Oink website shut in piracy probe
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From Times Wire Service
British and Dutch police shut down what they said was one the world’s biggest online sources of pirated music and arrested the website’s suspected operator.
The website Oink specialized in distributing albums leaked before their official release by record companies, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said.
A 24-year-old information technology worker was arrested at a house in northeast England.
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