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Title: How Apple and Facebook helped to take down KickassTorrents Post by: HCK on July 25, 2016, 04:05:15 pm How Apple and Facebook helped to take down KickassTorrents
<article> <section class="page"> <p> It turns out that a couple of purchases on iTunes helped to bring down the mastermind behind KickassTorrents, one of the most popular websites for illegal file sharing.</p><p> Apple and Facebook were among the companies that handed over data to the U.S. in its investigation of 30-year-old Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of the torrent directory service. Vaulin was arrested (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3098408/legal/us-seizes-domains-of-kickasstorrents-sites-owner-arrested.html) in Poland on Wednesday, and U.S. authorities seized seven of the site’s domains, all of which are now offline.</p><p> KickassTorrents was accused of enabling digital piracy for years, and investigators said it was the 69th most visited website on the entire Internet. It offered a list of torrent files for downloading bootleg movies, music, computer games and more, even as governments across the world tried to shut it down.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3098872/legal/how-apple-and-facebook-helped-to-take-down-kickasstorrents.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How Apple and Facebook helped to take down KickassTorrents (http://www.macworld.com/article/3098872/legal/how-apple-and-facebook-helped-to-take-down-kickasstorrents.html#tk.rss_all) |