I haven't made any posts lately and that is mainly because I didn't get time. But, worry not because I am back with another hot post for today. Sorry if You guys were expecting a 1060 Post, I will cover that in detail after 1st August when we have comparisons of Aftermarket 1060 and 480 Cards.
So coming back to the topic, as the title suggests KickAss Torrents the leading Torrent Website has been shut down and it'd domains have been seized and the alleged founder Artem Vaulin has been Arrested in Poland. As of now no domain, (including the proxy ones) seems to be working.
Now how this was busted is rather hilarious. Vaulin the Mastermind behind the largest illegal torrenting operation hid in plain sites. Just like every other regular Joe he used Facebook and Apple (WTF) email.
After billions of DMCA complaints Feds started investigation which led them to KickAss Torrents Facebook page. When Facebook was presented with a Warrant it took them no time to give them the tirm@me.com which email registered to the KAT Page.
With the email address they went to apple the owners of me.com who again took no time to give them the IP of the user of the email which was recorded in the iTunes purchases made from that account.
With the IP in hand tracing the BitCoin account to where all the money from KAT Ads came was a no brainer for feds.
Now with solid evidence the Physical Location of the IP was traced and BOOM goes the $1 Billion Dollar Business.
Artem Vaulin, a 30 year old Ukranian was arrested from his residence in Poland on 21 July 2016. He may face upto 20 years in jail and $1 Billion Fine (WTF he ain't Bill Gates). The Authorities in various countries have been informed to take down the domains.
On their defense, KAT is saying that they just host and provide links to .torrent data and they are not the ones responsible for any Copyrighted material being distributed. Which is technically right.
Now in my opinion even if Artem Vaulin is punished and jailed or even hanged (who knows?) the Torrenting won't stop. KAT will come back with different domains, owners and content, just like Yify Torrents Shut down and YTS.ag came. If not, other websites will rise and something like this wouldn't stop.
Before ending this, I would like to give all of you a tip. Don't ever, ever use Facebook and (goddamn) Apple mail when you are running world's largest Piracy Ring. DeepWeb is for people like you.
This is pretty much it guys. I will keep you posted with KAT news as it happens. You can also check out more about the KAT Bust in the links below.
Also, I have amazing stuff planned, RX 470 and RX 460 News, GTX 1060 Benchmarks vs RX 480, GTX 1050 and other awesome Tech stuff. So stay tuned for that and More. Share the Blog with your friends, follow the blog or comment down below what kind of content you want.
Links-
http://goo.gl/662xX3
http://goo.gl/hEjJjC
http://goo.gl/qGLqeb
~APex
So coming back to the topic, as the title suggests KickAss Torrents the leading Torrent Website has been shut down and it'd domains have been seized and the alleged founder Artem Vaulin has been Arrested in Poland. As of now no domain, (including the proxy ones) seems to be working.
Now how this was busted is rather hilarious. Vaulin the Mastermind behind the largest illegal torrenting operation hid in plain sites. Just like every other regular Joe he used Facebook and Apple (WTF) email.
After billions of DMCA complaints Feds started investigation which led them to KickAss Torrents Facebook page. When Facebook was presented with a Warrant it took them no time to give them the tirm@me.com which email registered to the KAT Page.
With the email address they went to apple the owners of me.com who again took no time to give them the IP of the user of the email which was recorded in the iTunes purchases made from that account.
With the IP in hand tracing the BitCoin account to where all the money from KAT Ads came was a no brainer for feds.
Now with solid evidence the Physical Location of the IP was traced and BOOM goes the $1 Billion Dollar Business.
Artem Vaulin, a 30 year old Ukranian was arrested from his residence in Poland on 21 July 2016. He may face upto 20 years in jail and $1 Billion Fine (WTF he ain't Bill Gates). The Authorities in various countries have been informed to take down the domains.
On their defense, KAT is saying that they just host and provide links to .torrent data and they are not the ones responsible for any Copyrighted material being distributed. Which is technically right.
Now in my opinion even if Artem Vaulin is punished and jailed or even hanged (who knows?) the Torrenting won't stop. KAT will come back with different domains, owners and content, just like Yify Torrents Shut down and YTS.ag came. If not, other websites will rise and something like this wouldn't stop.
Before ending this, I would like to give all of you a tip. Don't ever, ever use Facebook and (goddamn) Apple mail when you are running world's largest Piracy Ring. DeepWeb is for people like you.
This is pretty much it guys. I will keep you posted with KAT news as it happens. You can also check out more about the KAT Bust in the links below.
Also, I have amazing stuff planned, RX 470 and RX 460 News, GTX 1060 Benchmarks vs RX 480, GTX 1050 and other awesome Tech stuff. So stay tuned for that and More. Share the Blog with your friends, follow the blog or comment down below what kind of content you want.
Links-
http://goo.gl/662xX3
http://goo.gl/hEjJjC
http://goo.gl/qGLqeb
~APex
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