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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