Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torrent site

Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by Cenk on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:44AM (#12142778)

>Using similar tools, Homeland Security investigators also performed something called a WHOIS lookup on a domain that redirected people to the main KAT site. A WHOIS search can provide the name, address, email and phone number of a website registrant. In the case of kickasstorrents.biz, that was Artem Vaulin from Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Wow, he put his real name in the WHOIS records?

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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by herbst on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:06AM (#12142850)

now i can only think this is only a sock puppet who got cought.

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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by zzzcpan on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:01AM (#12143029)

Possibly, especially given how easy it is to get a sock puppet, but not necessarily. If I remember correctly KAT was even hosted in Ukraine at the beginning and no one in Ukraine was really hiding back then.

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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by herbst on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:08AM (#12143056)

Thats a good point and relativates it a bit. Afaik also privacy protection was rather expensive and rare, not as today for $2 (or even free) with any new domain.

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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by Cenk on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:01PM (#12144361)

But could he not just have put any name into the WHOIS?

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