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](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/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](https://takedownindex.org/people/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](https://takedownindex.org/sources/us-doj-u-s-authorities-charge-owner-of-most-visited-illegal-file-sharing-website), 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](https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/us-authorities-charge-owner-most-visited-illegal-file-sharing-website-copyright-infringement) - [United States v. Martono](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-district-court-for-the-northern-district-of-california-united-stat), 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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17259009/united-states-v-martono/) - [United States v. Vaulin](https://takedownindex.org/sources/u-s-district-court-for-the-northern-district-of-illinois-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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4508372/united-states-v-vaulin/) - [Microsoft Corporation v. Does, No. 2:11-cv-00222 (W.D. Wash.) docket record](https://takedownindex.org/sources/courtlistener-recap-microsoft-corporation-v-does-no-2-11-cv-00222-w-d-wash-docke), Supporting source. CourtListener RECAP. [https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=%22Rustock%22&type=r](https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=%22Rustock%22&type=r) [All court cases](https://takedownindex.org/cases)