This morning OiNK a popular BitTorrent site was shutdown by Interpol. The servers for the site (located in Amsterdam) were seized in a series of raids last week. In Middlesbrough, a 24 year old male IT worker was arrested and is being held and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement of copyright law. At the same time his employer (from a large multi-national company) and his fathers home were also raided according to the BBC.

This comes after a 2 year investigation by British and Dutch police, music industry bodies IFPI and the British Phonographic Industry. The International Federation of the Phonographic Indstry says this year OiNK had leaked 60 major pre-release albums.

P2P watchdog site Torrentfreak had more details, saying that the law enforcement agencies were currently looking to have the identities of users turned over to authorities. The site boasted nearly 180,000 registered members according to the story. It’s highly unlikely that they will track down all the the registered members due to the disperse international user base, and then subject them to British law.