Andre Yoskowitz
30 Jul 2008 14:03
Two former uploaders for the music torrent tracker OiNK have been cleared of all charges today after being arrested in the UK earlier this summer. Four others still remain charged.
There was little known about the identities of the uploaders but we do know that one was a 18 year old male and the other was a 28 year old female.
The users were arrested this May in conjunction with “Operation Ark Royal.” The charges were "suspicion of conspiracy to defraud the Music Industry” as well as the standard copyright infringement offenses.
At its peak, OiNK was one of the largest private torrent trackers, home to hundreds of thousands of high quality album releases as well as audiobooks, ebooks, and software.
The site was taken down in late 2007 by British and Dutch law enforcement based on mostly false intelligence provided by the IFPI and the BPI.