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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."

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  1. First penis by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tyler Durden strikes again!

    1. Re:First penis by martinw89 · · Score: 3, Funny

      While Ron Jeremy incidentally does have a penis, I believe Tyler Durden is the one inserting it everywhere.

    2. Re:First penis by Applekid · · Score: 2, Insightful

      While Ron Jeremy incidentally does have a penis, I believe Tyler Durden is the one inserting it everywhere.

      Who here that has a penis ISN'T interested in inserting it everywhere?

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    3. Re:First penis by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Anybody who's married. We're not inserting it anywhere. (without permission)

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    4. Re:First penis by snspdaarf · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, not everywhere everywhere.

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    5. Re:First penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You must be new here. Nobody here gets laid. Leave while you can!

    6. Re:First penis by Ares · · Score: 5, Funny

      there are married people here?

      :: ducks as his wife reads over his shoulder ::

    7. Re:First penis by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't lie. You're still interested.

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    8. Re:First penis by Miseph · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I think the girl in the clip has some pretty compelling evidence she was "impacted".

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  2. Thanks comcast by Dyinobal · · Score: 5, Funny

    First time I'll have been paid to watch porn.

    1. Re:Thanks comcast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Here is it, you pervert! NSFW! (obviously) http://comcastsuperbowlporn.com/cache/page2.html#video

    2. Re:Thanks comcast by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      Even more amusing is that somebody registered ComcastSuperBowlPorn.com just to display it.

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    3. Re:Thanks comcast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I think you should reread the parent's comment and then realize how much of an idiot you've been.

    4. Re:Thanks comcast by WalksOnDirt · · Score: 5, Informative

      Direct link. Otherwise I just get told I don't have the proper plug-in. Not very interesting porn, though.

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    5. Re:Thanks comcast by piltdownman84 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      They must have watched the GoDaddy ad that reinforced the idea that the internet is only for porn.

    6. Re:Thanks comcast by Aazzkkimm · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Tucson, AZ, porn pays YOU!

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    7. Re:Thanks comcast by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It appeared to be a DVR recording, so that's plausible -- maybe he saw something, rewinded, and started recording.

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    8. Re:Thanks comcast by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shit, did you even watch it?

      Meat and two veg waving around floppily. The girl doesn't even show us her TITS much less anything else.

      I've seen Monty Python skits more porn-y.

  3. Janet Jackson Started a trend by FredFredrickson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Janet Jackson Started a trend by timeOday · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I would have agreed a few years ago, but the last two Superbowl matchups have been excellent, exciting games. For that matter I thought Springsteen did a great job with the halftime show, no gimmicks or voiceovers.

    2. Re:Janet Jackson Started a trend by moderatorrater · · Score: 2, Informative

      The game was as exciting as it gets. Even my sisters-in-law who don't like football were on the edge of their seats. It was a good time.

    3. Re:Janet Jackson Started a trend by SCHecklerX · · Score: 2, Funny

      Springsteen? Are you on crack? Prince laid it down in 2007. That was talent.

      Put those chicken fingers down! *crotch plant to the camera* LOL!

    4. Re:Janet Jackson Started a trend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      I'm pretty sure the FCC can't fine Comcast, since it isn't public broadcasting, and therefore isn't bound by the decency rules. It's a completely different situation. And although you may hate the cable company, I don't see how that's relevant.

    5. Re:Janet Jackson Started a trend by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't worry about it...just go back to playing your sorcerer of light.

      I was attacking the darkness!

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  4. I think by duckInferno · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:I think by Lord+Ender · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Our brains are hard-wired for taboos because they helped primitive societies avoid disasters.

      There is a lot of "noise" in the taboo "signal", for example: taboo words. But some taboos (against incest, or eating certain things) were socially useful. Even the common taboo against homosexual sex could have been beneficial to primitive societies because such practices were significantly more likely to spread disease through the population. Obviously, modern medicine makes this a non-issue, today.

      I would say it is unrealistic to expect a society to have no useless taboos, because they are physically part of our brains. But if we stop using government to enforce useless taboos, we will have advanced.

