Russian iTunes offers smut video links
Apple's iTunes music store launched in Russia this week, complete with links to video smut. Russian blog iphones.ru reports (through Google Translate) that when local users access the iTunes Store and seek out "More films in different languages" they see links to services such as “Ladyboys.xxx”. The blog speculates the links …
No, No, It should be called...
THIGHtunes or THAItunes, hehehe....
In Soviet Russia...
...smut find you!
Mine's the one with the Yakov Smirnoff VHS in the pocket.
Or does it...
More likely than not the guy has some malware redirecting his DNS requests, or this is all just a marketing trick for the .xxx domain.
Since the content doesn't mention Apple at all I'm surprised these options weren't considered.
Why is it that…
…Russia gets a superior iTunes servicing?
I don't get it - Minnesota Strippers? ! I mean the Russkies are hardly what you would call a a trousorially repressed nation, it's not like they don't get enough of that kind of thing at home.... maybe it counts as "exotic" ? ;)
My money's on a DNS/"spammy-marketing" problem of some sort as well :P
What OS does the dude use? Arrr-me hearties+iTunes, I'll be bound. Linux bit of a hard sell there as there is no challenge in getting it for free..... MS clearly don't mind. Programmers there like FOSS though.
Has he got the iTunes trojan fix yet? ;)
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/11/apple-took-3-years-to-fix-finfisher-trojan-hole/
A suggestion was that they were using http://xxx.xxx as a holding / example url that "accidentally" went live.
Sort of makes sense.
Oh shit...
* goes into server to s/xxx\.xxxx/yyy\.yyy/g
Nicely played .xxx registrar, nicely played...
