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Feds Seize KickassTorrent
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Feds Seize KickassTorrent
Quote:The U.S. Government has arrested the alleged owner of KickassTorrents, the world's largest torrent site. The 30-year-old Ukrainian was arrested in Poland today and is charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. In addition, a federal court in Chicago has ordered the seizure of several KAT domain names.

With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.

Today, however, the site has run into a significant roadblock after U.S. authorities announced the arrest of the site’s alleged owner.

The 30-year-old Artem Vaulin, from Ukraine, was arrested today in Poland from where the United States has requested his extradition.

In a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the alleged owner is charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement.


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Only goverments are allowed to steal.
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#3
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That's cute *browses through the billion or so Pirate Bay mirror sites*
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That's nasty. At least they were there when piratebay was down, now it's the other way around.
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That was my main squeeze. Boo.
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Even in my pirating days I never used torrents but filehosts. Usually much quicker than torrents and not as shiny a beakon to your doorstep.
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What can I say? I hope they hack Apple and the Us GOVT, those cunts have no business doing this. Fuck them.


You can still find proxies, I see.
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The war against online piracy is like the war on drugs. It will never succeed and our freedoms and privacy will be taken away because of it. I'd like to keep the World Wide Web free and open, thank you. The United States Government is an enemy of the Internet.

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I never heard of KickassTorrents before. So I read the title as the government went after a torrent of the movie Kickass.
All I could think was that that was a very specific thing for them to target. Undecided
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Well done feds! Finally piracy is over! You deserve a pat on your backs, take a week off!
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