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    2. Re:I think by duckInferno · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The homosexual taboo is a relatively recent development. Many ancient cultures practiced it openly and it was often seen to be as perfectly normal as a relationship between a man and a woman.

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    3. Re:I think by Lord+Ender · · Score: 2, Informative

      Homosexual taboos are documented as going way, way back. Documentation of the taboo appears in ancient Hebrew religious texts, for example. It is *not* a recent development in human history. This is not the same as saying it was shared by every ancient society (which is the mistake you are making).

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  5. Is there a difference? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Is there a difference? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Christ, grow up, and pull the stick out of your ass already.

      He can't. He's nailed to it.

    2. Re:Is there a difference? by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      All around, it was a rather embarrassing year to be watching the Superbowl with the family.

      You mean, more embarrassing than all the other years you watched a bunch of big sweaty guys in tights slapping each other on the ass for hours?

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    3. Re:Is there a difference? by BobReturns · · Score: 5, Insightful

      To be fair to the grandparent, he did say "with the family.".
      I wouldn't mind virtually any amount of explicit content in ads if I was on my own, but I'd be unhappy if there were kids watching it with me.

    4. Re:Is there a difference? by twistah · · Score: 5, Informative

      Maybe you should tell your family this isn't the Victorian era anymore.

    5. Re:Is there a difference? by jaavaaguru · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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?

    6. Re:Is there a difference? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe you should tell your family this isn't the Victorian era anymore.

      But they'd already spent so much on their wigs!

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    7. Re:Is there a difference? by eigenstates · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wait- we /aren't/ supposed to be running around... oh shit.

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    8. Re:Is there a difference? by jmichaelg · · Score: 3, Insightful

      A family watching the Super Bowl has a reasonable expectation that they won't be subjected to someone else's idea of what acceptable sexual mores are these days. It was a football game, not a Victoria Secret premier.

      Personally, I don't care about porn being available but I can sympathize with folks who were offended by Go Daddy's poor taste. I watched the game at a friend's house and ofter the Go Daddy Ad aired, they decided to switch registrars for their family domain away from Go Daddy.

    9. Re:Is there a difference? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why? Is explicit content something dirty or shameful to be hidden away from the eyes of our poor defenseless children?

      Yes, and I think we should KILL anyone who exposes children to graphic sexual imagery. After all, all children are products of violence, but not all children are products of sex. Er, wait...

      (If you (the global you) were thinking of bringing up test tube babies as a counterexample, just kill yourself. kthxbye.)

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    10. Re:Is there a difference? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      If it's NOT dirty/shameful, then you're not doing it right.

    11. Re:Is there a difference? by Bonker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I wouldn't mind virtually any amount of explicit content in ads if I was on my own, but I'd be unhappy if there were kids watching it with me.

      I submit that this is a cultural artifact.

      You either see nothing offensive in ads with explicit content or feel that you can safely ignore it because you understand the difference between real life and the image of life that such advertisements would present. However, you'd be uncomfortable showing a child the same thing. Why is this?

      I suspect there are a few reasons ranging the spectrum from cultural guilt, to superstition, and taboo abeyance.

      Perhaps you'd feel responsible for educating the child on the differences between real life and the image of life that are presented by advertisers. In any other context, this is something we don't even think about. We know that simply eating breakfast cereal doesn't suddenly make you super-athletic and attractive. We don't have any difficulty repeating that to children, or explaining what's necessary to achieve those goals in the real world. But since our culture has placed such a strict taboo about imparting sex education to children, we feel incapable of telling the same kids that drinking beer and wine coolers doesn't make you attractive to half-naked dancers. We don't tell them that getting drunk in order to seek sexual gratification is a really risky, self-destructive behavior.

      Arguably the latter is a much more important life lesson, but that same taboo forbids us from admitting that children have sexuality, let alone that they're even more vulnerable to being pandered to than adults.

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    12. Re:Is there a difference? by BobReturns · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You may very well have a point. I'm British, and cultural guilt is something we do incredibly well.

      In my personal experience, there is a stage when children become aware of sexuality, the age of which varies from child to child. The attitude I expressed refers to children before this point, who honestly probably aren't ready for frank discussions about the subject (I know I wasn't at a young age, conversations like that were incredibly odd to me when I was younger than about 10 - but I suppose it varies based on the child).

