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Oink taken down
amok:
--- Quote from: stale on 24 Oct 2007, 12:00 ---Look at this
http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/
Moderator blog
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This site is great. Although I fear for the various other options (most succinctly listed by the new guy trollin' for invites to all of them) whose names are being sprayed all over every public blog and forum post about OiNK. Some of them have servers in even less secure countries.
tacroy:
--- Quote from: Amok ---This site is great. Although I fear for the various other options (most succinctly listed by the new guy trollin' for invites to all of them) whose names are being sprayed all over every public blog and forum post about OiNK. Some of them have servers in even less secure countries.
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Eh...lots of people have been waving around the idea of security in obscurity, and I think this is more about people getting to sound like characters from Fight Club than it is a reasonable defense from legal action. The idea that anything is truly hidden on the internet should have been debunked long ago. That said, my understanding is that Indietorrents hosts only non-RIAA recordings, hopefully keeping them off the radar of the biggest threat.
What I find interesting about all this is watching the support groups, memorial blogs, tribute videos, and the like crop up all over the place. There seems to be such a clamor to find OiNK's replacement I'm tempted to call it an e-diaspora, as ridiculously nerdy as that is.
I've left OiNK's homepage on my hotbar and click back there instinctively every so often. For me, the saddest part is seeing the nice, cheerful pink replaced by that soul-crushing gray.
E. Spaceman:
OinK was really just such a superior tracker, sure i can get most stuff elsewhere, but it won't be as neatly organised and all in one place. OinK was really the place to go when i wanted an underground Italo Disco compilation or something like that.
Joseph:
I guess I'd care a lot more if I'd ever gotten torrents to work on my computer. Sendspace type threads and Google Blog Search get me pretty much anything I could want. A few exceptions, sure, but not much.
tacroy:
If you're looking for individual songs, a decent alternative is Cr3ation B3ta. Pretty straightforward to use, but has some limitations--getting classic songs and some obscure stuff is easy ("Rhapsody in Blue" is easy to find, and I can look up a few Infected Mushroom tracks as well), but mainstream stuff doesn't seem to work (no Britney Spears for you!) I find I do better searching by artist than by track title.
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