Father finds porn on his son's Christmas 3DS

[HYHYBT]

My only question while reading this is who the hell watches porn on a 3DS?

I've seen porn for the SNES.

[Gravekeeper]

There's porn for the Atari.

It's Rule 34; Subsection 3c)
If a medium exists, there is porn for it.

[Sarah Valentine]

But was it porn porn or *3D* porn taken with the 3DS's vid cam? That could be somewhat traumatizing if the 3D slider was at max ;p

I know this is gonna sound really bad but I couldn't help but laugh when I read your comment.

[DGoddess]

http://www.businessinsider.com/gamestop-porn-2012-12

Link for the haters of videos such as I.

Pathetic that Game Stop didn't reset it. It doesn't take much effort and that's super freaking lazy not to do it.

They said the five year old is now traumatized. Kid probably has no freaking clue as to what he saw. Gross exaggeration looking for sympathy.

That pretty much sums up what I think on the matter.

Fail on both sides here.

[Peppergirl]

Oh please. Good god.

Sure, most of the fault falls on GS for not wiping it - but that kid didn't even know what he saw. 'Traumatized'? Give me a freaking break.

It could have been easily and quietly resolved with GS without all of the drama.

[wolfie]

Even if it was first noticed Christmas morning after giving it to the 5-year-old, the father could have avoided traumatizing him. After all, the kid probably wouldn't recognize what he saw.

Father: "Oops! Looks like it's not working properly - I'll need to take it back to Game Stop tomorrow to get it fixed. Better to shut it off now, so that they can't say that it broke when you played with it. Sorry about that, but these things happen."

My first bike had issues that required replacement (couldn't even be put together), and I didn't freak out. Sometimes stuff doesn't work and needs to be fixed.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbc-news/50304667/#50304667

Fail on both sides I think. Game Stop didn't reformat the system as was their policy, and father should have double checked, and could have quietly gotten it resolved without bringing too much attention to the issue.

I agree. However, a couple of points.

1. With the high demand for the 3DS, it's entirely possible that one came in, was destined to be wiped, the others ran out and so the store pulled that one without thinking. After all, we know how pushy customers can be.

2. The father saying that his son is scarred for life. Frankly with a brand new 3ds and the games that Gamestop gave in order to apologize for the mistake...the kid would not have remembered his 3DS having porn for more than a week tops. He'd be too busy trying to get that [insert name of hard-to-find pokemon here] to send that to long-term memory.

The fact that Daddy made such a big deal about it means that it'll more likely to stick as a result.

[lordlundar]

I agree. However, a couple of points.

1. With the high demand for the 3DS, it's entirely possible that one came in, was destined to be wiped, the others ran out and so the store pulled that one without thinking. After all, we know how pushy customers can be.

Moot point. The systems aren't supposed to be wiped in store. When they're pawned to the store, the staff there send them to a distribution center where they're wiped then redistributed to the stores to be relatively even amounts. Units pawned in are not even prepared for resale immediately. A non sale inventory tag is applied to the unit for pick up.

If the unit was not sent out, then the staff intentionally bypassed procedures to sell it.

[Rapscallion]

Am I the only one to see the thread title and think about how lucky that dad is?

Rapscallion

[TheHuckster]

Am I the only one to see the thread title and think about how lucky that dad is?

I dunno, it seems like an awfully small screen. I mean, even DD cups probably are only as big as your pinkie tip on that device.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Moot point. The systems aren't supposed to be wiped in store. When they're pawned to the store, the staff there send them to a distribution center where they're wiped then redistributed to the stores to be relatively even amounts. Units pawned in are not even prepared for resale immediately. A non sale inventory tag is applied to the unit for pick up.

If the unit was not sent out, then the staff intentionally bypassed procedures to sell it.

Doubly moot. My second point still stands more-so than the first. Had everyone nod raised a stink...the incident would have been forgotten in short order.

Most parents quickly learn that the best way to make a child forget something they've heard or seen is to not make a big deal of it.

Case in point, porn on Cable Channels. My oldest was channel surfing and saw that one of the Pay-Per-View channels was unscrambled. Rather odd as we didn't have a set-top descrambler since we didn't have any premium channels nor were interested in most PPV offerings. So she saw fucking one night. She told us what was happening and asked what she saw. We simply explained that it was Sex and that it was something for adults to watch.

