Feds arrested the KickassTorrents owner and seized the domain names

  • 21 July 2016
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July 21, 2016  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

The federal authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind KickassTorrents (KAT) and seized its domains, blocking its operations.

 
According to the US Justice Department, the feds have arrested Artem Vaulin the alleged mastermind behind the BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT). The KickassTorrents website kat.cr is down worldwide and most of KAT domains (kickasstorrents.com, kickass.to, kat.ph, kastatic.com, thekat.tv, kat.cr, kickass.cr)  have been seized by the law enforcement.
 
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Chalk up another score for the Good Guys (& Gals)...Yay! :D
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As usual, it didn't take them long to get the site back up again:

http://www.techhgeeks.com/2016/07/kickass-torrents-is-back-on.html
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So...take the bu#@ers down again! 
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They keep coming back again.  Reminds me of the end of this cartoon :)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfpo8t_holiday-for-drumsticks_shortfilms

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