Among the misadventures of the Web, Libération has told what happened to France 2 and France 3. The two public channels are represented on the Net but with ".fr" (france2.fr and france3.fr). However, they don't own the overall of their domain names, and particularly the ones with ".com". France2.com and France3.com were registered by a Russian and until now all attempts to get the two names back have been unsuccessful. The matter didn't get more attention since the websites were not operated.
However, everything changed a few days ago as it is written in the article "France 2 and France 3 trapped by pornography". This is because around April 15th, the two domain names were sold out to a South Korean specialised in porno websites. And after that, it was awful! When you click on france2.com or france3.com, you get a website which has nothing to do with the ethic of French public channels and with the real websites of the two channels at the following addresses: france2.fr france3.fr. Emergency interim proceedings were instituted. However, on an international scale, it is quite long. And during this time, the X-hackers make the most of the fame of France 2 and France 3…
Libé: the X-hackers of France 2 and France 3.com
Jean-Pierre Largillet2 min de lecture