Oink snuffs it (Read 47473 times)

Bubba · October 29, 2007, 09:22:06 am

Quote from: dontfollowme on October 29, 2007, 08:51:15 am

What is everyone else using instead?

Demonoid for general stuff (but not music), and I've signed up to stmusic.org which is looking quite promising.

Other existing sites which have had good things said about them are:
libble.com (full and now invite only)
funkytorrents.com (full and now invite only)
exigomusic.org (invite only)
revolutiontt.net (invite only)
btmusic.eu (invite or donation only)
filemp3.org (open but i can't get the confirmation email)

But all the hype at the moment seems to be pointing to 2 new offerings - waffles.fm which will open in the next couple of days, and what.cd which is in beta but has a lot of music on it already (apparantly, it's down right now).

I think waffles.fm is the one to go with until oinks legal battles are sorted out.

Bubba · October 29, 2007, 09:33:02 am

edit - got into filemp3.org now and there's a lot of stuff there.

Bubba · October 30, 2007, 09:34:16 pm

If you can prove that you were an Oink member then waffles.fm may well sort you out with an invite near launch day - see http://www.waffles.fm/faq.php

underground · October 30, 2007, 09:39:59 pm

Interesting... is it OK to send a message containing a current fixed IP address do you think?

Jim · October 30, 2007, 09:44:33 pm

I seriously doubt it

underground · October 30, 2007, 09:47:02 pm

Mmm, it seems so dunt it. Send us proof of your previous oink activity including emails or live urls to your machine.

Bubba · October 30, 2007, 09:50:38 pm

I seriously doubt it's a honey-pot - when you use bittorrent anyone can see your IP address and exactly what you're seeding/leeching. The feds have been watching Oink for 2 years so if they were going to go after you then they'd have more than enough to go on already

underground · October 30, 2007, 09:59:07 pm

S'pose so. Well we'll see. STMusic is open...

Bubba · October 30, 2007, 10:02:13 pm

Yeah, and ST seems quite good too...but from reading the Oink's memorial forums it seems most people are going to be heading to what.cd or waffles.fm, with funkytorrents being a popular choice too.

Anyway, all of us were small fry compared to the Oink heavyweights - there were people with many TB uploaded...

slackline · November 07, 2007, 08:56:58 pm

Signing up for STMusic ends on the midnight on the 8th November. If you want to sign up go here. Afterwards it'll be invite only.

fatboySlimfast · November 15, 2007, 07:51:51 am

looks like demonoids gone down as well now

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The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

shite

dontfollowme · November 15, 2007, 08:59:27 am

Anyone gained access to waffles.fm yet? I get the impression its mainly ex oinkers on there.

Bubba · November 15, 2007, 03:03:34 pm

I'm on stmusic / what.cd / waffles.fm and funkytorrents but i've not been there long enough to get invites. Trying to get my waffles ratio up to scratch.

When i get a load of invites i'll pass some on the the usual suspects

dontfollowme · November 15, 2007, 03:52:53 pm

Is waffles.fm noticeably better than ST Music?

Bubba · November 15, 2007, 05:04:18 pm

There is more torrents and more .flac.

About 35k torrents so far i think.

What is pretty good too. Funkytorrents not great really.

JR · November 15, 2007, 05:20:56 pm

urgh, this all totally sucks. Was bound to happen at some point though. Would massively appreciate a waffles or what invite when someone gets one spare. Totally missed all the registration periods...

Bubba · November 15, 2007, 06:35:26 pm

If/when i get invites i'll invite all the old "wasters" people - you know who you are

I've already invited the person who invited me to Oink so hopefully he'll get some spares too before very long.

Quote from: JR on November 15, 2007, 05:20:56 pm

Was bound to happen at some point though.

I agree, it was. But now Oink is dead (maybe not forever) 3 alternatives have sprung up in it's wake. The recording industry just don't get it - they can't stop this.

Even if they start to go after users (as has been threatened this week) then everyone will just use darknets and they will have lost all control over who is sharing what. They will lose, the writing's on the wall.

The music industry has changed forever. For me it's not even about getting stuff for free any more. I'd rather donate £10 to an artist that I love rather than buy the CDs in the shops and see them getting the 50p (or whatever other measly sum) that they typically get after the industry has taken it's cut.

JR · November 20, 2007, 06:09:20 pm

anyone using ftwr.in?

Bubba · November 21, 2007, 01:09:01 am

It's not working for me atm - are you a member? is it any good?

JR · November 21, 2007, 04:24:03 pm

nah not a member but trying to find out how! take it you're not a member? follow the white rabbit.

Bubba · November 21, 2007, 10:53:26 pm

Nope, not a member...nor at Exigo which is another one of the "underground" sites. I'm not sure these really exclusive sites are ever going to have a big enough userbase to offer a wide range of music tbh.

I'll stick with stm/what/waffles for now - it's hard enough trying to keep a good ratio on 3 at once, let alone more.

Bubba · November 25, 2007, 05:11:43 pm

Pirate Bay scraps their plans for their Oink replacement "Boink" due to lack of point

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-cancels-oink-replacement-071124/

andy_e · November 26, 2007, 01:38:09 pm

Demonoid and albumbase.com have gone *pop* too...

Bubba · November 26, 2007, 05:23:07 pm

Demonoid was shit for music anyway, but i think they will be back once they've relocated servers.

JR · November 26, 2007, 06:18:05 pm

i repeat, urgh this all totally sucks

Can't even download stuff to find out whether i want to go to a couple of concerts and gigs in december, so i'm not going to any at the moment. So much for oink et al not helping the music industry.... OK, sure i downloaded stuff which I didn't pay for in the long run, albums, gigs or otherwise but I aint putting anything back in to the industry whatsoever at the moment. And its not even stuff that you can just buy one track off on itunes etc...

urgh. :-(