According to data provided by Appfiguresthe app dedicated to film piracy Whom recorded a huge number of downloads on App Storeso much so that it has beaten legitimate alternatives such as Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max e Peacock.
The software in question, in fact, has arrived fourth position in the entertainment app rankinginstead conquering the twelfth place as for the general ranking of downloads on the App Store. Once this data was published, Apple intervened by excluding Kimi from its digital store.
The app in question, in addition to transmitting pirated content, passed itself off as legitimate by claiming to offer a “game” to test users’ eyesight. In reality, once opened, Kimi offered copyrighted video content, although the content was often provided with a video quality far from high. In terms of internal structure, however, the app proved to be quite functional, with a rather efficient filter search system.
The film piracy app Kimi has been bypassing App Store filters for months
Kimi is a software that appeared on the App Store last September, always remaining in the shadows and with a relatively low number of users.
At the beginning of this month, however, the sudden increase in downloads caught the attention of professionals, with a peak of 65.000 download between the last one Sunday and Monday which was followed, the following Tuesday, by its removal from the Apple store.
The Cupertino company told the site Gizmodo as the false statement of the Kimi developers regarding its use is a clear one violation of the guidelines of the App Store and, for this reason, it was possible to immediately block the app.
Certainly, the fact that Kimi was a film piracy app capable of bypassing App Store filters does not help Apple’s image. Despite the team of 500 expertscapable of examining more than 100,000 apps per weekit seems clear that this control system is far from infallible.