Oink was a 2-year police operation involving Interpol and I'm guessing a lot of resources.
I think that the authorities don't have the resources to do that with the numerous private trackers that around. Targeting and threatening the users rather than the site admins looks to be the new, speedier, approach. With the public trackers, notorious ones like TPB are probably like shooting fish in a barrel for the '3rd party monitors' that report the users to their ISP.
I used the TPB after usenet, which was after emule, all the way back to napster - 20 minutes for a 'free' mp3 on 56k, when I showed my mates they were aghast, astounded by the concept, they would have to go to the record shop to set up an import of one of the rare remixes they were usually after. Then the threat and now I'm scrambling to get on a decent private tracker. Since I used TBP I have no ratio except the stats dialog box on utorrent, I effectively have no currency for an invite. I have joined the open registration trackers, but there's very few leechers and a lot of seeders, so I've opened a seedbox account... This whole process would deter a lot of people. More people=more diverse content.
In October 2007 the anti-piracy squad launched legal proceedings against usenet.com, they are hoping to nail them using the Grokster decision, if they win I'm sure the usenet communitys servers will fold or be heavily filtered. Oinks servers were based in Amsterdam which is where, for example, Giganews European servers operate from.
I'm not saying that history hasn’t shown that given an obstacle the pirating community hasn't gotten around it, but ip protols are really slow and if someone dosen't give me a damned invite your helping them win! ;)
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10-25-2008, 11:50 PM
qwerty64, 
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