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UbiSoft Goof Lets Porn URL Into Rainbow Six

Posted by simoniker on from the linkiness-next-to-godliness dept.

Thanks to CNN Money for their article revealing that an enterprising webmaster has purchased a URL featured in UbiSoft's tactical action Xbox title Rainbow Six 3, and constructed a pornographic website hub around it. According to the story, a "level set in a garage with posters adorning the wall" features a specific website address, and "Texan Tony Ashcraft was one of the early buyers of the game and noted the URL as he played. Thinking the link might feature ancillary information on the game, he told me he typed it into his browser, only to find no one owned the domain. On Nov. 22, he bought it and immediately filled it with porn links." Ashcraft, interviewed for the piece, says: "My intentions were to try to build up traffic and then sell the domain... If they ask me just to change it... they would have to have a pretty compelling reason. If they were interested in buying the domain, then we could talk."

3 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. What an asshole. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Period.

  2. Stupid Slashdot Titles by Jonny+290 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They didn't let a porn URL slip into a game, you morons.

    Some slimebag bought a URL in the game.

    How about some truth in journalism? Your title implicates the software company as liable for sullying their perfect wonderful game with something evil like porn. They didn't have a fucking thing to do with it.

    gg slashdot. fucked up news for nerds, edited stuff that matters to fanbois.

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    Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...
  3. Re:All right boys and girls ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... the word of the article is ... Capitolism. And the moral of the story, always check your links before you release them to the general public!

    Not to mention spellchecking your posts before hitting submit?