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The Pirate Bay cancels BOiNK

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 27 Nov 2007 6:47 User comments (11)

The Pirate Bay cancels BOiNK The Pirate Bay has announced that it has canceled its plans to launch BOiNK, a replacement to the recently shut down OiNK. The Pirate Bay will be leaving the revival of thousands of music albums to more specialized private BitTorrent trackers instead.
TBP canceled its plans because several new sites sprung up to replace OiNK just days after it was taken down. As Brokep , and admin at TBP said, “There are so many people opening up new music trackers right now so there’s no need for us to go and do that as well.”

"It’s simply better for us not to interfere with the music lovers that want their special ratio trackers for only scene releases and so forth. That’s not our specialty! Each to do what they’re best at and what they love the most,” he added.

Some other music trackers, including what.CD, waffles.fm, and STmusic have seen a huge traffic jump since the fall of OiNK, with triple digit increases.



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11 user comments

128.11.2007 11:02

Let's hope it's to make room for a Demonoid come back!!

228.11.2007 11:39

This is what makes them one of the best torrent sites available because they respect the rest of their peers. I hope these folks that seem have some enjoyment off taken down sites like Oink and Demonoid catch some serious arthritis in their knuckles for all their crap lol.

328.11.2007 15:33
goodswipe
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Originally posted by spydah:
This is what makes them one of the best torrent sites available because they respect the rest of their peers. I hope these folks that seem have some enjoyment off taken down sites like Oink and Demonoid catch some serious arthritis in their knuckles for all their crap lol.
lol @ that

428.11.2007 23:12

Quote:
Originally posted by spydah:
This is what makes them one of the best torrent sites available because they respect the rest of their peers. I hope these folks that seem have some enjoyment off taken down sites like Oink and Demonoid catch some serious arthritis in their knuckles for all their crap lol.
lol @ that
x2, you mean like how they respected aXXo?

529.11.2007 02:44

Ahh...how weird of The Pirate Bay.
It seems like they would've already had BOiNK up by this time, but I guess not.
However, they are in enough "trouble" as it is already, so the decision to not bring BOiNK up is probably a good one. I mean, suprNova was one thing (it being one of the most badass torrent sites) but OiNK...prerelease and hard-to-find music (which is still great IMO but doesn't exactly cut it, and prerelease can easily be found on other places anyways).
I'd just say smooth move on their part.

629.11.2007 11:59

Does any dare to list some of those good music trackers please.

730.11.2007 02:11

long live demonoid and WB

830.11.2007 09:58

Originally posted by msam137:
Does any dare to list some of those good music trackers please.

I'm not into music but I bet you could find what you want with a little try here:

google.com

B)

91.12.2007 14:51

@qazwiz:

You aren't into music? How could that be possible? Go to pandora.com right now and type in, i dunno "Cordovan" or something and listen for a while. (Good) music is good for your soul.

1020.12.2007 18:54

Smart move in my book.

1121.12.2007 02:43

Originally posted by maitland:
@qazwiz:
.....(Good) music is good for your soul.
ain't been any good music since 1975! 8-)
This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 21 Dec 2007 @ 2:44

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