Recently terminated BitTorrent tracker, OiNK.cd, will be replaced during the next week with a modified site attempting to regain the hundreds of thousands of confiscated music albums. Earlier this week, OiNK.cd had its servers raided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or the IFPI.
The modified site - entitled BOiNK - is a project from notorious BitTorrent behemoth The Pirate Bay. BOiNK will contain several different features than the original tracker, which claimed an estimated 180,000 users at the time of seizure. Primarily, BOiNK will be a public site rather than invite-only, now dependent on the former OiNK community for music uploads.
The Pirate Bay's ability to reconstruct the tracker in a matter of days once again demonstrates the resiliency of filesharing sites. Another lesson for the IFPI and RIAA on the difficulties of disabling distributed networks. And if these organizations still have no learned lessons, this list provides more examples detailing the perseverance of Torrent trackers.