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Owner of Most-Visited Illegal File-Sharing Website Charged with Criminal Copyright Infringement

U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois (U.S. Department of Justice), July 20, 2016. That the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois brought and announced the KickassTorrents charges against Artem Vaulin, alongside DOJ's Criminal Division and ICE Homeland Security Investigations..

Source type
Prosecutor release
Published
July 20, 2016
Research grade
P1
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Publisher
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois (U.S. Department of Justice)
Published
July 20, 2016
Source type
Prosecutor release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/owner-most-visited-illegal-file-sharing-website-charged-criminal-copyright-infringement
What it supports
That the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois brought and announced the KickassTorrents charges against Artem Vaulin, alongside DOJ's Criminal Division and ICE Homeland Security Investigations.
Dataset id
src_usao_ndil_vaulin_kat_charged

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  • Read via a Wayback capture of 2026-06-01; justice.gov blocks plain HTML fetching.
  • Announcing officials named: U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon (N.D. Ill.), Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell (Criminal Division), Executive Associate Director Peter T. Edge (ICE HSI).

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