Court case
United States v. Artem Vaulin
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Docket 1:16-cr-00438.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 1:16-cr-00438
- Linked takedowns
- 1
- People named
- 1
Case record
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 1:16-cr-00438
- Status
- Pending and inactive; placed on the court's fugitive calendar in October 2020 after the defendant left Poland in violation of his bail conditions. No conviction.
- Status verified
- August 23, 2026
- Dataset id
- case_us_v_vaulin
The status line was checked against the public record on August 23, 2026. Proceedings may have moved since.
What this case entry is.
This entry records a court docket the audit located and checked: the case name, the court, the docket number where one is published, and the status the cited sources establish. It is not a summary of proceedings and it does not stand in for the docket itself.
A case listed here does not establish that anyone named on this page is guilty. Charges are accusations only. Where a cited source records a conviction or a guilty plea, that outcome is attributed to the source and this index asserts nothing beyond it.
Sources for this entry were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026.
Takedowns linked to this case
1 takedown record in this index is linked to this case.
- Kickass Torrents takedown . Piracy and IP, July 2016
People named in this case
1 person in this index is recorded as named in this case.
- Artem Vaulin . Also known as: tirm
Sources
4 sources support this entry. Each one is listed with the role it was relied on for.
- U.S. Authorities Charge Owner of Most-Visited Illegal File-Sharing Website with Copyright Infringement , Primary source . US DOJ, July 20, 2016 . https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/us-authorities-charge-owner-most-visited-illegal-file-sharing-website-copyright-infringement
- United States v. Martono , Primary source . United States District Court for the Northern District of California, June 17, 2020 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17259009/united-states-v-martono/
- United States v. Vaulin , Primary source . U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, July 8, 2016 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4508372/united-states-v-vaulin/
- Microsoft Corporation v. Does, No. 2:11-cv-00222 (W.D. Wash.) docket record , Supporting source . CourtListener RECAP . https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=%22Rustock%22&type=r