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Watching My Neighbors Watch On-Demand TV
Josh Levin, Slate Magazine writes "I have a magical box that allows me to watch other people watch TV — their movies, their sports, their cartoons, and their hour-long procedural dramas. And sometimes, usually around 11:30 on Friday nights, their soft-core pornography... I solved the mystery by consulting online message boards. At techie sites like AVS Forum, other voyeurs described their adventures in freeloading. I was intercepting video-on-demand channels through the power of my Samsung's QAM tuner."
Yeah, between childrens tv shows and softcore porn there isn't much that interesting, except that when they watch the nudity scene in a movie and then replay it 5-8 times.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I have the lesser model of that device called binoculars lol ;) but hey don't yell at me, my neighbors are WEIRD! I gotta keep an eye on them lol.
Google's Super Secret Search Algorithm: SELECT @search_results FROM internet WHERE @search_results = 'good'
You're a genius Mr Durden.
Channels 97, 100, 115 seem to be the on-demand channels in my area.
I was showing off the ability to intercept on-demand programming to some of my friends the other day and we happened to come across some of the softcore porn being fast forwarded through. Curious to see what they were fast forwarding to, we watched for a little bit... the person fast forwarded to a dialog interlude. Our curiosity piqued, we watched a little more and noticed that as soon as the actual intercourse portion of the movie started, they fast forwarded to the next scene that included dialog.
Could we have found the only person in the world who reads playboy for the articles?
Ya know, Softcore is actually sexier, as in, more of a "turn on" than the hardcore stuff. The hardcore stuff comes across as more anatomical than anything - at least in my advancing age.
I said "cums" ...huh, huh, huh....
OK, I'm not too advanced in mental age because I still think of "Beavis and Butthead"...I said "Butt"...huh, huh, huh...heh.....heh...heh....
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
"People find and like the strangest things."
Surfing Slashdot.
The article doesn't mention that he can watch anyone's TV except for this one TV he calls the "boogeyman." When he is watching that TV, it can watch him too.
Sam! If you will let me be,
I will try them.
You will see.
Imagine sitting alone on a Friday night, no girlfriend in sight, flipping through the channels, running dead up against a soft-core channel, looking wildly left and right irrespective of loneliness, yanking at the wanker furiously hoping there is time, and then being beaten by the creep next door who started early and staring at Ma Bush staring back at you from CNN.
Having a program randomly fast forward and go back and repeat parts sounds like watching TV when my wife has the remote. Except for the porn part.
No thanks, already got some.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
It's probably a lonely pizza guy who sympathizes with the main character and wants to hear how things play out, not caring about the more *ahem* physical matters in the show.
It's not a secret. It's useless information. Given the reaction to many of the same kinds of infractions lately though, poor John Levine will be sent to Guantanamo for the next five years. Mr. Levine's article is to the movie business what the Boston Strangler is to the single woman alone at night - he's a traitor who's violated the DMCA and allowed people unauthorized access to .... utter crap. He'll be lucky if they don't just shoot him.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
TFA: The reason I can watch all that hot on-demand stuff is because Comcast doesn't encrypt it.
That rattling/bleeping/crying sound you hear is every sysop at Comcast getting an email informing them they won't be going home as early as they thought tonight.
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About as likely.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Well sure, but that's what my binoculars and rear window are for :)
Bark less. Wag more.
In the UK the older Sky boxes were notorious for offering your current viewing to neighbours - only this was simple RF leaking from the rear. Careful placement with a small aerial and you could get a half-decent picture. This meant you could watch your neighbour flicking through the channels, usually quite rapidly until boobies appeared, at which point he of course rolled back a few times in order to check out the action.
In Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU!
Let's rename the article "TV" to remove all ambiguity.
Who would have thought it was possible to invent something more boring than watching TV. Of course... watching people as they watch TV. Genius!
/Mike
I think I just felt the world get a little dummer.
-- "So, what's the deal with Auntie Gerschwitz et all?"
Maybe. But if you'd move about six inches to the left, I'd be able to see your TV a whole lot better.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
You're right. I like my naked women to actually BE cartoons.
It makes me afraid that somebody could be watching me while I'm watching what somebody else is watching.
They might think that I'm actually watching it when I'm just watching what they are watching. Honest!
He said they've already got one!