      I think the key point here is varying definitions of "child", I'd be much happier explaining what was up with that PETA advert to someone with a certain level of maturity than I would to an 8 year old.

    13. Re:Is there a difference? by HiThere · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Never lived on a farm, did you. Yet through most of history most families did. And also lived in single room huts.

      Exposure to sex isn't harmful to children. I have no idea why some people think it is.

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    14. Re:Is there a difference? by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Informative

      In Nevada you can have sex with a 14 year old if you're 35

      huh?

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    15. Re:Is there a difference? by xianthax · · Score: 2, Insightful

      testosterone infused giants beating the tar out of each other while discussion taking untested injections to repair injuries just enough to play while ignoring all side effects, thats completely comfortable to watch with the kiddies..... display and discussion of our natural bodies and activities, uncomfortable..... fail....

    16. Re:Is there a difference? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm amazed that among all these replies, no one has considered that my problem might not be so much the sex itself as much as the attitude toward sex? We're talking about commercials that objectify the people and devalue the act itself. Perhaps as a parent, I don't really want my kids to think of sex that way?

      And besides. If we start allowing sex everywhere on television, that will soon be the ONLY thing on television. (It's getting pretty close these days.) There's always the desire to pander to the lowest common denominator. As an intelligent species capable of reasoning and critical thinking, we should be making efforts to stimulate our intelligence rather than pandering to our baser instincts.

      For those of you who need the cliff notes version (probably the ones who think these commercials are "ok"): I don't want my kids to grow up to be drooling apes.

    17. Re:Is there a difference? by profplump · · Score: 2, Insightful

      But an 8-year-old doesn't care. They'd be happy with a very superficial explanation -- because they have no interest in sex, explaining it to them is just boring for them. They're only asking questions because they don't understand at all; a little bit of context is plenty to make them stop caring.

    18. Re:Is there a difference? by nodrogluap · · Score: 5, Informative

      Funny enough, the commercial must have worked, because guess where the guy bought the domain:

      % whois ComcastSuperBowlPorn.com

      Whois Server Version 2.0

            Domain Name: COMCASTSUPERBOWLPORN.COM
            Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
            Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
            Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
            Name Server: DNS66-1.NEXCESS.NET
            Name Server: DNS66-2.NEXCESS.NET
            Status: clientDeleteProhibited
            Status: clientRenewProhibited
            Status: clientTransferProhibited
            Status: clientUpdateProhibited
            Updated Date: 01-feb-2009
            Creation Date: 01-feb-2009
            Expiration Date: 01-feb-2010

      >>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:46:33 EST

    19. Re:Is there a difference? by Adilor · · Score: 2, Funny

      RTFA

    20. Re:Is there a difference? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Funny

      You mean, more embarrassing than all the other years you watched a bunch of big sweaty guys in tights slapping each other on the ass for hours?

      They aren't slapping ass for hours. There's incidental ass-slapping between bouts of football playing. Here's how it works:

      If you're watching a show where it's in the majority football, with occasional ass-slapping, then you're watching the Super Bowl.

      If you're watching a show where it's mostly ass-slapping with some football thrown in, then you're watching the DVD classing The Super Bowel.

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    21. Re:Is there a difference? by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Reading the wiki article, and I noticed that about half the states, the legal age is 16, the other half it is 18.

      Don't forget the states where it's 17.

      So, if you were having sex with a 16 year old in a moving car, that started in a state where it was legal and the car drove across the border into a state where it wasn't... It would magically turn into a felony.

      Magic ages are kind of dumb anyway, if you ask me. At 18 you're magically old enough to smoke and vote, at 21 you're magically old enough to drink, at other magic numbers you're magically able to drive or have sex.

      Incidentally you'd get whacked with at least two offenses: the sex itself, and transporting a minor across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity. (Whereas if I took a 16-year-old to the next state over where 16-year-olds are legal, we could rent a hotel room and fuck and it'd all be perfectly legal.)

      I wonder if the same law applies to airplanes... (granted, it's pretty tough to do anything in an airplane, but it has been done)

      Well, I guess the bathrooms are pretty small...

