The US authorities have detained the alleged owner of the world's largest torrent site after Apple shared the data linked to his iTunes account, data with which federal investigators were able to locate the suspect. As we have been able to read in TorrentFreak, Artem Paulin, owner of KickAss Torrents, was arrested yesterday in Poland accusing him of being behind this torrent platform also known as KAT, which recently surpassed Pirate Bay. In KickAss Torrents we could find practically everything, from the latest chapter of our favorite series, to the latest version of any application outside of Windows or Mac as well as any song or album that has just hit the market.
The US Department of Justice has quickly requested the extradition of 30-year-old Vaulin on charges of copyright infringement and money laundering. The linchpin of this arrest was provided by Apple By delivering the data of the last purchase made in iTunes with which the authorities were able to find out the IP from where it had been made, the same IP used to log into the KickAss Torrents Facebook account.
As we can read in the criminal complaint filed in the Federal Court of Chicago:
The logs provided by Apple showed that tirm@me.com carried out a transaction in iTunes via IP address 109.86.226.203 on July 31, 2015. That same IP address was used to log into the Facebook account of KAT.
KAT operates in 28 languages and offers the latest releases that hit theaters within hours of their release as well as other content with which it obtains significant advertising revenue. The researchers posed as an advertiser in order to find out the bank account of the company used by KAT. The US Department of Justice estimates that KAT's current value is $ 54 million, with annual advertising revenue of between $ 12 million and $ 22 million. KAT has contributed to the distribution of over a billion pirated files and videos.
Where is the privacy of the users that Apple defended. In the case of a murderer, they do not provide information. In this case, he was surely making them lose money is when they do reveal information. It is clear that money is above ethics.
Hello, Scl. I do not think what Apple has done in this case, that goes ahead. That said, entering your own mobile, where you have your private information, has nothing to do with providing iTunes purchase data.
We also do not know if the DoJ knew the email of this user and asked for access to his shopping list. But that has nothing to do with providing photos, contacts and, much less, creating a back door for law enforcement to walk "like Pedro through his house" on our mobile devices. In other words, Apple has offered information that it does have access to and that they have NEVER officially denied. What they have refused is access to personal information of users.
A greeting.
I totally agree with what you mention, Apple provided all the information on the terrorist's mobile that was contained in iCloud, the problem was that the information was out of date since the terrorist turned off said functionality a month before making the attack ... In this case surely they were already following up and asked Apple for the information and they as mentioned before, they will not deny information that interferes with the law but they will not access a device with personal information and they will not modify their OS to do so more prone to hacker attacks at the simple request of the FBI