'Owner' of file-sharing website charged with copyright infringement

US prosecutors have charged the alleged owner of one of the world's largest file-sharing websites with distributing millions of copies of copyrighted films, music, video games, TV shows, e-books and software valued at more than one billion dollars.

In a criminal complaint unsealed this week in Chicago, where some of the Kickass Torrents site's servers were located, prosecutors said Hollywood films that were legally available only in cinemas at the time often appeared on the site. Newer films on the site, also known as KAT, included Captain America: Civil War and Independence Day: Resurgence.