She didn't even ask any more questions beyond that and very quickly became distracted by the movie we rented for her to watch as she went to bed.

We let the kids stay up and watch (or at least attempt to) a movie in bed as long as they are quiet.

While she slept I removed that channel from the TV's autotuner and that was that.

Had this father done similar (letting the kid revel in his new 3DS and all the games, by the second or third rare Pokemon that kid wouldn't likely remember a damn thing.

[lordlundar]

Doubly moot. My second point still stands more-so than the first. Had everyone nod raised a stink...the incident would have been forgotten in short order.

Oh don't get me wrong. This reads to me very much as a pre-emptive to a lawsuit. I'm just clarifying on the proper procedure.

[ozcatbug]

Thought I'd tell this from the refurbishment side. Last year we were informed by our bosses that one of the ipods that had been through the centre had gone out with a copy of the Thunder Song from Ted. The ipod was given to a 4 year old that was obviously traumatised by hearing that song. So the parents kicked up a stink. This led to one staff member getting a written and final warning, which was not called for and is a whole other issue with us at the warehouse, and instead she turned around and quit. Damn you Seth MacFarlane. We lost a damn good worker because of you.

The policy for reformatting of idevices had changed about a month previous to that ipod going through the centre, and management had decided that since formatting took too long, it would be quicker to just delete everything instead. Look how that turned out. Prior to this incident, the only ones responsible for formatting the consoles was auditing. After this incident all the consoles are formatted by both tech and again by auditing. We have had instances where something has been formatted and content was still found on it, so the double format will hopefully cover that.

As for finding porn on consoles, we find inappropriate content on and in all types of consoles, except for DS Lites and DS Originals. If it can be stored, it is there. If it can read DVD's, it is there. If it can't read DVD's but a DVD can fit in it, it is there. If porn is not found at least once a day, it is a rare day indeed.

I have even found a porn DVD in a Wii, and it wasn't a hacked Wii so there was no way to read it. Of course I also found 2 upside down Hi-5 DVD's and a game in the drive with the porn. And of course the parental controls were on. I love when that happens. Another time I found a 3DS with the parental controls on, but a quick look through photo album found some very inappropriate naked photos of two big breasted women as they made out with each other. Oddly enough the parental controls won't stop the content of photos taken by a console.

Important announcement for the parents out there: Just because you have enabled parental controls on an item doesn't mean you don't have to check what your children are doing with that item. Parental controls will not stop your pre-pubescent child from taken naked photos of himself in a suggestive way, nor will it stop your child from taking photos of your girlie magazines. Neither will it stop your child taking photos of herself and her boyfriend (that you think is sooo cute that she has a boyfriend at her age) when you have no idea that she isn't as innocent as you think. Believe me, the cute photos of her and her sister playing with their Barbies compared to the naked shots of her and her boyfriend, not really giving a true picture of innocence.

Just to add, when I find these photos I delete the entire album, then format it before it is sent to auditing to format again. I'm not risking someone finding kiddie porn when it is my name attached to the console. And it doesn't matter if the kiddie porn was taken by the kiddie him or herself, it's still an offense to have it. Porn is one thing, but kiddie porn deserves extra effort on my part.

[NorthernZel]

Actually, a similar thing happened over here - a dad bought a refurbished iPad for his 7-year-old daughter, and the store hadn't wiped the harddisk as they normally do. Cue overflow of home-made pornmovies, belonging to a guy that Dad knew. Ooops.

Anyway, though it got a small mentioning in a newspaper, nothing major happened - Dad returned the iPad to the store for another tablet, the store apologized, and that was it. Dad only brought the issue to the attention of the media to remind all electronics stores that they must make sure an used pc/tablet/game console/whatever is wiped before getting re-sold. No sob stories about traumatized and scarred for life kids.

[HYHYBT]

Actually, a similar thing happened over here - a dad bought a refurbished iPad for his 7-year-old daughter, and the store hadn't wiped the harddisk as they normally do. Cue overflow of home-made pornmovies, belonging to a guy that Dad knew. Ooops.

Thank you for the reminder not only to wipe the data from inside used electronic devices in case the seller neglected to, but also to wipe the *outside* of them with an appropriate cleaning product, just in case.