The US government has finally caught up with founder KickassTorrents (KAT) – the largest party that provides torrent files. Thirty-year old citizen of Ukraine, Artem Waulin, was arrested for copyright infringement and money laundering. Arrest made in Poland.
- Waulin is accused of carrying out the most frequently visited pages to share files, and is responsible for the distribution of copyrighted materials with a value in excess of over a billion dollars – said Leslie Caldwell, Assistant US Attorney-General. – Stop him in Poland shows that the cyber criminal can hide all over the world, but will not escape justice.
Financial losses, which says Caldwell, were incurred by the corporate media, by providing servers KAT files from movies, TV, music, games, various types of software, and even ebooks.
This way, led by a Ukrainian service can “boast” up to 50 million users a month, which gave service 69th position among all websites in the world. Service KickassTorrents proved even more popular among surfers from the legendary Swedish pages of The Pirate Bay.
How is it possible that it was established in 2008. Service ceased to function? It turns out that one of the secret agents of the American Tax Service of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) has bought a five-site advertising, the issue was valued by KAT 300 dollars a day. Target account indicated by the representative of KAT, which presents itself as Mr. White has been indicated in Lithuania.
After the successful issue of advertising, IRS agent trying to buy another. However, he received information from Mr. White that such advertisements have already been sold and offered him a more expensive banner with a value between 1,000 and $ 3,200. This time the account that is designated for transfer, was in Estonia. However, the agreement between Estonia and the United States has allowed federal authorities to determine the details of the bank account and to find its owner.
Measure all domains associated with KickassTorrents blocked by Verisign – the US company responsible for the management of the .net and .com infrastructure.
Waulinowi pending against several proceedings in the United States. The allegations concern a number of copyright infringement and money laundering. State Court in Chicago earlier ordered the seizure of his bank account and seven web addresses.
The American judicial authorities are expecting fast Ukrainian extradition to the US to where he could stand trial.
Źódło: arstechnica.com, PAP
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