Alleged Owner KickassTorrents Arrested

The alleged owner of popular torrent website, Kickass Torrents, has been arrested by U.S. authorities.  With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.

On 20 July 2016, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had seized the KAT.cr domain and had identified its alleged owner.  The remaining domains were taken offline voluntarily after the KAT.cr domain name was seized.

Vaulin was arrested after investigators cross-referenced an IP address he used for an iTunes transaction with an IP address used to log into KAT’s Facebook page. The FBI also posed as an advertiser, and obtained details of a bank account associated with the site.

“Copyright infringement exacts a large toll, a very human one, on the artists and businesses whose livelihood hinges on their creative inventions,” Zachary T. Fardon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, said in a statement. “Vaulin allegedly used the Internet to cause enormous harm to those artists.”

 

 

Vaulin faces up to 5 years for copyright infringement, and up to 20 years for the money laundering.

As of now if you go on the website this is what you will be told – This page (http://kickasstorrentsan.com/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare’s Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version.

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