conspiracy

The Middlesbrough court acquitted Alan Ellis, the former admin of music BitTorrent tracker OiNK, who had been accused of conspiracy to defraud.

The 26-year-old defendant was charged with making $300,000 in user donations from the invite-only service, which members used to share high quality and pre-release music. But his defense asserted that OiNK was analogous to Google, and that he was not responsible if members used it to infringe copyright.