Police arrest six former OiNK users

June 3, 2008

Six former OiNK users have been arrested by British Police over the past fortnight in connection with the to the now defunct P2P music sharing site. They are believed (although it is unconfirmed by official channels) to be being questions on suspicion of “Conspiracy to Defraud the Music Industry”.

Three arrests were made on Friday 23rd May, followed by three more on Wednesday 28th May. Five of those arrested were male and aged between 19 and 33. The other was 28-year-old woman.

OiNK was closed down by a combination of British and Dutch Police forces in October last year. The site administrator, Allan Ellis, was arrested at the time and later released on bail. A message posted on the site after its closure warned that the police would be seeking out its users’ identities.

Clearly, despite the wave of youth knife-crime sweeping across the UK, the best use for police resources is to pander to the music industry demands and victimise former users of a closed file-sharing community. Glad we’re all agreed then.

In these latest arrests, suspects were taken to their local police station for questioning and required to provide DNA samples and fingerprints. There’s no way these hardened BitTorrent thugs will have any chance of getting away with that sort of thing again. The miracles of modern DNA testing will see to that!

via TorrentFreak