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Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch
DrinkDr.Pepper writes "Just after the last touchdown by the Cardinals, with 3 minutes to go in the game, approximately 30 seconds of pornographic material was shown, seen by an unknown number of Comcast customers in Tucson, Arizona who were watching the game in standard definition. Comcast has apologized (they used the word 'mortified') and is issuing a $10 credit to any customer who claims to have been impacted. Various news accounts suggest that the incident was a malicious act, but no one knows how it was done or by whom."
Tyler Durden strikes again!
First time I'll have been paid to watch porn.
You know your feature is boring when people watch it to see the funny ads, and in order to keep ratings up they flash tits at every turn.. Janet Jackson Started a trend..
What's so big about this football anyway?
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In light of the incident, Comcast says it will issue a $10 credit to any customers who say they viewed the 30-second clip, which featured full male nudity. (SEE BOX)
I was unfortunately disappointed to find that the BOX did not have 30 seconds of free porn, but instead an offer for $10.
If it had been any other night and any other game, I imagine most people would have been willing to pay $10 to see it!
the day that a news source posts a full uncensored clip of the incident is the day society has truly moved on from the arbitrary taboos of old.
Of course it'd also be the day that such an incident would merit only a footnote in an "odd stuff" newspaper section.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
With the Superbowl commercials being what they were this year, I'm surprised anyone noticed the difference. GoDaddy in particular is getting out of hand, though I was not impressed by the Doritos or NBC commercials either. (At least the Conan commercial was just amusing innuendo.) All around, it was a rather embarrassing year to be watching the Superbowl with the family.
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so let me get this straight. Comcast customers got to see porn and they're getting paid?
Where do i sign up for that service?
Will Spice end-ter-tainment be deeply im-packed-ted? Probably not. The'll probably get a slap on the...
Wait. This should cost more than the Janet Jackson cleavage/busted bust incident...
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Comcast needn't have apologised for broadcasting porn. What did warrant an apology was showing porn containing nothing more than an ugly guy flapping his cock all over the place. You, sirs, have crossed the line!
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Ok, watch the clip in question here...
Knowing Comcast, I'm surprised they didn't bill everyone for the whole Pay-Per-View movie!
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
to get my lotion from the cabinet. I am mortified.
As a non-AZ resident I didn't my fair share of free pr0n. Do I get $10 ?
How apropos - the slashdot captcha is pucker. I read that she did!
And somewhere in that mess, someone was enjoying some porno only to have their fantasy broken by the defensive line of the Cardinals.
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Instead of $10 they should give away Enzyte and Viagra.
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Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn
Why are they apologizing? And where can we see the re-runs?
I bet it was .... Cum-Castic.... having this cumpound interest in their broadcasting... I bet their lawyer will say of any impending case... "This VERY SUCK"....
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to get my lotion from the cabinet. I am mortified.
Can we get a link to the Porn?
I googled "Porn" and nothing came up.
"The guy was just hanging brain. I mean, what's all the fuss?"
I was impacted, I did not receive the porn that other users got. Can I get my refund for that?
"spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle"
"Cox communications"
"just after Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored on a touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to put the team in the lead." - hell of a celebration
but the best part? Sports fans complaining about watching a blowjob on t.v. for free (better than free...they get $10!
Several years ago when my home team was in the Superbowl, my comcast cable went out for several hours during the game. Their response was tough luck. They weren't willing to give me any credit. So it is pretty ironic that people "exposed" to 30 seconds of porn are getting $10 back. The moral of the story is that corporations are only responsible when the news media shames them.
Won't the FCC be all over this? I don't think the $10 coupons will save them from that. This is a tad more severe than say, a 7/10 of a second "wardrobe malfunction"...
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
four hours of violent smashing is not porn?
Laugh about the porn clip (I did, here in Tucson, I yelled "FTW!")
But depending on the origin of the video, Comcast may be on a very real hook for broadcasting copyrighted material without license, and could conceivably be exposed to distribution royalties for a much larger audience than the one that is supposed to be limited to a specific, accountable pay-per-view arrangement.
I would be very surprised if lawyers were not working this out in a damage control mode.
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any customer who claims to have been impacted
Is this Slashdot or a marketing manager's office? The word you are looking for is affected.
I work for a CATV operator, and my desk is 200 feet from the headend. There is no way that could have been a glitch. The real question is was it a malicious or ignorant act of an employee. Regardless, the unemployment rate just went up in Tucson.
So how did they decide $10 was the magic number to make it okay? Seems pretty arbitrary to me.
