THELOGICALINDIAN - On July 20 US government admiral bedeviled the website KickAssTorrents KAT and arrested the declared architect of the armpit Artem Vaulin The armpit facilitated pirated agriculture and downloading of copyrighted actual through assorted BitTorrent platforms
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KickAssTorrents Seized, Probably Won’t Come Back
The KAT website was created in 2009 and was one of the best accepted torrenting domains agnate to the abominable PirateBay. U.S. authorities had advice from Homeland Security, Facebook, Linkedin, and the Bitcoin barter Coinbase with demography bottomward the torrent website.
The architect of KAT appears to be a Ukrainian built-in who ran best of the operations with a few added bodies mentioned. The architect was arrested in Poland, as law administration and absorb advancement groups accept been on his trail for abounding years. The WHOIS online area annal acicular to Vaulin as the buyer admiral accompaniment in the bent complaint which says:
Facebook and Apple helped with the analysis as able-bodied assuming Vaulin and others logged assimilate amusing media to advance the armpit regularly. Facebook handed over IP-address logs which was the aforementioned IP abode acclimated in iTunes transactions.
“Records provided by Apple showed that [email protected] conducted an iTunes transaction application IP Address 109.86.226.203 on or about July 31, 2024. The aforementioned IP Address was acclimated on the aforementioned day to login into the KAT Facebook Account,” the affirmation reveals.
Interestingly abundant the abettor advertisement the advice on KAT’s affairs is additionally a being who testified in the Ross Ulbricht case.
Bitcoin Exchange Helps Feds
An absorbing allotment of the story, which may affair Bitcoin supporters, is the actuality that the San Francisco-based barter Coinbase helped federal agents. In 2012, KAT started accepting Bitcoin donations, and U.S. admiral say annal accustomed from Coinbase appear the Bitcoin donation abode was maintained by the exchanges services. The Coinbase annual was registered to Artem Vaulin amid in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The affirmation letters that $72,767 USD in bitcoin had entered the owner’s donation wallet.
KAT was one of the best accepted torrent sites captivated on the internet accepting millions of users per day. Copyright advocates and law administration imposed ISP blockades numerous times over the years but weren’t able to booty the armpit bottomward until this week. It seems the abundant affirmation adjoin Vaulin will be abundant to arraign him and accumulate the armpit from advancing back. While it’s absurd that common users will be targeted, it is still possible that the surmounting affirmation calm could be acclimated adjoin some of them.
Copyright holders who approved to shut bottomward the armpit and arrest Vaulin accommodate the MPAA, RIAA, and the ESA. Complaints say that abounding music album links were captivated on the armpit and torrents for movies such as Deadpool, Captain America, the Hangover, and more. Crackdowns like this accept become added accustomed over the years as KAT joins the brand of the PirateBay, which has been shut bottomward abounding times. Nevertheless, the PirateBay is absolutely anatomic at the moment, which is a attestation to the decentralized technology’s “BitTorrent effect” or attrition to shut down.
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