US arrests alleged owner of popular torrent siteThe music industry wants to stop Australians using Kickass Torrents to pirate music. The alleged founder of one of the world's most notorious illegal file-sharing sites has been arrested in Poland on Wednesday, according to US officials. It also alleges that the site routinely ignored requests to remove links that enabled visitors to download pirated material. The complaint estimated that the site's massive traffic brought in annual advertising revenue of between US$12.5 million and US$22.3 million. The US is seeking to extradite Vaulin, and the charges he faces carry a combined maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

Source: Stuff July 21, 2016 04:07 UTC