{"id":637602,"date":"2010-01-21T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100121\/0943437857.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:10:00","slug":"recording-industry-may-go-after-oink-admin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/637602","title":{"rendered":"Recording Industry May Go After OiNK Admin Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were as surprised as anyone that a UK court correctly realized that OiNK itself didn&#8217;t violate copyright law, and thus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100115\/1051307772.shtml\">admin Alan Ellis hadn&#8217;t done anything illegal<\/a>.  But rather than understand the difference between infringing copyrights and hosting a tracker, the recording industry is now flipping out and insisting that <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/music-industry-set-for-civil-action-against-oink-100121\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20Torrentfreak%20%28Torrentfreak%29\" >Ellis must be punished somehow<\/a>, and it may file a civil suit against him because apparently punishing people is more important than actually coming up with business models that work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100121\/0943437857.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100121\/0943437857.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100121\/0943437857&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=bf650a82d014485efe29ccf45f35907b&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=bf650a82d014485efe29ccf45f35907b&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=iA5vU8dIVXQ:vlHqUbpZe18:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=iA5vU8dIVXQ:vlHqUbpZe18:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=iA5vU8dIVXQ:vlHqUbpZe18:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/iA5vU8dIVXQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were as surprised as anyone that a UK court correctly realized that OiNK itself didn&#8217;t violate copyright law, and thus admin Alan Ellis hadn&#8217;t done anything illegal. But rather than understand the difference between infringing copyrights and hosting a tracker, the recording industry is now flipping out and insisting that Ellis must be punished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FRU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}