Saturday, 27. October 2007
Topic: WEB - on October 27, 2007 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Oink Users Recall Defunct Song-Swap Site's Strange, Stringent Rules
When authorities shut down Oink.cd on Oct. 23, former users of the private BitTorrent tracker lamented the loss of one of the world's largest and most meticulously maintained online music repositories.
But Oink was also one of the strangest file-sharing services around, with rules both practical and puerile. Like a persnickety record store clerk, Oink's operators banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules and mandated that all users' avatars be "cute" -- even taking pains to define exactly what made an avatar appropriately cuddly.
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