Kickass Torrents taken down after owner is arrested in Poland

“The global bust is a massive blow to the online torrent community, where millions of people share copyrighted material without paying for it”. “If you want to archive some torrents from KAT, now is the time, because we don’t know how much longer we can keep this site up”, wrote a member of torrent website IsoHunt, where the mirror of KickassTorrents is being hosted.

Having been pressured in the last few years by global entertainment companies like the Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros.

“Vaulin allegedly used the Internet to cause enormous harm to those artists”, Fardon said. The United States “will seek to extradite Vaulin to the United States”, the release said.

The primary method of file sharing right now is through something called “torrents”.

Since then, Kickass Torrents resumed activity online, but you should be very wary of the unofficial sites that pop up after takedowns like this.

Even though the Kickass Torrents mirror exists, there apparently is no forum attached to it, unlike the real KAT website.

Assistant Attorney General Caldwell revealed that Kickass Torrents had so far aided the distribution of over $1 billion in pirated files.

Though the authorities don’t seem to have apprehended the key domain (KAT.ch).

The cybercrimes unit at the Justice Department’s office in Chicago investigated the case. A 48-page criminal complaint filed in Chicago with the U.S. District Court details the lengths to which they went to finally catch up with him. Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Sony Pictures to scrap digital piracy, the government of the United States of America chose to finally take action. The Pirate Bay is now at full operating capacity but it remains to be seen if KAT will be able to do the same once again. According to the statements of the creators of the clone of Kickass torrents, it is concluded that it is impossible to completely remove piracy website from the internet.

Apple also appears to have provided IP addresses, as the complaint says the records Apple coughed “showed that tirm@me.com conducted an iTunes transaction using IP Address 109.86.226.203 on or about July 31, 2015”.