

One week, I tried to actually look at those, and I stopped after 200 violations of the same." And that is on all AppStores and websites, without actually looking for it. we spot those kinds of VLC fake downloads per dozens per week. Indeed, Kempf told us that this kind of activity is nothing new for the VideoLAN team, saying, ".

We also contacted the developer, Senthilkumar Thangavelu, who also told us he would remove the app. Neowin contacted the VideoLAN team and one of its members, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, told us that they have asked the developer to remove it. Thankfully, this "VLC Media Player 8" app won't be available on the Windows Store for much longer. VideoLAN launched a Kickstarter campaign in late 2012 to get development of the Windows 8 app jump started and ended up with £47,056 from its backers.

As we have reported before, the real VLC Windows 8 app will be a full fledged Modern UI app with a number of features. The other clue is that this app appears to be a very simple media player with a bare bones design.