Anonymous from www.ebaumsworld.com are everywhere.
". . . huh, huh . . huh, huh . . . Beavis, we're like watching Cum-Cast now . . ."
". . . heh, heh . . . hehehe . . . Wait they're showing football again . . . change it! Change it!"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I had to watch 30 seconds of Super Bowl right inbetween my porn. That's so not cool Comcast.
So this is the Superbowl "Package" Deal that Comcast was advertising, huh?
This guy's the limit!
They're just showing what the sportscasters were watching anyways. "Check out that penetration!" "Yeah John, you can see the backfield has been totally violated." "If he got his hands on that ball, he would have scored for sure."
See, that movie wasn't all that ridiculous. That is probably what happened. Some 'Zero Cool' dude must have hacked into the network and changed the channel!
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Laugh about the porn clip (I did, here in Tucson, I yelled "FTW!")
Are you aware that it takes longer to yell eff tee dubba-yew than "FOR THE WIN!"? Perhaps you should stand up, go outside, and take a deep breath of fresh air.
Oh wait, you're in Tucson. I take it back. Stay inside.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Photos or clip or it didn't happened!!
Cumcast feed and get paid $10?
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I love when stuff like this happens. In the past, there have been incidents such as when someone switched over a feed of Jeopardy to the Playboy Channel. Other notable incidents:
Max Headroom Incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
HBO "Captain Midnight" incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlMHCdYXLM
>Are you aware that it takes longer to yell eff tee dubba-yew than "FOR THE WIN!"?
Yes! That's why I did it! I also cheered when the Cardinals lost, just to be contrarian. I wish they'd have lost by one point though.
Air quality in Tucson is some of the best in the world, and it's beautiful weather right now...
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I've heard thru the grapevine that this was also seen in Yuma, AZ, and that it was more then 1 occurrence: "she actually saw the same thing on saturday night and sunday morning" (before the superbowl)
it was clearly Ebaumsworld.com
No, Ebaumsworld just got hold of a copy of the report where the original hacker claimed credit and replaced his name with theirs.
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It would have been funnier if it had been a guy instead (or in stead, hehehe).
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You really pulled that one out of your ass didn't you. If they were hacked, which they claim to have been, they would not be liable for anything. It would be similar if someone shot someone with your gun. You proved you weren't the trigger man, or even involved, but went to jail for murder.
That won't stop someone from sueing, but I don't think comcast lawyers are losing any sleep.
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This has happened before. But it affected Cartoon Network at 3:00 PM for like two minutes in Vancouver WA. I was like 14 at the time and thought it awesome.
gone amok... or, umm, gone awry...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPHLGwIeNTSqX5OhfAz5P60q01gAD963LLQO0
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and is issuing a $10 credit to any customer who claims .... and I'm claiming to have been affected. Now pay me!
and Slashdot posts news about a Comcast glitch in AZ.
Continue the trivia, Slashot.
It's easier to get Nerd news from news.google.com.
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As an accounting major, I am just doing the math: 30 seconds of pr0n equals $10 dollars...so, that's $20 a minute and $1200 dollars an hour. By my calculations, I can watch two hours of pr0n each month and be able to pay my tuition instead of taking student loans. What a country!!!
Trust him.
Once he has seen the time-consuming, noisy, loud and dirty results that started appearing 9 months after the "insertion", he'll never ever be even interested in inserting his penis anywhere.
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If this had happened in, say, the middle of the third quarter when not much was happening, they'd still have gotten some complaints, but if you were watching the game for the football and not just the commercials, the timing would have been really annoying. It was one of those games where most of the action was in the last three minutes of each half.
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Another "wardrobe malfunction."
The rules are a lot less strict for cable than for broadcast TV, though the FCC and some Congresscritters keep wanting to use regulation of broadcast TV as an excuse to regulate cable.
But even if they were regulated, they'd get a lot less heat for it because it was not only obviously not the company's intended broadcast, it was also only in one limited market as opposed to the whole country.
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Are those three points OR, or AND? I assume AND.
also, 3) exist only to be offensive I don't think the wardrobe malfunction incident would have met this criteria? Didn't they get fined?
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
to get my lotion from the cabinet. I am mortified.
Who the heck needs lotion to do that?!
:/
Actually- don't answer, I just figured that one out. While growing up (pre-widespread Internet), it wasn't something I'd been aware of- and having tried it with lubrication once or twice, I found it didn't add anything and certainly wasn't necessary.
