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It's A Bad Week To Be A Former Admin Of A Torrent Site [The Law]
Posted on September 11, 2008
It was almost a year ago when the cute-avatar-adorned BitTerrorist hub OiNK got shut down by British and Dutch law enforcement, and today, former OiNK admin Alan Ellis was charged with conspiracy to defraud, while at least two former users of the site were charged with copyright infringement by the British authorities. (I'm sure some still-weeping OiNK fan has already made a semi-tortured 9/11 reference, if precedent is any indication.) Ellis hasn't been brought up on any copyright-related charges, but the two users (of six who were arrested in May) were each charged because they each uploaded...
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