UK police herd up erstwhile OiNK users on conspiracy charges
From Ars Technica:
UK police arrested six more users late last week for sharing prerelease music over the once popular torrent tracker OiNK.cd. The new arrests seem somewhat odd, since OiNK has been shut down since last October, although some believe that they are part of a greater investigation into what law enforcement believes is a conspiracy to defraud the music industry.
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Those within the music industry apparently consider leaking prerelease music a much more serious offense than sharing music that is already commercially available, therefore feeding into the idea that these file sharers are engaged in some sort of conspiracy to undermine the music industry’s business model. Those arrested were allegedly told that they were under suspicion of “conspiracy to defraud the music industry,” according to inside sources speaking to TorrentFreak, and that further arrests would be made. Police also apparently tried to find some personal connection between these users and Ellis (unsurprisingly, there was none).
