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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

 

 

 

The music industry should adapt to the internet era rather than trying to fight it. The big record labels are pricing themselves right out the market by overcharging for CDs while at the same time internet radio and services like iTunes are giving new exposure to musical talent independent from their corporate control. As long as CDs are overpriced and musical artists are pushed onto the radio and TV for their marketability rather than their talent, people will look for their music elsewhere. The record labels should have realized that ten years ago. They're quickly making themselves obsolete and don't seem to be willing to do anything about it.

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To be fair to the industry it was a profit making website and that just isn't in the spirit or sharing.

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http://www.demonoid.com/

 

 

 

I found this one to be 100 times better than OINK, sometimes they take it down for a bit.

 

 

 

The guy who owns Tv-Links.co.uk has been raided and arrested and the site has been shut down as well, co-ordinated raids? Me thinks so.

 

 

 

Different countries. Different anti-piracy groups.

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British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music.

 

 

 

A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.

 

 

 

The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

 

 

 

A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.

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http://www.demonoid.com/

 

 

 

I found this one to be 100 times better than OINK, sometimes they take it down for a bit.

 

 

 

The guy who owns Tv-Links.co.uk has been raided and arrested and the site has been shut down as well, co-ordinated raids? Me thinks so.

 

 

 

Different countries. Different anti-piracy groups.

wrong.
British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music.

 

 

 

A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.

 

 

 

The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

 

 

 

A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.

 

 

 

Demonoid is a public tracker, not a private one. You compare Demonoid to The Pirate Bay. You compare Oink to the other private ones (which need not be named here). Just like you wouldn't compare Mininova to The Pirate Bay or Demonoid, since it's not a tracker. You would compare Mininova to Suprnova or TorrentSpy.

 

 

 

And they are different anti-piracy groups. TV-Links was taken down by FACT, and Oink was taken down by the IFPI. The IFPI is international and FACT is UK based. So I wasn't entirely correct when I said different countries, but I was partially correct. Oinks servers are in Amsterdam, and FACT wouldn't have been able to confiscate them there.

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