The piracy app Kimi, which let users watch stolen movies and TV shows on their iPhones, briefly surpassed streaming heavyweights on Apple’s App Store rankings before being removed by the company ...

Apple removed Kimi, a platform that showed pirated movies and shows for free, from its app store.; The app ranked higher than Netflix's app and got over 100 reviews before it got pulled, per Wired ...

Kimi isn't the only illegal app that has recently snuck onto the App Store. A LastPass copycat dubbed "LassPass" made it onto the App Store before later being removed.

The Kimi app’s saga is emblematic of a new resurgence in online piracy. A serious challenge for rights holders and movie and TV studios, piracy is once again on the rise.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earlier this week, a vision-testing app shot up the charts on the iOS App Store. Kimi ...

Over the past week, an app called Kimi curiously outranked well-known streaming services, such as Netflix and Prime Video, in the App Store's list of top free entertainment apps. Now, Apple has ...

The Kimi app, which had been lightly masquerading as an app for testing your vision for months, was holding the number eight spot in the trending free entertainment apps section earlier today. It ...

Apple has removed an app named Kimi from its App Store. This app which posed as a vision testing app was reportedly a platform which allowed users to watch pirated movies on their smartphones.