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Today, Alan Ellis the admin of OiNK, will appear in court along with five users accused of uploading music via the BitTorrent tracker.

The six will appear before magistrates to learn if their cases will be sent on to a Crown Court. They are joined by Cleveland police, who face a copyright infringement crisis of their own.

During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement.

Today, OiNK admin Alan Ellis has been charged with conspiracy to defraud. Charges against four OiNK uploaders will follow later today.

After extending the bail date 5 times, Cleveland police has announced the charges against OiNK administrator Alan Ellis.

This week, many thousands of warning letters will be received by people in the UK accused of sharing files.

Each recipient will get the smallest possible slap on the wrist. Yet today another police bail deadline will come and go for six people accused of doing exactly the same on OiNK.

Don’t they deserve letters too?

Today, Alan Ellis, the owner of OiNK, will have his bail extended for an amazing fifth time.

Last week TorrentFreak reported that Cleveland Police had arrested a user of OiNK, who was questioned and later released on police bail.

Cleveland police initially stated that the charges against Alan would be announced December 2007, but this was soon postponed for two months due to a lack of evidence.

Interestingly, the police did return OiNK’s servers at the time, after they erased the hard drives.

In February the bail date was extended for the second time, only to be extended yet again today.