Yet- even via jokey comments like this- it seemed like a lot of guys online connected the two in a way that suggested it was an everyday thing and culturally normal.
Then it clicked- if I'd had my foreskin cut off at birth, the... uh, mechanics of masturbation would be significantly less comfortable without some form of lubricant. And unlike the society I grew up in, Internet forums are dominated by Americans.
The answer- I'm guessing that the majority of men who feel the need to use lubricant are circumcised or at least grew up in a culture where that was the norm.
Sorry if I icked anyone out with that one, but it was one of those "of course!" moments of enlightenment I felt that I had to share
was that during the game or the penis flash?
flinging poop since 1969
With Madden talking about penetration and strong man hands the whole time I'm surprised anybody even noticed.
http://www.intotemptation.net/2009/02/03/super-bowl-porn-postmortem/
Unfortunately for him ... he had no plan to monetize the traffic at all.
How fast do you think traffic will drop off? My guess is ... down 80 percent in 30 days ...
Comcast wanted to present another kind of superbowl. This time you only got to see the outside, but there were multiple of them.
I would have claimed developing a porn addiction and demanded free porn for the rest of the year.
Most amusing was, after they cut back to the SuperBowl, you hear Madden saying "He went to the perfect guy, in the perfect situation."
When I was 17 my father said the following: "the reason God made kids so cute is so people would have more than one of them before they turned into teenagers."
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
I don't get it, what's so bad about some superb owl porn?
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
... By the time the Viagra is working you'll be watching superbowl again ... what a turnoff..
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While you can have it for free at Comcast?
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
This got me thinking about Broadcast Signal Intrusion", culture jamming, radio/television piracy, etc. Is the recent/upcoming conversion to digital signals from analog a way to circumvent or foil "terrorists" who might want to broadcast "alternative" messages? Would it make this a thing of the past?
.. when are they going to apologize for the 30 seconds of Super Bowl that interrupted my pr0n?
When I first heard about the incident I was shocked it didn't happen to Cox Cable.
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They *hate* that.
"is issuing a $10 credit to any customer who claims to have been impacted."
I was impacted! i saw it after downloading it on one of them torrent sites... my $10 please..!
Talk about a Triple Play. Knew someone would catch them package shaping one of these days.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
and nobody will ever know because what happens in the head end stays in the head end.
They may have a defense, but having a defense does not automatically limit your liability.
The gun analogy is not so bad, because in many places you can indeed be held liable for negligently allowing a crime to be committed with your firearm.
>I don't think comcast lawyers are losing any sleep.
You've seen the clip? You understand the political and social stripe that is predominate out in Pima County where Comcast is the provider (as opposed to the extremely liberal city of Tucson proper?) I'm sure they are being confronted on all sides. I would almost put money on Comcast being stripped of their contract and replaced by Cox.
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Comcast, is that you again?
Really? I sat in a bar and watched Superbowl. I didn't see anything that I'd consider particularly raunchy or inappropriate, and I didn't hear any complaints from the people around me either. Are Americans really this prudish when it comes to TV advertising?
Yes.
Comcast may be on a very real hook for broadcasting copyrighted material without license, and could conceivably be exposed to distribution royalties for a much larger audience than the one that is supposed to be limited to a specific, accountable pay-per-view arrangement.
Opposed to, say, subjecting viewers (including minors) to pornographic content over an FCC regulated channel? Because, you know, kids and families never watch sporting events, let alone the Super Bowl.
But you're probably right, they're completely worrying about copyright damage control as a top priority with this.
You get $10 to watch 30 seconds of pr0n! I'm quitting my job and moving to Tucson.
I would almost put money on Comcast being stripped of their contract and replaced by Cox.
Oh! The irony!
It would be massively more exciting if they didn't keep throwing adverts and extended half time breaks in. It's a great way to lose the tension and the moment - several minutes of drinks adverts.
PS - if you need Cheerleaders, you don't have an atmosphere.
If this were really happening, what would you think?
was this a hack?
This incident deeply upset me, I missed it.
I wouldn't mind the nationalization of American TV. Anything with ads is stuff you're paying for (whether you watch it or not), because the ads don't pay for themselves. Anything without conspicuous ads is likely paid for by sponsorship (which you end up paying for), the cost of the channel merely goes towards the channel boss' yacht fleet. So you end up paying for thousands of channels of drivel, even if you don't even own a TV.
So what's the difference between that and a nationalized channel?
Well, those countries with national TV stations (such as the BBC) generally produce better shows with higher intellectual content, have mentally and physically healthier populations (fewer couch potatoes) and a higher concentration span.
