, since no illegal material was ever hosted directly on Oink, only distributed between users via torrent, they may have a hard time proving that any copyright violation actually took place on Oink servers. Nor do they have logs of the connections and data transfer between users, virtually the only incriminating evidence to take place during torrent transfers.

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