
"We believe that the extradition request lacks merit," Rothken said. Torrent files are used by Internet users to download relatively large files like films from a network of other users. Vaulin's lawyer, Ira Rothken told Reuters his client would appeal on the grounds that so-called torrent files cannot constitute a criminal infringement of copyright. justice authorities," the District Court in Warsaw said in a statement seen by Reuters on Wednesday. "It is legally admissible to hand over the citizen of Ukraine, Artem V., to U.S. Vaulin, who has been in custody in Poland since last July, denies any wrongdoing.

The indictment stated that for financial gain Vaulin's peer-to-peer file-sharing website, Kickass Torrents (KAT), had distributed since 2008 copyrighted works such as last year's film "Captain America: Civil War".
