Thread: R.I.P. Oink
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Old 10-23-2007, 09:42 AM
Lx_Nen
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Re: R.I.P. Oink
I'm annoyed with the BBC for printing the BPI's quotes without paying any attention to balance or fact-checking. OiNK charged no fees, so it wasn't 'extremely lucrative'... I'm not even sure it ever had ad revenue (hooray for adblock :-) ).

As for the charges, "suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law.", I can't see how either of those will stand up in court. There was no fraud apart from the BPI fraudulently sticking their logo on the defendant's site, and no infringement of copyright law on the actual site (assuming the admin have been reasonably careful about not sharing stuff themselves)... maybe they meant 'conspiracy to infringe copyright law?'

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