Crying all the way to the OiNK bank

The trial of OiNK's Alan Ellis raises questions about whether BitTorrent sites can become lucrative businesses. The majors need to get behind legal alternatives to protect the work of musiciansLast Friday, the trial of Alan Ellis, administrator of BitTorrent tracker OiNK, came to a conclusion when Ellis was acquitted of conspiracy to defraud. The court was told that when police raided 24-year-old Ellis's terraced house they found that he had £180k in his PayPal account, allegedly coming from ...

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