The Big City

The BBC are reporting that the exclusive, members-only torrent tracker Oink’s Pink Palace has been closed down. It’s a shame but to be honest I am surprised it has taken this long. The site had really strict rules about members having to upload as much music as they downloaded which meant that the range of material available and the speed at which it could be obtained was far better than any other site, including the iTunes store. Oink was a brief vision of how successful the music business could have been if they weren’t so greedy and stupid, no wonder it’s gone.