The man behind the web’s biggest piracy network has been arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering.

According to CNN Money, 30-year-old Ukranian Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of the world’s largest torrent site Kickass Torrents, was arrested by the United States Government in Poland, where they had requested his extradition.

The Kickass Torrents is a commercial website that enables users to illegally reproduce and distribute hundreds of millions of copyrighted motion pictures, video games, television programs, musical recordings and other electronic media and has being in existence since 2008.

With millions of unique visitors per day, it is now one of the most-used BitTorrent portals online – even bigger than ‘The Pirate Bay’.

Alongside the arrest of the alleged site owner in Poland, a federal court in Chicago has ordered the seizure of Kickass Torrent domain names, in an attempt to close the site down.

In a criminal complaint filed in US District Court in Chicago , Vaulin has been charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement.

The Federal Prosecutor in charge of the case, Zachary T. Fardon said:

“Copyright infringement exacts a large toll, a very human one, on the artists and businesses whose livelihood hinges on their creative inventions.”

Online piracy — essentially copying a digital file and sharing it — sucks revenue out of media publishing companies, which pay fees to the artists who create the work.

The U.S. government will ask the Polish government to extradite Vaulin to the United States, where he will be prosecuted. He’s accused of operating a website that allowed people to share movies, video games, television shows and music worth more than $1 billion.

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Ghana’s very own undefeated Boxer, Braimah Kamok popularly known as Bukom Banku has finally turned an Evangelist?

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The superstar boxer has been in the news of late, from his bleaching controversy to having a lot of wives, to beating his wives and fondling underage breast.

Apparently, Banku didn’t spare anyone who tried to cross or judge him about his bleaching ways….He slammed them all…and then all of a sudden he announced he has quit bleaching, but went ahead and danced naked in public, rocked eyelashes during a radio interview.

He even painted his face black and here is the most recent one – he has now turned evangelist.

Bukom Banku was seen preaching on the street. It is believed he was influenced by his gospel friend Mclerk, pictured above with him, the same brain behind his decision to stop bleaching, More photos:

According to a Breaking News on CNN, there is an ongoing “shooting spree” early Friday evening at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany.

So far, three people have been confirmed dead, according to German police.

Police spokeswoman, Claudia Kvenzel, later told CNN that the shooting at the Munich shopping mall is over, and are asking people to avoid the area, adding that she had no further information.

Lynn Stein, who said she works at the Jack Wolfskin store in the mall, told CNN that the shooter was inside the mall.

“I heard several shots,” Stein said. “(I) was just going to buy something while my coworker was still in the shop.

“People started running. I went outside as well; more people running outside. I think I heard more shots. Then it sounded like he went to the parking house next to the mall — several shots there,” she said

Reports speak of one or more attackers. Some shopworkers are reportedly unable to leave the building.

It is still unclear whether this is a terrorist attack and there is no information about a possible motive for the attack, as traffic in Munich has come to a standstill.

TV images showed dozens of emergency vehicles outside the mall. The shopping center is next to the Munich Olympic stadium, where the Palestinian militant group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and eventually killed them during the 1972 Olympic Games.

This is a developing story, we’ll surely keep you updated as soon as more details are made available.