John Alexander Rowley » music download http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com computer specialist and online marketing professional Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 UK Music File Sharing site cleared of fraud http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com/uk-music-file-sharing-site-cleared-of-fraud/ http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com/uk-music-file-sharing-site-cleared-of-fraud/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:29:29 +0000 John Alexander Rowley http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com/?p=399 The UK’s first “illegal music downloading website” court case ended today with all charges being dropped for website OINK!’s owner and developer.

The site made over $300,000 in donations, which were claimed to be used to rent servers and eventually buy one. OINK! didn’t host any illegal files on the servers, it simply indexed music files that people held on their own computers and were prepared to share. Between 2004 and 2007 the site generated over 21,000,000 music downloads.

OINK!’s originator gave this reasoning behind the development of the website in court this week; “It was to further my skills. To better my skills for employability.”

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