Kim Dotcom’s Lawyer to defend detained KickassTorrents Founder

By Ryan De Souza

KickassTorrents‘ owner Artem Vaulin has hired Ira Rothken as his

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Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents

Here’s the story of how it was done. First, a fake ad on torrent listings linked the site to a Latvian bank account, an e-mail address, and a Facebook page. Using basic website-tracking services, Der-Yeghiayan was able to uncover (via a reverse DNS search) the hosts of seven apparent KAT website domains: kickasstorrents.com, kat.cr, kickass.to, kat.ph, kastatic.com, thekat.tv and kickass.cr…. Continue reading Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents

KickassTorrents’ Mirrors Appear online with Petition for Artem Vaulin Release

By Ryan De Souza

KAT is dead; long live KAT by virtue of two

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How Apple and Facebook Helped US to Arrest Kickass Torrents’ Owner

By Ryan De Souza

Kickass Torrents’ owner Artem Vaulin has been arrested but the way

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Alleged Kickass Torrents owner arrested, site taken down

Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old Ukrainian that is believed to be the creator and owner of Kickass Torrents, currently the most popular and most visited illegal file-sharing website, has been arrested in Poland on Wednesday. On the same day, US authorities have seized domain names associated with the website – KAT is currently inaccessible – and have charged Vaulin with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to commit money … More Continue reading Alleged Kickass Torrents owner arrested, site taken down

Fake gaming torrents lead to potentially unwanted applications

PUA downloaders are disguising themselves as torrents for pirated copies of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and The Witcher 3 to install multiple different PUAs on users’ computers.

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KickassTorrents Becomes First Torrent Site to Introduce Two-Factor Authentication

By Agan Uzunovic

KickassTorrents add Two-Factor Authentication feature, vows to protect users’ account

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