London - Police in Britain have recently arrested six users of the OiNK BitTorrent-based file-sharing service, who are believed to have engaged in sharing pre-release albums, TorrentFreak reported. The individuals -- five men ages 19 to 33 and one 28-year-old woman -- were arrested on suspicion of "conspiracy to defraud the music industry," sources told TorrentFreak.

Prague - The Czech police, working with record label trade group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), have shut down a computer server at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic that hosted what they said was one of the largest collections of pre-release music in the world.

San Francisco - Coders with The Pirate Bay, the notorious Sweden-based file-sharing network, are now at work developing a new service based on OiNK, the private file-sharing hub that was shut down last week by British and Dutch police, TorrentFreak.com reported. Called BOiNK, the tracker will ask former OiNK users to re-upload their torrents of mainly pre-release albums from independent artists.