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Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains and Arrest Owner In Poland (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal authorities announced on Wednesday the arrest of the alleged mastermind of KickassTorrents (KAT), the world's largest BitTorrent distribution site. As of this writing, the site is still up. Prosecutors have formally charged Artem Vaulin, 30, of Ukraine, with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement. Like The Pirate Bay, KAT does not host individual infringing files but rather provides links to .torrent and .magnet files so that users can download unauthorized copies of TV shows, movies, and more from various BitTorrent users. According to a Department of Justice press release sent to Ars Technica, Vaulin was arrested on Wednesday in Poland. The DOJ will shortly seek his extradition to the United States. "Vaulin is charged with running today's most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials," Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said in the statement. "In an effort to evade law enforcement, Vaulin allegedly relied on servers located in countries around the world and moved his domains due to repeated seizures and civil lawsuits. His arrest in Poland, however, demonstrates again that cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from justice." KickassTorrents added a dark web address last month to make it easier for users to bypass blockades installed by ISPs.
Someone care to set up a legal defense fund?
I will donate...
So if I Google kickass torrents and Google returns a link to their site, shouldn't Google be prosecuted as an accessory?
See how fucking stupid these charges are?
I guess the DOJ needs something to distract everyone from the whole letting Clinton commit treason thing.
Listen, Clinton will do what they tell her to do. Trump is a loose canon. They have to make her win regardless of what she has done.
Government should have nothing to do with anything that you mentioned at all. I listed the 2 functions, everything else is none of any governments' business.
You can't handle the truth.
Because government is oppression by definition, government is initiation of violence based on a set of rules that apply to all people within some arbitrary borders that are not based on individual choice necessarily. Moving from one city to the next is simpler than moving from one continent to another. Running away from an oppressive government is not easy, especially when all governments are similarly oppressive.
It should be left up to private individuals to solve such technical problems, personally I don't think governments should exist at all, not even for the 2 functions I listed. Every function that any government gets involved in gets screwed and there is no competition as the size of government and its power keeps growing, at some point growing to global governments (such as the USA Federal government, the EU government and such). People should have freedom not to be bound by the current ideology of any government.
My position is that everything should be done privately and without using initiation of force that is seen as 'legitimate' simply because it is some government that initiates that violence.
You can't handle the truth.
+1
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
You forgot to mention the injuries, and that he was found guilty.
Very odd to see someone here as an apologist for a convicted pedophile rapist, perhaps that "Men's Rights" stuff is far more toxic than I imagined.