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Does yesterdays news about OiNK being shutdown worry you? Worried because that massive music collection you’ve amassed was collected using high quality rips offered on OiNK? According to info from an undisclosed source:

OiNK.cd only kept logs for a total of seven days for maintenance purposes, after which they were deleted. They’ll have our ratios and possibly snatch lists, but no personally identifying information.

The tracker was originally taken down because of pre-release (presumably mainstream) material. About three months ago, the White Stripes’ Icky Thump album mysteriously disappeared, and the mods warned us not to repost it. The log said it was removed “by request.” This was occurring right around the time they were having DNS problems and had to switch to OiNK.cd. It also fits the “three month” timeline better than the “two year investigation,” which I highly doubt.

Bottom line… if you downloaded a popular pre-release within the last week, you’re suspect to be tracked down. But there’s no way they’ll go after 180,000 users… the countersuits would be ridiculous.

Are you still worried?