U.S. seizes KickassTorrents domains, site owner arrested
The U.S. has dealt a major blow to KickassTorrents, one of the world’s most popular illegal files-sharing websites.
On Wednesday, law enforcement in Poland arrested the alleged owner of the site, 30 year-old Artem Vaulin of Ukraine.
He's been charged with criminal copyright infringement, and the U.S. Department of Justice said it was seeking to extradite him to the U.S. The DOJ also seized several domains associated with the service, although the main site appeared to be still running Wednesday afternoon.
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