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Oink Shut Down / Owner Arrested

Posted by Michael on October 23, 2007

Oink, the members-only download site for file-sharing music, has been shut down by British and Dutch authorities. The owner, a twenty-four-year-old man, was arrested in the town of Middlesbrough.  Last week, Dutch authorities siezed the site's servers, which were housed in Amsterdam. You can read the full story on the BBC's website, located here.

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