After a fairly long hiatus and a huge number of clones popping up in it’s place, the original Kickass Torrents is finally back. The website has been revived by the original crew, and is using news user database and safe elements. Initially started back in July, KATcr.co was a community site that did not provide any torrent links. However, now it has been made live as the complete Kickass Torrents website, and is being overseen by a larger staff. The website is KATcr.co, and is similar to the original site’s look and feel. It also has the original site’s admins and member coming back in full support. The site has been rebuilt and increased security features have been added for user safety. The staff member who were part of the lawsuit that saw the website go own in the fir...
Popular torrent website and archive, Kickass Torrents was shut down on Wednesday, 20th of July, after Unites States authorities charged and arrested the owner of the website in Poland. Here’s the official statement from the U.S Justice Department: Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, was arrested today in Poland and is charged by criminal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of criminal copyright infringement. The United States will seek to extradite Vaulin to the United States. “Vaulin is charged with running today’s most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrig...