The technology and practice of torrenting isn’t actually illegal, which is where Vaulin and his lawyers firmly stood. Some of the guards told me they torrent.” But putting me in prison isn’t going to help them. “They are just interested in making money. “No, I don’t hate ,” Vaulin had told The Verge. The irony of an iTunes transaction – one of the ways to legally purchase digital music at the time – being responsible for Vaulin’s arrest was not lost to the copyright world. Special agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan, the same investigator who had previously arrested The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, cross-referenced an Apple email and IP address used for an iTunes transaction to the email responsible for updating KickassTorrents’ Facebook page.
The DOJ had linked Vaulin to KickassTorrents through a rather obvious blunder, in retrospect. If someone came to me to tell me the United States was angry with something I do, whatever it was, I would stop.” I was never told that anything I was involved in was against the law.” When I start a business I consult lawyers. The Verge managed to interview him during this time, where he alleged innocence – without directly confirming his involvement with KAT at his lawyer’s orders. It wasn’t the family holiday he had planned to take, and soon he was at the Warsaw-Bialoleka Investigative Detention Center. On his way from Ukraine to Iceland, Artem Vaulin was arrested during a layover in Poland as a result of a US extradition request. Photo: Olga Nikolayeva / The Verge The prosecution Artem Vaulin and his wife Olga Nikolayeva.
On July 20th that year, the US Department of Justice announced it had seized the KickassTorrents domain – now hosted in Croatia as kat.cr – and arrested KAT’s alleged owner. Ireland and Malaysia followed in 2014, blocking the site from national ISPs, a move Portugal matched in 2015. UK and Belgian authorities ordered the blockage of KAT in 2013, around the same time the Motion Picture Association of America forced Google to delist the site from search results.
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