{"id":22,"date":"2007-10-23T21:50:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z303.org\/2007\/10\/p2p-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:50:20","slug":"p2p-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"P2P Crackdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Friday was tv-links.co.uk being shut down<\/a> (Jack Schofield<\/a>‘s and the Open Right Group<\/a> comments), now today I find out about Oink<\/a>, which was the first I’d heard about that site (Points West<\/strike> Look North report<\/a> on YouTube (via:waxy<\/a>) and DJ Rupture<\/a> comments (also via:waxy<\/a>)).<\/p>\n

Both were international operations with people in a number of countries arrested and high profile, I mean get a TV news crew to come along to your bust is making a point, are they the first in a new waves of takedowns for P2P sites?<\/p>\n

For me tvlinks fulfilled more of the promise of the iplayer<\/a> from when<\/a> I<\/a> first<\/a> heard<\/a> about<\/a> it, than the current version on the BBC (which I heard has so far cost \u00a3130 million<\/a> , but I can’t trackdown the link right now<\/strike>, 2007-10-24: found the link now). All sort of programmes, in a simple to find layout, in a ok quality. Great if you missed a episode or even half a series, so you can catch up at your own pace.<\/p>\n

Other sites take this to the next level adding extra meta data like cast listing, links the DVD releases , links to fansites, Trailers, talkboards and all for much less than \u00a3130 million. The BBC has built some of this meta data<\/a> already, I just hope that the current iPlayer can evolve into what it should have been in the first place.<\/p>\n

As for OiNK, I never even been to the site but from what I have read today, it does sound like it had a large number real music fans much like Audiogalaxy<\/a>, lots of stories of people discovering many many new groups via the site.<\/p>\n

Anyway it will be interesting to see how this all plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Friday was tv-links.co.uk being shut down (Jack Schofield‘s and the Open Right Group comments), now today I find out about Oink, which was the first I’d heard about that site (Points West Look North report on YouTube (via:waxy) and DJ Rupture comments (also via:waxy)). Both were international operations with people in a number of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","without-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Zoe","author_link":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}