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U.S. seizes domains of KickassTorrents, site's owner arrested

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The U.S. has dealt a major blow to KickassTorrents, one of the world’s most popular illegal files-sharing websites.</p><p>
On Wednesday, law enforcement in Poland arrested the alleged owner of the site, 30 year-old Artem Vaulin of Ukraine.</p><p>
He's been charged with criminal copyright infringement, and the U.S. Department of Justice said it was seeking  (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-authorities-charge-owner-most-visited-illegal-file-sharing-website-copyright-infringement)to extradite him to the U.S. The DOJ also seized several domains associated with the service, although the main site appeared to be still running Wednesday afternoon.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3098408/legal/us-seizes-domains-of-kickasstorrents-sites-owner-arrested.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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