Via 9to5Mac: NSFW: Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with bug displaying escort/pornography sites.
It appears Apple’s launch of iTunes music and movies in Russia is running into a bit of controversy with several Russian users noticing advertising for pornography websites and escort services in the iTunes’ movies section. As highlighted in the many tweets below, and reported by local blog iPhones.ru, a section titled “more films in different languages” is displaying the pornographic content. iPhones.ru speculated it might relate to an issue with temporary xxx placeholder links (machine translation):
Personally I could have predicted the headline:
“In Soviet Russia, Porn blocks Apple.”
This is completely hilarious.