Another pirate site gets Raided this time is it Oink

Hot on the heels of Demonoid, then TV-Links, now it is Oink that finds itself shutdown, and the admin arrested. As the major sites where people get media continue to face growing and continual pressure over illegal content, users will find themselves with fewer and fewer options. It also means that there will be more reliance on those sites that are still up and running like Pirate Bay and Stage 6.

According to early reports OiNk’s servers were confiscated in Amsterdam last week. This seems to be unlikely because the site was still fully functional 24 hours ago. The administrator of OiNK was arrested this morning by the Cleveland Police. The BBC reports that his employer and the home of his father were raided as well. Source: Torrent Freak

Both TV-Links and Oink were UK based, which has similar laws to the USA and participates fully in WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). The UK has taken an increasingly aggressive stance in relationship to the streaming media and bittorrent systems. While the servers were hosted in Amsterdam, the admin in the UK, and the employer in the USA, it makes the reach of the IFPI very broad, and might make some people thinking of a safe haven more of an issue.

This only cuts off one more site where people get media, and how the indexing systems are being pursued. The multi-headed option that the Pirate bay has talked about in the past is slowly being killed off by the IPFI and others, as sites have to block users from certain countries, or face being arrested and shut down like TV Links.

Additional reporting via the BBC and Google Search