I’ve never been more proud to be Canadian. First, it is not “Illegal” to download movies. Then it is legal to share music because we pay a tax on each piece of digital media. Now, a television network, who I would not have thought would do it, are distributing one of it’s tv shows via bittorrent.

Could this be the first of it’s kind of a huge broadcasting company realizing the great power of bittorrent and the large amount of people it can reach.

They have decided to release their TV show called “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” through bittorrent. CBC has gained much of my respect back for them! Way to go CBC. I hope others will follow suit. Too bad all the other broadcasting companies are more interested in making money off ads to pay their huge salaries, rather than actually make the TV shows for the viewers who actually keep them in business.

Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister - CBC
Torrents for Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister - MiniNova

You can always count on The Pirate Bay team to throw a slap in the face of the record industry. Like stated in my previous post, there is a replacement coming out and it is expected to be out within the next few days.

ThePirateBay.org crew are bringing this to you according to TorrentFreak.com. The name of this site is called BOiNK. It is a direct shot at the record industry and the authorities saying they can win the battles but they will never win the war.

I have to admit this was back a lot faster than I had expected. But then again, when have the Pirate Bay team ever been slow at anything?

To get all the up to the second info on it check out the story below on TorrentFreak which is the go to source for this sort of thing.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-bring-back-oink-071026/

If you’re anyone you have probably heard about OiNK one time or another. While the news claimed that OiNK was the first place pre-release albums show up, they were wrong, they usually show up on private ftps, dumpsites, or sites in .eu/.us. However, people grab them from there and curry them over to OiNK.

Anyway, the owner got arrested two days ago in his home in England. This will prove to be a major blow to the P2P piracy scene. I’m sure another site will be back up, if not already, to fill the void left by OiNK.

According to the OiNK site, all users of the site are currently being investigated. While most people, including me, believe this is just a scare tactic, it would suck if it was not. In Canada, we pay a tax on all recordable media which allows us to download/upload mp3s and not have it be illegal. That is why the RIAA hates Canada. Other countries are not so lucky. Apparently 50% of the OiNK members are in the United States, where the RIAA operates.

I have compiled a list of great resources for the latest information related to the OiNK raids!

Video of Raid on OiNK Admin
http://torrentfreak.com/oinkcd-servers-raided-admin-arrested/
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-investigation-seeks-identities-and-activities-of-users-071023/
http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-released-from-custody-071023/
http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2007/10October/MusicNews-26-OiNK.htm
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=8941