Oink operator cleared of all charges

Oink operator cleared of all charges

This is one major victory for the freedom lovers on the internet.

Oink founder Alan Ellis has been cleared of all charges.

He operated the popular torrent network Oink which was closed down in October 2007.

Music labels had claimed that Ellis had helped in sharing of around 21 million music files.

He was in fact the first person in the UK to be charged with illegal file-sharing.

The major issue in the lawsuit was that his site asked the users to donate for the service.

Ellis stated that the money generated from donations were used to pay for servers and management. He had no intentions to profit from this service.

He further said: “It was to further my skills. To better my skills for employability.”

Like most torrent networks Oink did not host any media files. It just provided a way to allow users to share them through torrent files and a tracker.