Comments on: BitTorrent Users Respond to WWDC Leopard Leak

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:10:23 +0000

“I don’t know how his reporting on the illegal leak of a piece of software gives them the right wish awful, terrible things upon Nicholas’ family members, his mother especially, but that’s their prerogative.”

No, it’s not their prerogative : threatening or intimidating speech is not protected speech, and we all need to be less tolerant of that kind of behavior to encourage healthy debate.

Our attitude, especially among those with influence, must be : Test the strength of my arguments if you can, test the thickness of my skin to character assault if you must, but once you threaten my safety, you are no longer welcome in any forum.

By: Roman Pushkin

Roman Pushkin — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:33:48 +0000

I’ve just installed Leopard. Amazing!!! It looks great and works fine.

By: johnn

johnn — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:38:41 +0000

Why are all the other OiNK users such flaming homophobes? (not to mention pretentious jackasses)

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:24:25 +0000

Anyone have an Oink invite?

By: Jose Hernandez

Jose Hernandez — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:08:12 +0000

Yawn…

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:44:44 +0000

Man you’re quite the fag, Arrington. You and your fag crew cried for attention and got flamed. Boo hoo.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:10:52 +0000

What I think is kind of nuts is that AADC Select members are still waiting to receieve a legal seed of this beta, and we pay apple north of $500 US a year for the privelege of receiving seeds for development purposes.

The past couple of years Apple has restricted access to betas released at WWDC for months to only those who ponied up thousands of dollars to attend the conference. Now the only people who want the beta that don’t have access to it are people who legitimatly need it. Whoever manages the development program at apple needs a reality check.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:35:25 +0000

Sweet, I had no idea you could download a whole Mac OS

By: Story Whore

Story Whore — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:53:23 +0000

The tech paparazzi at work.
You must be really bored.
and yes I think the response was because Oink was singled out.

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:16:27 +0000

Publicity stunt

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:59:48 +0000

didn’t deserve a 2nd post on TC /

– Apple can’t do much . – its out of the bag.

– maybe they can trace the leak, then fire the people.

By: Liquidmatrix Security Digest » Security Briefing: June 22nd

Liquidmatrix Security Digest » Security Briefing: June 22nd — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:40:25 +0000

[...] BitTorrent Users Respond to WWDC Leopard Leak [...]

By: predictable

predictable — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:07:53 +0000

It’s somewhat annoying that you troll for attention and act surprised when you get flamed.

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:57:30 +0000

there was a torrent of Leopard’s latest build on Pirate Bay about 24-48 hours after the keynote. You’re way behind the curve on this. More to the point, who cares? Most of the downloaders just want to try it out and will then dump it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:29:17 +0000

A STRICTLY enforced rule of oink is that your avatar must be “cute.” Having a non-cute avatar is a bannable offense.

The reverence for oink comes because it is perfect. It blows the original Napster away as far as quantity, quality, and speed. I paid 5 euros for two invites a while ago and haven’t been able to get my ratio up high enough to get any more invites and I probably never will.

By: VoR

VoR — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:14:28 +0000

I think part of the problem is that Oink users feel their tracker is being singled out when other trackers had this before them.

Obviously that doesn’t give them the right to be offensive but I can see their point if it’s this that is irritating them.

By: Alex H

Alex H — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:31:07 +0000

John,

A question: Why should they have any respect for a CrunchGear reporter when the CrunchGear reporter has no respect for the property of others?

Bloggers seem to demand a halo around them.

I see a lot of bloggers using freedom of speech and knowledge as a way to justify their writings and such ‘leaks’. But what about the right of property that is derived from the hard working labour that is put into it?

Bloggers are so incredibly one dimensional it ain’t even funny.

By: n/a

n/a — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:14:41 +0000

Yes, it was on Oink, but it was on Demonoid long beforehand (at least 4 hours). Also, Oink was not down for most of the day, or at all as far as I could tell, as I was in the forums and actively downloading content all day. Way to dig for sensationalism instead of fact.

By: Ryan Price

Ryan Price — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:57:38 +0000

Oink has this strange mythology around it… whenever I’ve heard anyone talk about it, there is a strange reverence they treat it with, like it is some secret fountain of youth they want to protect. I have also heard that ANY breaks in the extremely tight Oink protocol will be punished by immediate banishment… and somehow people are supposed to be able to “track you down” if you break the rules and continue to ban you from the site long after your first infraction… and they ALWAYS catch RIAA stooges… sure!

By: Austin Storm

Austin Storm — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:56:01 +0000

Oink users are pretty elitist. I think the pettiness comes from the considerable work groveling on forums most of them had to do to get their membership.

By: Incredible

Incredible — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:50:30 +0000

Is there really that little to report beyond this?

By: qikki

qikki — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:44:33 +0000

So, let me see if I understand this; you posted a pointless ’story’ on Cruchgear that wasn’t news to anyone, got a nasty response for it, and now you’re posting about that as a story on techcrunch? Seriously, is cruchgear that hurting for traffic?

By: TCReader

TCReader — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:00:55 +0000

Seems as though OiNK is having DNS issues.

I haven’t tried to login myself, but the site is up and can be reached by IP: http://85.17.40.71/

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:59:01 +0000

I don’t think these are Mac users being idiots – rather immature Oink members who didn’t want their precious “news” being spread. (Of course if they’re downloading Leopard they probably are Mac users, but anyway…)

Remember the golden rule – Don’t feed the trolls!

By: mnml

mnml — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:58:26 +0000

OS X Leopard leaks, sends torrent downloaders in a frenzy…

Some things will never change.
It seems that Apple’s next version of OS X, named Leopard, has been leaked onto the internet and has quickly spread to almost all popular bittorrent trackers. Downloads of the beta OS have skyrocketed as download…