HardcoreModz
A few weeks ago, the funniest and greatest example of trolling hit the
internet ever when someone had the balls to redirect ModernWarfare3.com
to Battlefield 3′s website. Activision, naturally, was upset and has
been trying to find out who did it. Well, Bobby Kotick and crew can stop
their manhunt, as GoDaddy, via their “Domains by Proxy” hiding service,
has outed the man who snagged the domain from Activision.
That man, in question, is Anthony Abraham from Miami, Florida. His
trolling and obvious dislike of Activision has landed him in more hot
water than he’d expected. Activision’s filed a domain name dispute with
the National Arbitration Forum, and now that they know who Abraham is,
he is pretty screwed. At the moment, the ModernWarfare3.com URL just
brings up an error, as opposed to the Monty Python spoof video that was
on through the weekend.
While all of this is pretty frigging
funny, Activision has kind of brought this on themselves. They knew good
and well that with the success of Modern Warfare 2 that there’d be a
Modern Warfare 3, Infinity Ward issues be damned. It’ll be interesting
to see what happens to Abraham in the end. In the meantime, I’d like to
award Mr. Abraham with the “Troll of the Year” award.
Of course, even with all this trolling, it won’t matter until
Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 duke it out on October 25 and
November 8, respectively, of this year.
http://www.ripten.com/2011/07/19/godaddy-rats-out-the-modernwarfare3-com-owner/
