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Oink Founder Acquitted
Filed in archive Legal by jeff goldman on January 17, 2010
Oink Founder Acquitted


Oink founder Alan Ellis has been acquitted in a UK court.


"Oink, one of the world's largest file-sharing website, was started by Ellis in 2004 and had about 200,000 members who were able to share and download music files for free until it was closed down in October 2007 following a police raid," writes The Next Reporter's Penelope Madrigal.


"Like most torrent networks Oink did not host any media files," notes TechWhack's Manuj Kumar. "It just provided a way to allow users to share them through torrent files and a tracker."


"That Ellis is walking away is really quite an achievement, both for him and the British legal system: he simply told the court that he had no intention to defraud copyright holders," writes Download Squad's Sebastian Anthony. "When asked why he set the site up, while giving evidence, he said: 'It was to further my skills. To better my skills for employability.'"


More here from TopNews UK ... more here from TorrentFreak ... more here from Mashable ... and more here from Broadband Genie.



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