Founder of Oink music piracy site 'had $300,000 in bank'

it doesn't make it ok at all :P

dvdasacd said:
And that combined with taking steps to give myself a certain amount of security that I deem adequate, makes it a worthwhile endeavour for me.
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what you deem adequate is not always adequate :lol:

just kidding (and telling a little bit of truth hehe) ;)

anyway, I'm thankful that there are people like you out there...
 
why do some trackers make so much money in so little time ? because of idle spoiled brats like 4pirates.

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WhatMan said:
I don't believe it at all. The press and prosecution have been twisting the facts since day one - why do you believe anything from the people who say that members HAD to pay 5 euros to invite a friend?

I, for one, know how much money a site like the size of OiNK brings in, and I know how much one costs. I can tell you - even for a huge site with thousands of donors, it is very difficult to earn operating costs if you don't offer pay-to-leech. OiNK had enormous operating costs - I suspect on the level of 3-4,000 euros per month. I've always been amazed that they were even able to break even.

I think the prosecution is twisting facts here - I'd bet money that the actual number is $300,000 spent over the course of the entire site's existence. This is not a highly unreasonable amount - with four high-powered servers in a leaseweb reseller, as well as peripheral costs such as proxies, over the course of three years, it sounds about as much as he'd take in and spend to me.
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More likely the case.
 
dvdasacd said:
lol that makes no sense at all. how does being caught have *anything* to do with the issue of making money off a site? :S The issue is not whether he IS making money or not (we now know that is in doubt), but the general principle of doing it. :rolleyes:
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No the issue is theres gotta be some reward for the risk. You think people should run sites just to be nice guys. Get a clue, you must be 14, this is the real world. You dont take a chance like that just so you can tell your friends I'm the sysop at oink.

Even more so this was a site that never asked for donations. But people still wanted to donate. Thats on them.
 
They don't really specify if the money is from the donations/site though. Even if it is it's not a big surprise, taking into account the prominence of OiNK at that time...
 
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