R.I.P. Oink

[mmm skyscraper]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Today in court, the Crown Prosecutor was unable to serve a bundle of papers on the court or the Defence because their fax machine had run out of paper and no-one was willing to put their hand in their own pocket to go out and buy some. Glad they are getting their funding priorities right.

and the reason they were out of paper? faxed invitations to oblivion with bells

[joethelion]

ok - first reaction

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
as there were some torrents I was JUST about to download

...second reaction
there's no way that they can trace back to us, right?

but at least I don't have to worry about my shitty ratio there anymore

[crank]

man, no doubt on the ratio.
I rarely downloaded anything based on that... i could never get good upload speeds there and whilst i used it occasionally, I wasn't a regular user.

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Originally Posted by joethelion

there's no way that they can trace back to us, right?

There's certainly a way, but I'd really doubt that they'd ever do it. They've made this kind of threat before.

[patrick]

i think that oink apparantly was the source of a lot of pre-releases (not the people getting the pre-releases... NO! not them!), so I think they would go after the people who uploaded those and uploaded lots of new stuff or GB's... Good luck!

[BrotherLovesDub]

http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/defe...ig-oink-croaks

please take the time to read DJ/Rupture's response.

[joethelion]

Originally Posted by patrick

so I think they would go after the people who uploaded those and uploaded lots of new stuff or GB's... Good luck!

well - if it's only a problem if you uploaded GB's worth of material...

[BeautifulBurnout]

OMG there is even an OiNK Memorial Blog!

Now we are getting silly. There will be OiNK bereavement counsellors before long...

[winjer]

I dropped my hard drive about 2 hours before this happened, wiping out about 100 gigs of music. I think I also lost my will to live.

A lotta the good stuff is owned... but honestly... so much... lost...

[negative1]

Originally Posted by winjer

I dropped my hard drive about 2 hours before this happened, wiping out about 100 gigs of music. I think I also lost my will to live.

A lotta the good stuff is owned... but honestly... so much... lost...

dude, don't give up..

i've wiped out 2 hard drives in a move, but i've been able
to use spinrite to recover most of the drives..its VERY VERY
time consuming, and i've had to dedicate a laptop to it 24/7
but its 95% done, and almost every bit has been recovered..

you don't want to end up having to send it a data recovery
place though, that's very expensive..

always, remember, try to have things backed up to dvd, etc.
i do incremental back ups now, and have things in 2 places,
its not perfect, but at least i'm not going to lose everything
at once..

later
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