Shocker: Oink Admin Goes Free!
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.