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Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store
Before it disappeared on Tuesday, Kimi enabled iPhone owners to stream illegal bootlegs of popular movies like "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer."
Without having to pay for anything or log into any kind of account, iPhone owners could previously use Kimi to browse a wide selection of bootlegs for popular movies and TV shows. Poor Things was included in a grainy, pixelated state, but a high-quality version of Killers of the Flower Moon was on Kimi to stream, although an intrusive ad for online casinos was splashed across the top. Security reporter Andy Greenberg wrote, “With Popcorn Time, the complexity of BitTorrent search engines, trackers, clients, seeds, decompression, playback, and storage is reduced to a single click.” It’s unconfirmed how exactly Kimi was providing the streams, but the process of watching bootlegs was definitely simplified for users—just download the smartphone app and press Play.
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