Girl's MP3 player came preloaded with porn (Wal-Mart)

AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | 12/28/07

[Rick_Michael]

Must have been a return....

[mnehring]

He said he has already bought his daughter a new one and is hanging onto the controversial one until he talks to a lawyer.

Hmmmmm... I wonder if it really was used or if this is like the finger in the Wendy's Chili incident?

[trumandogz]

This could be a scam and daddy is running to a lawyer but if not Wal-Mart will have to pay for offending the sensibilities of that poor little girl in Tennessee.

[trumandogz]

"Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying," Hill said Thursday. "I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head."

Sounds like the kid looked at the porn for ten minutes and then began to cry.

[trumandogz]

Does Wal-Mart sell iPods or is this some other brand of MP3 Player?

[mnehring]

They do. If it is an iPod, then it will be easy to tell who downloaded what and when because the iPods add a lot of metadata to downloads.

[OrangeDaisy]

Don’t most 10 year olds need help to set up their iPod? You have to download iTunes (unless someone else in the house already uses it), attach the iPod to the computer, and then buy music / movies or download them from the computer. Seems like this would require parental involvement. Did the little girl just turn on the iPod and there was stuff on it? Why didn’t her parents notice?

[Spktyr]

Doubt it’s an iPod, or the media would have called it tht.

My guess? It’s a Zune.

[mnehring]

Nope, every ten year old I know actually help the adults set stuff like that up.

[trumandogz]

This very well could be a scam.

Have someone go buy an iPod with cash, take it home, download porn, mark the package, return it to Wal-Mart.

Go back to Wal-Mart and buy the very same iPod and give it to your kid for Christmas.

In any case, Wal-Mart screwed-up by putting the MP3 player back on the shelf.

[trumandogz]

Either Apple lawyers or Microsoft lawyers told the AP to keep their name out or the article or else.

[Gay State Conservative]

Question #1...was it a return? If it was,can you tell when a particular video or audio track was loaded into it? If the guy tries to sue Wal Mart’s likely to demand that the Dad’s computer is examined as the possible source of the porn. I’ve read that when Wal Mart’s sued they fight the suit tooth and nail....every single time.

[Spktyr]

Apple generally doesn’t bother with this sort of thing - witness the recent “I bought an iPod from Target and all that was in the box was some rocks” incidents.

Microsoft, on the other hand...

[Spktyr]

If it’s an iPod, yes, you can tell. I’m reasonably sure you can tell on a Zune. If it was something like a Creative or Archos player, not so sure.

[trumandogz]

The man would be an idiot to use his own computer to do this.

[Eye of Unk]

Well duh, Walmart has for years taken merchandise back, they give it only a minor inspection and repackage it to resell. Especially electronic items, and I steer way clear of after christmas sales because almost everything is returns, if I wanted used I would go to the Salvation Army.

Always check what you buy is in the original wrap and not “re-taped” when you buy from Walmart.

[tflabo]

Mmmmmm...gives new definition to MP3.

Movie Porn 3XXX

[SoldierDad]

Wallmart sells IPods, and several other brands of MP3 players with screens.

[Gay State Conservative]

The man would be an idiot to use his own computer to do this.

The guy's quoted as having said that within ten minutes his daughter was in tears...and that he wished he could remove the images from her mind.I wonder why a girl of that age would be "in tears".Stunned,yes....confused,yes....asking her parents "what are these people doing?",yes...but in tears? That quote suggests to me that he might not be the brightest bulb on the tree and that this could well be a scam.