Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raids

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Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raids

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Considered one of the world's largest illegal sources of prerelease music, members-only service was focus of a two-year investigation.

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propaganda
by allwrong October 23, 2007 9:57 AM PDT: Oink was NOT a pre-release site it was a FREE site by invite only for sharing music and ebooks. The article above stinks of propaganda.; Reply to this comment View reply
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the pirate bay
by krosavcheg October 23, 2007 10:15 AM PDT: "A raid in Sweden last year shut down an Internet site that police said was a major source of music and film piracy."

so, TPB: http://thepiratebay.org/ is still down? that's big news.; Reply to this comment

Meh
by skeff22 October 23, 2007 10:24 AM PDT: I'll start becoming concerned when musicians are getting paid the amount that is more practical. Some bands are a joke and need to be weeded out. If a method like this makes that happen, I'm for it. Perhaps expanding your tour beyond the US may help out with your fan base.
You never hear about these industries employees getting flack for this... just the people they give it to.
Two years to take down one site... a waste of expenses by police and a waste of extreme influence the recording labels gave them.; Reply to this comment View reply
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What else do you expect from the MAFIAA?
by Proustian October 24, 2007 8:00 PM PDT: They will use fascism to close down any BitTorrent site they don't like. Even if those BitTorrent sites only contain the torrent files and the real files aren't even stored on the BitTorrent web sites.; Reply to this comment

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