KickassTorrents goes down after alleged founder arrested

KickassTorrents (also known as Kickass Torrents or just KAT) appears to be down. We have had some luck getting it to load, trying both http://kat.cr and https://kat.cr, but in most cases the most popular torrent site in the world simply doesn’t work.
The outage comes soon after the arrest of 30-year-old Artem Vaulin, the alleged founder of KAT who the U.S. will seek to extradite. The Ukrainian was arrested in Poland and has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyr