KickAss Torrents Founder Arrested for Making Copyrighted Material

The suspected originator of one of the web’s most prevalent file-sharing sites, KAT has been detained in Poland. 

Artem Vaulin, Ukrainian national has been indicted with sedition to constrain criminal copyright breach. He has been alleged of two counts; infringement and conspiracy to launder money.

KickAss Torrents Founder Arrested for Making Copyrighted Material

The US establishments are pushing to deport Vaulin on the base of making over $1 billion of copyrighted material available online free of cost. US authorities revealed that the site engrossed around 50 million users every month.

Though the authorities don’t seem to have apprehended the key domain (KAT.ch). But still it’s substituted with a notice saying it has been held. The site is impassive and really down for most of the people.

The assistant US Attorney General revealed in a statement that,

“In an effort to evade law enforcement, Vaulin allegedly relied on servers located in countries around the world and moved his domains due to repeated seizures and civil lawsuits. His arrest in Poland, however, demonstrates again that cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from justice.”

The way the authorities traced Vaulin for supposedly running KickAss Torrents is more attention-grabbing for people than his arrest. The criminal objection also discloses that federal mediators had gone undercover to collect information about KAT’s genre of operation. Agents bought ads on the site to gather data about financial transactions and the site’s staff.

These actions had exposed Vaulin’s email address, [email protected], compered by Apple. Agents appealed Apple for help, who offered a copy of his email inbox to authorities.

According to the Justice Department, KAT’s website “significances to meet with the confiscation of copyrighted materials” but evidence exhibited it did not confiscate content entreated by organizations.

KAT was the 69^th most handled site on the internet, the time Vaulin was arrested. The notorious Pirate Bay has not reached this position. The site’s projected traffic was about 50 million unique users for each month.

Authorities reveal that they can seize or shut down illegal file-sharing sites. But the operators repeatedly revive with servers in different dominions.