Shocker: Oink Admin Goes Free!

By theajaysharma

Oink.cd was a music file sharing website that was shutdown in recent years and has been going through the court system in the UK.  Alan Ellis was found not-guilty in a unianmous decision by the jury.  Oink was an "invite-only" music sharing website using the popular bittorrent protocol which was very popular, even Trent Renzor was a member.  The prosecution was trying to make the case that this was a for-profit website and a business, while the defense stuck with the, "it's not me, it's the users that share music" defense.  Since the owners of the wildly popular PirateBay site were found guilty, I was expecting that Alan Ellis would go down as well, but the jury felt differently.