The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is seeking to extradite Ukrainian national Artem Vaulin who was arrested in Poland Wednesday and is believed to be the man behind Kickass Torrents, the most popular site for peer-to-peer file sharing.
Vaulin, 30, faces two counts of criminal copyright infringement, as well as conspiracy charges relating to copyright and money laundering, U.S. authorities said. The district court in Chicago also ordered the seizure of seven Internet domain names and a bank account belonging to the Ukrainian.
More than 50 million users a month share movies, TV shows, music, video games and computer software on Kickass …read more
Source: Time
