{"id":12872,"date":"2011-07-12T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-commandeers-modern-warfare-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12872-battlefield-commandeers-modern-warfare-url","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield commandeers Modern Warfare URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the www.modernwarfare3.com URL was owned by Activision, best get thinking again, recruit.<\/p>\n<p>This is war, and the first rule of war is to know your enemy. Which is only partly relevant &ndash; further down the list, somewhere in the mid-nineties or so, is the rule that you should secure potential enemy positions before they do. That&rsquo;s the one we&rsquo;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;d already hit the link above, you&rsquo;d see that URL redirects to Battlefield 3&rsquo;s official site. TROLLED!<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not actually clear at this moment whether EA, DICE, or some rogue Battlefield Defence Force is behind this pre-emptive strike, although investigation has turned up that the URL was registered privately in 2009 already.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5820226\/what-the-hells-going-on-with-modernwarfare3com\" target=\"_blank\"> Kotaku<\/a>, the site originally featured some pretty standard &ldquo;BATTLEFIELD R BETTERER THAN CODFAIL LOL&rdquo;-type commentary, as well as an &ldquo;anti-Call of Duty video&rdquo;, whatever that might have been. Apparently some people still think they can tell everybody else how to have fun.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15582-EA-owns-ModernWarfare3.com-LOL?p=473998#post473998\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss EA squatting on Modern Warfare website<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AREA SECURED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}