Alan Ellis deserved to make money for what he did - he built a successful, efficient, popular service for people to find music. Instead of suing him, the record companies should have bought oink.cd of him and added some kind of monthly subscription model and/or a pay-to-buy-ratio system.<p>Importantly... does this mean that other people can now run free torrent sites like Oink with no legal risk? I'm not sure how British law works, in terms of setting precedents and the like...