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    22. Re:Is there a difference? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Teacher: Your student shouldn't say certain words during class.

      Parent: ... why the fuck not?

    23. Re:Is there a difference? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Interesting. I thought the age of consent in Nevada was 14, which makes it a pretty good US state to use the thought problem on. Oh well, it's still 14 in Canada I think... I heard they tried to change that a couple years ago. They had/have the same problem though: you can pull your dick out in front of them and get it sucked, but you can't show them a picture of it.

    24. Re:Is there a difference? by electrons_are_brave · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There's a difference between sex and porn, though. Sure children shouldn't be taught that sex is somehow wrong or taboo. But the way sex is presented in a lot of porn pandering to male adolescent fantasies that have nothing to do with sex with a real live woman. I have nothing against porn, but children don't need to see women moaning with pleasure when nothing particularly pleasurable is happening to them - it wrong information that leads to urealistic expectations.

    25. Re:Is there a difference? by HiThere · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To an extent I agree with you. The problem is the tremendous range of things that get called porn...all the way down to a woman nursing her child.

      Porn, apparently, is anything that bothers someone somewhere that has any connection however remote to sex.

      I'd be much more in favor of saying that children shouldn't be exposed to violence. That wouldn't work either, but it would make as much sense.

      FWIW, banning the road-runner cartoons for excessive violence is just stupid. STUPID!! Some people seem to think that censorship is the answer to everything. They ban cartoons, but don't stop wars. Which is more violent?

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    26. Re:Is there a difference? by electrons_are_brave · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Agreed, and what I said wasn't meant to extend to some prudish, Victorian attitude about sex. And I have nothing against porn being made that shows women as playthings for men - any man who doesn't know the difference between how women act in the fantasy porno world and how real women respond sexually is ... well limited. But children don't know this - they see is what they see - they have no context to put it in. Besides that, I would have thought that the reason adults wouldn't want to see porn in front of children is simply beacuse it is pornographic - it's meant to arouse or at least titillate. Surely this introduces a certain awkwardness to the family lunch? Recognising that sex is essentially private act and not wanting it to be commodified to sell whatever isn't the same as prudishness.

  6. Comcast missed the point. by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. What, no link ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ok, watch the clip in question here...

    1. Re:What, no link ? by halcyon1234 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm just waiting for someone to post a link to a 30 second long clip of the Super Bowl that ends with no porn.

      BOWLROLLED!

    2. Re:What, no link ? by griffjon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Taken down for TOS violation. Was it because it was porn or because it was rebroadcasting the superbowl?

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  8. Re:FTA by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll show you 30 seconds of full male nudity for $10.

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  9. PPV by Fnord666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Knowing Comcast, I'm surprised they didn't bill everyone for the whole Pay-Per-View movie!

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    1. Re:PPV by JCSoRocks · · Score: 2, Funny

      They probably already did. This $10 credit they speak of is actually just a refund.

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  10. And Somewhere... by AioKits · · Score: 4, Funny

    And somewhere in that mess, someone was enjoying some porno only to have their fantasy broken by the defensive line of the Cardinals.

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    1. Re:And Somewhere... by genner · · Score: 5, Funny

      And somewhere in that mess, someone was enjoying some porno only to have their fantasy broken by the defensive line of the Cardinals.

      Some people are in to that.

    2. Re:And Somewhere... by Shakrai · · Score: 3, Funny

      And somewhere in that mess, someone was enjoying some porno only to have their fantasy broken by the defensive line of the Cardinals.

      Yeah, where's my $10, you bastards? That KY doesn't pay for itself you know.... ;)

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    3. Re:And Somewhere... by hullabalucination · · Score: 2, Funny

      And somewhere in that mess, someone was enjoying some porno only to have their fantasy broken by the defensive line of the Cardinals.

      OK, so I'm confused now. When Al Michaels talked about "going long," was he referring to action on the field or in the porn clip?

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  11. Link? by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we get a link to the Porn?

    I googled "Porn" and nothing came up.

    1. Re:Link? by Fnord666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I googled "Porn" and nothing came up.

      But did it suggest pr0n as an alternate search term?

