Foreign "fast play" curtain call: KickassTorrents operators were arrested, domain names were seized-KickassTorrents, piracy, the seed-IT information

United States Department of Justice, which has succeeded in arresting KickassTorrents BT download site founder and operator of Artem Vaulin, and the initiation of proceedings. It is reported that Artem Vaulin today (July 20) in Poland was arrested, United States informed Poland requests extradition. Vaulin now faces two counts of copyright infringement charges, one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement charges and a suspected money-laundering charges. All current Web site domain name had been seized, also have been unable to access the Web site.

United States Department of Justice Criminal Division Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said in a statement: Vaulin is responsible for running the most visited in the world of illegal file-sharing sites. The site needs responsible for the more than 1 billion dollars worth of pirated files. He said: "in order to avoid accountability, Vaulin relies on servers around the world, and continually due to the transfer of proceedings in the domain name. He was in Poland were arrested again, cyber-criminals can escape for a while, but ultimately can not escape justice. ”

BT seed site has long been that they comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and thus under the protection of the safe harbor provisions. Because KickassTorrents website allows users to provide links to pirated content, and therefore claimed that these websites not responsible for user's freedom of action. However, regulators said Vaulin tend to use when running the website "lengthy requirements" bypassed the removal request.

Ars Technica writes: when Hollywood film studios or other intellectual property owner requests to remove copyrighted content on the site link, KickassTorrents always obscure and confusing requirements for refuse removal. These requirements include the ownership of the copyright certificate and also relate to the content is a genuine legal. But by the time responding to these demands, KickassTorrents seems to never show the request which is not sufficient.

Federal testimony also revealed that KickassTorrents more than $ 16 million in advertising revenue this year.

国外“快播”谢幕：KickassTorrents运营者被逮捕，域名遭查封 - KickassTorrents,盗版,种子 - IT资讯

美国司法部表示，其已成功逮捕BT下载网站KickassTorrents的创始人兼运营者Artem Vaulin，并预备发起诉讼。据悉，Artem Vaulin今日（7月20日）在波兰被警方逮捕，美国已通知波兰方面要求引渡。Vaulin目前面临着两项侵犯版权指控，一项串谋侵犯版权指控以及一项涉嫌洗钱的指控。目前网站的所有域名已经被查封，网站也已无法访问。

美国司法部刑事部门首席检察官助理Caldwell在一份声明中称：Vaulin负责运行世界上访问量最大的非法文件共享网站。该网站需要对价值超过10亿美元的盗版侵权文件负责。他说：“为了逃避追究责任，Vaulin依赖于分布在世界各地的服务器，并不断地由于诉讼转移他的域名。他在波兰被捕再次说明，网络罪犯可以逃避一时，但终究不能逃避正义。”

BT种子网站长期以来一直认为他们符合《数字千年版权法》，因此也受其安全港条款的保护。因为类似KickassTorrents这样的网站只允许用户提供盗版内容链接，并因此声称这些网站不对用户的行为自由负责。然而，监管机构却表示Vaulin运行网站时往往使用“冗长的要求”绕过撤除请求。

Ars Technica写到：当好莱坞的电影工作室或其他知识产权持有人要求删除网站上的版权内容的链接时，KickassTorrents总是以晦涩且混乱的要求为理由拒绝撤除。这些要求包括版权所有权的证明以及同时要求涉及的内容是合法正版的。但当回应这些诉求的时候，KickassTorrents似乎从未表明过这些请求哪一个是不充分的。

联邦证词还透露，KickassTorrents今年有超过1600万美元的广告收入。