![]() Attorney's Office reveals how it was able to track Vaulin. In a 48-page criminal complaint (PDF) filed with the U.S. KAT counts more than 50 million unique monthly visitors and is estimated to be the 68th most frequently visited website on the internet - according to Alexa. It finally took the mantle in 2015 after The Pirate Bay experienced multiple raids, battled lengthy spells of downtime and its three founders were arrested. The US is now waiting to extradite him.įounded in 2008, the site has slowly grown to become the biggest torrent-sharing website in the world. He's been accused of illegally reproducing and distributing hundreds of millions of copies of movies, video games, TV shows and music albums totalling more than $1 billion. But that's what happened to 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin a.k.a "tirm," owner and operator of KickassTorrents (KAT), who was yesterday arrested and charged in Poland for criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. When you're the owner of the world's biggest torrent-sharing site, the last thing you'd expect to land you in trouble would be a totally legitimate (and legal) purchase via iTunes.
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