FIRST LOOK: THE MAN BEHIND THE OiNK INVESTIGATION

By Camille Dodero Thu., Oct. 25 2007 at 11:49 AM

Categories: iVoice

ANOTHER SOUND OF THE CITY CHAT ROOM EXCLUSIVE! A few weeks ago, Jon Bois managed burrowed his way into a top-secret private musical genius chat room and got an EXCLUSIVE screen capture of Thom Yorke talking about In Rainbows. This week BOIS HACKED INTO AN INVITE-ONLY, DONATIONS ACCEPTED OiNK SYMPATHIZERS CHAT! FIIIIIIIIRRRRSSSSTTT LOOOK @ THE MAN BEHIND THE OiNK INQUEST. OMMFG!

	OnlineHost Welcome to OiNKO Sympathizers Chat!
	rear_edmurrow: Good evening. /lights cigarette
	rear_edmurrow: This week, the popular music-sharing site OiNK was taken offline by authorities, and its 24-year-old suspected administrator was arrested and charged.
	rear_edmurrow: A menacing message was placed on /lights second cigarette oinkth web thite that thtated a
	rear_edmurrow: fuck it /rips off filters, flicks off cherries, swallows cigarettes whole
	rear_edmurrow: Ahem. A menacing message was placed on OiNK's web site announcing that an investigation has launched to learn the identities of OiNK sympathizers around the world.
	rear_edmurrow: CBS has arranged an interview tonight with the man spearheading the inquiry, the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy.
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: ah hello
	rear_edmurrow: Senator, please detail your aims with this investigation.
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: well ah,the ah. . . ahhh i ahh
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: sorry, i know you're comfortable in this medium but the internet is not my format of choice
	rear_edmurrow: got you by the balls now b1tch
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: look, i'm very aware that my persona and the word "mccarthyism" are regularly misused to prop up half-baked arguments by people all over the internet
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: but seriously, fear mongering aside, you have to admit that music stealing is unethical and nobody who used Oinko didn't know it was a crime
	rear_edmurrow: whatever music belongs to everyone duuude you can't, like, own things
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: you Oinko sympathizers have no one to blame but yourselves for stealing music
	rear_edmurrow: man fuck you, you can't just go prosecuting people who steal stuff, what kind of kafkaesque orwellian nightmare are we living in
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: do you even know who orwell is
	rear_edmurrow: the dude who stood in front of the tank with the suitcase aw shit 4:20
	rear_edmurrow: /lights Parliament shiiiiit lol don't taze me broooooo
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: Listen, I cannot win an argument with you in Internet-speak.
	rear_edmurrow: Fine. All I have left to say is that if people steal from a bloated financial behemoth and face longer terms than sex offenders, I am going to laugh until I cry. Or wait, maybe I'll cry until I laugh.
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: I think we can all agree with that sentiment.
	rear_edmurrow: This is Edward R. Murrow. Good night, and good luck.
	OnlineHost The studio lights dim.
	rear_edmurrow: ... oh god oh god oh god /freaks the fuck out
	rear_edmurrow: /rips out hard drive, tosses in microwave so am i going to the "oz" jail or the "ernest goes to jail" jail
	DudeWheresMcCarthy: the comforts of neither, the horrors of both
	rear_edmurrow: in retrospect, downloading the new feist album was just barely worth it