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Battlefield Hijacks Modern Warfare Website
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Posted by Donster on: 2011-07-12 17:06:26 211
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Cheeky redirect dumps Modern Warfare fans behind enemy lines
By Tom Pakinkis @ CVG
EA may have launched the latest attack on FPS rival Activision, by picking up a Modern Warfare 3 URL and redirecting it to its own Battlefield website.
'ModernWarfare3.com' is a domain you would have thought publishing giant Activision would have secured years ago, but COD fans will be bamboozled this morning when they are taken to the homepage of the series' biggest FPS rival should they use the URL directly.
Investigation reveals that the Modern Warfare 3 URL was actually registered way back in 2009 privately, so the owner's details are not public.
That means there's no way of telling whether EA is actually behind the redirect or whether it's all the work of some cheeky Battlefield 3 fan.
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