vissha Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 US Files Charges Against Two More Kickass Torrents Operators The two suspects are still at large, whereabouts unknown Quote The US has filed an official indictment against three operators of the Kickass Torrents (KAT) website in the District Court of Northern Illinois, an indictment dated on Tuesday, August 23, 2016. The document charges three people, Artem Vaulin (aka trim), Ievgen Kutsenko (aka Eugene Kutsenko or trill), and Oleksandr Rabostin (aka Alex Radostin, pioneer, or pio), all Ukrainian nationals. Two of the three suspects are still at large Polish police had already arrested Vaulin at the behest of US authorities last month, and the suspect is currently being held in a Polish prison awaiting extradition. The whereabouts of the other two suspects are unknown, and US authorities will use this indictment to have them arrested. The charges presented in the indictment are for copyright infringement and money laundering. The three ran over ten pirate sites The indictment, which you can read here in a scanned format courtesy of TorrentFreak, paints the three suspects as the masterminds behind a crime ring focused on online piracy. The three are accused of intentionally dodging anti-piracy measures by registering new domains when the originals were taken down, making money by running ads on their websites, and also running a slew of other piracy-focused services besides KAT. This includes sites like leechmonster.com, torcache.net, rolly.com, solarmovie.com, solarmovie.ph, iwatchfilm.com, movie2b.com, hippomovies.com, bino.tv, and moviepro.net. All of these are now down. The vast majority of the above-listed websites are live-streaming and direct-download services, which allowed users to watch movies and TV shows in their browser, or download (copyrighted) content at high speeds. KAT crew also ran SubtitleSource The three are also accused of developing their own BitTorrent client and running subtitlesource.com, a repository of movie subtitles. The indictment also includes a detailed list of payments the three received for the operation of their services, which shows the three profited financially from their operation. The indictment lists as examples of copyrighted material present on the KAT properties movies as The Butler, Batman v Superman, Deadpool, X-Men Apocalypse, Central Intelligence, Warcraft, Now You See Me 2, Jungle Book, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Yes Kickass was a scam they ran a torrent leeching site and they used everyone's uploads at kat to leech and upload everyones uploadz to power there direct streaming sites and making millions of dollars from ads,.. as far they owned any direct download sites i doubt it i dont know of any of these that have closed down since this happen Quote The U.S. Government has followed up its criminal complaint against KickassTorrents with the indictment of three alleged operators of the site. In addition to their involvement with the popular torrent site, they are also linked to other 'pirate' sites including Leechmonster.com, Solarmovie, iWatchfilm.com, Hippomovies.com and Torcache. https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-indicts-three-alleged-kickasstorrents-operators160825/ The other guys most likely are in the Ukraine were they dont have a extradition treaty, with the USA.. https://torrentfreak.com/the-alleged-top-men-behind-kickasstorrents-160826/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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