These music industry organisations described OiNK as an 'online pirate pre-release music club', whereas former users described it as one of the world's largest and most meticulously maintained online music repositories. Following a two-year investigation by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the site was shut down on 23 October 2007, by British and Dutch police agencies. Oink's Pink Palace (frequently stylized as OiNK) was a prominent BitTorrent tracker which operated from 2004 to 2007.
