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Originally Posted by milo
My point was that taken as a whole they haven't dented the internets ability to spread music.
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They have though, oink was a respository for stuff which would be extremely hard to get anywhere else (including shops in some cases). Its somewhat ironic that the stuff the RIAA cares about (mainstream chart music) is precisely the stuff you can get on pretty much every p2p network easily, whereas oink's virtues lay elsewhere.
Oink being shut down is a huge huge blow to music distribution on the internet, its nonsense to talk about it like its just one tracker out of hundreds being closed.