WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The complaint alleges that KAT receives more than 50 million unique visitors per month and is estimated to be the 69th most frequently visited website on the Internet, according to the release.
"Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, was arrested today in Poland and is charged by criminal complaint," the release said on Wednesday. "The United States will seek to extradite Vaulin" to face trial.
According to the complaint, Vaulin’s Kickass Torrents (KAT) website has consistently made movies available for downloading even though they were still in theaters.
KAT also distributed hundreds of millions of movies, video games, television programs, musical programs and other electronic media worth more than $1 billion since 2008, the release explained.
