The creator and the site of the world’s largest piracy, Kickass Torrents owner, was arrested in Poland and charged to justice in the United States, accused of distributing illegal copies of movies, music and other content rated 1,000 million.
the Department of Justice filed a criminal complaint against the Ukrainian Artem Vaulin, 30, arrested in Warsaw, capital of Poland, and required by Washington violations of copyright, money laundering and other charges.
Vaulin owns Kickass Torrents (KAT), which in recent years eclipsed Pirate Bay and other sites, for become the largest source of online piracy world.
the US criminal complaint states that the site offers “a sophisticated and friendly environment in which users can search for and locate content” which are protected by copyright.
it is estimated that KAT, which distributes films, video games, TV shows, music and other content online, is the 69th most visited site Internet , according to the presentation by the Department of Justice. Alexa ranking, one of the most respected worldwide, placed him precisely there, among the top 70 in the world.
Although Kickass had been collaborating with a portion industry, accepting their requests for deletion and eliminating more than one million torrent files, police and judicial operation happened in the morning.
After him, the Department of Justice United States seized seven domains of the web: kickasstorrents.com, kat.ph, kickass.to, kastatic.com, kickass.so, thekat.tv and kat.cr. Other pages kastatus.com, used to check the status of domains, also is now offline. It has also been seized by the famous bank account associated with the site.
The US federal and plan to extradite Artem Vaulin to charge him in Washington.
in operation, the feds posing as an advertiser to contact those responsible for the web, so you can get the account number associated with the web, with which they were able to obtain data from its creator.
it also states that Apple collaborated with research Vaulin giving personal details. They did researching the IP that had been used to access the account Kickass Torrents on Facebook, and finding out what was associated with that IP in transactions iTunes account.
Against Kickass creator of one count of conspiracy to commit criminal was filed copyright infringement, another conspiracy to money laundering and two counts of criminal copyright infringement. The charges related to copyright infringement can carry a maximum of five years in prison, while the money laundering can drop you up to 20 years.
Yesterday, specialists in issues the web, mainly Spanish analysts, said the innocent behavior of Ukrainian Artem Vaulin own put things too easy for the police.
the authorities caught him by tracking your IP thanks to the mistakes he committed.
In charge of one of the sites most popular in the world torrents, Vaulin used Facebook as anyone else in the world, and your email account Apple was as active as an office worker who has nothing to fear.
in fact, Vaulin was responsible for the fan page Kickass Torrents on Facebook, and when the FBI asked Facebook information account these had to give to the judiciary (it is their duty under the order of a judge).
On the other hand, Vaulin also used tirm@me.com your email account (@ me.com is managed by Apple) and even was shopping in iTunes using this account, which records the IP address when buying. Again, the FBI only had to ask Apple its backed with a court order cooperation to get the information they sought.
And in this same email account Vaulin exchanged related messages to the administration and management of Kickass Torrents.
it is almost unbelievable, agreed analysts think that someone who used to manage a page related to torrent files, P2P and anonymity, out so careless with your personal information, even knowing that he was wanted by authorities in several countries. And so Vaulin was arrested in Poland and is in the process of being extradited to the United States to face trial.
Official Word. In the ad official of the transaction issued by the Department of Justice, the Deputy Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, said: “Vaulin is accused of running the website illegal distribution of files most visited currently responsible for distributing illegal material protected by copyright more than 1,000 million dollars. ”
“In an effort to evade law enforcement, Vaulin apparently depended located in countries around the world servers and moved their domains due to repeated seizures and civil actions,” he said.
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