Paying one thousandth as much for some content worth watching seems a damn good exchange to me. Ok, I'm elitist, I make a rotten capitalist and I prefer the UK version of Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, but I reject utterly the idea that corporate America television is capable of producing a quality program worthy of my time.
Even in game shows, I'll take The Krypton Factor, Treasure Hunt, The Crystal Maze (O'Brien era) and The Adventure Game over Family Feuds, The Price Is Right, American Gladiators and Hollywood Squares.
Having thousands of times the options, where each option is one thousandth as good, is a net loss, not a net gain. Choice for choice's sake, means nothing if your choices are all bull.
One of the great things about Max Headroom and Year of the Sex Olympics was that they predicted - quite correctly - the results of excessive corporate media. One of the amusing things about American TV audiences is that they followed the scripts better than the actors did.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
...Cable company pays you for porn.
was it a fumble and an incomplete pass?
This is not the first time they accidentally aired porn on a regular channel in Tucson. I seriously doubt it was a malicious act like they claim. Their screwing up on the superbowl made it the huge story.
Comcast can just give me a free month of Playboy channel. . .
I think it's priceless that Comcast set up their email address for feedback on this topic through gmail. Freaking great that they can't trust their own equipment enough, they have to go to Google. Makes me very glad that I've never treated my Comcast email as a personal or proper email address, only used to sign up for possible spam things and newsletters.
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"Who here that has a penis ISN'T interested in inserting it everywhere?"
But does it blend? Oh wait!
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In France, to see porn, customers pay YOU!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
BTW wasn't it just a few years ago when everyone in the States got upset about a "wardrobe malfunction" with a certain Ms Jackson's costume?
Have the democrats loosened morals that much, that fast?
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
They must know my demographic!
I was sitting in a hotel suite, waiting from some friends to get ready and go to dinner on Saturday evening. One of the guys was surfing the cable channels and I mentioned that, "You never know when the free porn will be on." Not 5 minutes later he hit a channel and suddenly, porn. 5 minutes later it was gone.
Somebody hit the wrong switch...
That being Larry Fitzgerald raping the Steelers d-backs in the second half. And I say that as a literally card-carrying Steelers fan.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
That will teach them to watch porn in the preview monitor.
...I don't subscribe to Comcast but my pirated version had the blip, gimme my ten bucks!
If you really worked for a CATV operator you would know exactly what happened. The engineer(s) were watching porn on one of the monitors, like they do CONSTANTLY, and when it came time to transfer to the feed of whatever local POS commercial they were supposed to air in that slot they switched to the porn. It wasn't malicious, it was just carelessness.
I don't understand why this is such a mystery. Everyone in the place, and everyone who has ever pulled a graveyard shift in the control room knows what happened. And how did I manage to get this far in the thread without someone else posting this? Are there so few ./ readers of my vintage left? Or did they just go to bed early after a long day of yelling at kids to get off the lawn...
Hmm, I watched the Superbowl, I have Comcast, I don't remember any of this happening.
I know what I'm buying with my $10....prOn!
Because you just can't blame everything at alcohol ...
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Steelers Victory + $10 + Free Porn = BEST SUPERBOWL EVER!
Comcast's viral ad has reaped seeds! oh it wasn't an ad ?
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Only those with 4 digit IDs :)
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Although the tap to each home attenuates the signal quite a bit, it is possible for people to inject signals into the cable system. It won't go beyond the first amplifier unless its frequency is in the uplink band and that signal won't be redistributed. But it does mean people can distribute weak signals around their neighborhood. On frequencies the cable company isn't using, it won't take a lot of signal to communicate with your neighbors. For example you could run your own neighborhood LAN over the cable wires.
It would take a LOT of signal power to take over an existing signal. You'd have to boost it as much as the attenuator tap reduces it, plus the additional amount to take over the signal on that channel. But it would be possible. So what I'm curious about is just how widespread this porn was seen in Tuscon.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
It's not every day you see a cock flying on television ;))
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Because I see no further steps needed for profit ;)
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Would have expected a $10 bill for Pay-per-view Pr0n ...
I think the porn company is getting screwed here (pun intended). Their copyrighted work was broadcast to thousands of televisions. Using RIAA logic that is equivalent to every television buying the porn. I think Comcast owes the porn company roughly $24.99 for every TV watching the Super Bowl in Tucson.
I have about 4 and third digits in my UID, so I'm close. I've been married for 16 years and have four kids.
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