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[Digideus]

[Jane Smith]

https://www.weylandindustries.com/

^^^^^^ IN Game note wEyland NOTE the E




http://www.waylandindustries.com....

OOG^^^^^^^^^^ wAyland note the fail..




Now who is waiting on the Elysium Viral as well
~~~jEynE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tL5eP_LjWP8

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[thebruce]

As for Weyland vs Wayland -- take anything WAYLAND with a grain of salt.

If the only in-game connection is a very tiny, relatively blurry instance of "wayland", for which someone may have easily, and very quickly, set up red herrings to capture as much activity on "wayland" variants as possible; Whether as an intentional gamejack or not.

I'd think that if it's a typo and it was caught officially, they would forward misspellings to the proper locations. I'd expect waylandindustries.com for example to transfer visitors to weylandindustries.com

As for @WaylandCorp on twitter, possibly the same result - presumably the official response would be to register that account, and either leave it empty to stop spoofers, or direct users to the proper Twitter account (be there one, of course).


So yeah, IMO, until there's blatant in-game connection to anything "Wayland", I'd take it with a grain of salt. Gamejacking can still be done by extremely skilled people and have all the appearance of official connection, yet still play havoc with followers.

That said, it could still be official. There's just no way to be sure yet as the only connection could easily be a typo that potentially could have been taken advantage of.

/my 2p

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[thebruce]

Also, called it! (the how, that is )
http://twitter.com/WaylandCorp/statuses/175325249989124098
"I happened to notice the misspelled Wayland in the background to the TED video and checked to see if it existed on twitter."

Nice sleuthing, blackfeathers. That is a prime example of what ARGers are naturally drawn to do

[Icon of Sin]

Perhaps the Wayland Industries page is "in game" and it is there as a group of people who are "anti-Weyland" and is a page setup to fool people, or just bash Weyland Industries eventually.

Just ruminating...

First time posting since the cloverfield arg.

[Icon of Sin]

[iRobotZombie]

Go go gadget excitement

[blackfeathers]

[zeighy]

Maybe some site has posted about the possibilities (and could have been a spoiler) about the movie.... like you know how certain sites try to flesh down aspects of a movie attempting to examine it even before it's released...

I couldn't think of any other reason for such post...

[Jane Smith]

 

[morph1138]

I think the PR mistake he's talking about is the Walking Dead Season 2 box set that has some character spoilers.

[blackfeathers]

it's interesting to note that at one range of time, skyrocket media once owned weylandindustries.com:

http://www.who.is/domain_archive-com/weylandindustries.com/

it expired on 14 aug 2010 and was registered by fox's intellectual property department on 26 january 2011 - four months later.

back then, when skyrocket owned all the weyland domains, they forwarded to http://www.skyrocket.net/weyland
the server gave a 302 response & redirection to a dead 404/not found page at
http://www.skyrocketmedia.com/weyland


[speculation] -this point below are just educated guesses

weylandcorp et al domains were owned about or just after avp came out in 2004. the owner probably noticed no domain ownership and snagged it immediately.

the gap in time from expiration to acquisition from fox could be a clue to differentiating/separating skyrocket media llc from fox because:

1. sufficient time had passed where anybody could have purchased the domain after expiration.

2. fox didn't carry over the domain from the original owner. they didn't buy it from him nor does it appear to have been transferred. if they did buy it from him, one would think that weylandcorp.com / weylandcorporation.com / yutanicorp.com / yutanicorporation.com would have been of more interest or value in acquiring.

so, it's possible(not definitive) that while skyrocket is someone's webdesign service, they were holding on to the domains they were probably fans of and for the potential of a sale. weylandindustries.com was probably let go as the owner probably thought 'weylandcorporation.com' had more value to keep and wanted to save a few bucks in renewal. (best guess)


as was stated by others before -on this thread, twitter and other areas, if there's any viral or arg trail to be had at this time, it should logically appear from waylandindustries.com, the ted blog page or other known areas that are generally considered owned by fox (or the creators of the prometheus movie).

but, it also could be to our advantage to be somewhat aware of what's out there for potential oog gamejacks or even outside-the-box discoveries that might in some way be relevant to a viral arg.

[blackfeathers]

transcript

[Adm_BlackCat]

Can't believe I missed this from a few days ago.

From the REAL @PrometheusMovie