Oops, Apple approved another illegal streaming app
The French-language app shows new movies like Terrifier 3 and Venom: The Last Dance. | Image: Thomas Ricker / The Verge
Another illegal streaming app made its way to the App Store for a short while — but it only surfaced pirated films for people in certain regions outside the US, including France, Canada, and the Netherlands.
Though Apple has since removed the app, the App Store listing for “Univer Note” presented the app as a productivity platform that can “easily help you record every day’s events and plan your time.” However, for users in certain countries, the app showed a collection of pirated movies, such as Venom: The Last Dance, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Terrifier 3. Options within the app were labeled in French, while films streamed in their original language with French subtitles or dubbing.
Anyone who downloaded the app in an unsupported region,…