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  12. Irony... by MojoRilla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Irony... by philipgar · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, this is basically true anytime. If you complain to your cable company and threaten to cancel they will almost always move you to a cheaper rate (assuming you're not on the cheapest introductory rate). They make money off a customer paying $70/month (for cable and internet) and those who pay $100/month. Obviously, they prefer the ones who pay them more. However, they realize that they're better off with a customer paying $70/month than having no customer at all. You just have to be willing to say you want to cancel your account, and either pull the trigger when needed, or hang up before you do.

      Phil

  13. four hours of violent smashing is not porn? by peter303 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    four hours of violent smashing is not porn?

    1. Re:four hours of violent smashing is not porn? by BiAthlon · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're doing it wrong.

  14. It's a broadcast. It may invoke revenue clauses. by fishbowl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  15. Malicious or ignorant? by daveywest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Malicious or ignorant? by TheSync · · Score: 5, Informative

      Reasonable providers (read those that aren't Comcast) will separate adult and non-adult programming onto different QAMs.

      Here is where the problem could have occured:

      1) Video input problem: MSO Satellite Radio tuned to wrong channel. Doubtful because of authentication / encryption. This is more likely if the east coast/west coast feed of the same provider got swapped. Also if the MSO was using an over-the-air TV receiver, that of course can't happen. If the MSO gets a video fiber from the TV station, that might be a fiber carrier routing screw up.

      2) Video router misconfiguration: Ff the satellite radio outputs baseband video, it may go through a video crosspoint swtich (they call them "routers"). The wrong crosspoints between the satellite radios and the modulators (analog tier) or encoders (digital tier)

      3) Multiplexer/CherryPicker misconfiguration: On the digital tier, MPEG-2 programs are multiplexed together into a QAM. It is possible there was a brief misconfiguration.

      Big question - did this happen on the Comcast SD digital tier, HD digital tier, the analog tier, or some combination? If it was both analog and digital SD, I would suspect a video router crosspoint misconfiguration. If it was just digital SD or digital HD, I would suspect a multiplexer misconfiguration.

    2. Re:Malicious or ignorant? by flynt · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Hey, since yours is the only comment modded 4 or higher with any technical knowledge, I have a question for you. We got my mom an HDTV a couple years ago, and she was only paying for basic cable, no digital boxes in the house at all. When we set it up, I did a "channel scan" and the TV picked up some HD channels with numbers like 121.1 (as an example). Many of these were just the big networks HD feeds, like ABC, CBS, etc. But there was a block of channels even higher up that were HD movies. And we'd be watching them, and then all of a sudden they'd flip to a different movie, or rewind itself and play again. I guess we were 'intercepting' some neighbors' on-demand movies. Could this be what happened in AZ during the superbowl? For all I know, that's what you just described, so pardon my ignorance.

    3. Re:Malicious or ignorant? by rsmith-mac · · Score: 2, Informative

      No. Among other reasons why this can't be the case, VoD programming is inserted at the node/neighborhood level, where nodes only serve a couple hundred people at most. If the whole city saw it, the feed came all the way from the top.

  16. Meanwhile, back at the Butt-Bowl . . . by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    ". . . 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!"

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  17. And where's MY ten dollars? by meist3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had to watch 30 seconds of Super Bowl right inbetween my porn. That's so not cool Comcast.

  18. comcast by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So this is the Superbowl "Package" Deal that Comcast was advertising, huh?

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    This guy's the limit!
  19. They're showing the real game... by need4mospd · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

    1. Re:They're showing the real game... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...getting all the way through to the clitoris...

      Judging by your idea of the female anatomy, I would expect your slashdot UID to be lower...

  20. Just like the movie 'Hackers' by Agent0013 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  21. Re:Why by philspear · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why are they apologizing?

    So the masses of idiots who write letters to the FCC urging the immediate nationalization of all TV will be pacified. The FCC was flooded with complaints at the Janet Jackson bit, and I bet they weren't happy with the delay they were forced to put in for all live broadcasts. You can guess at least a few people are so miffed at seeing human body parts that they want more government control.

    It would be nice if they didn't apologize so deeply, grew a spine, and issued a statement that reflected the ridiculousness of this situation, something like

    "We're sorry, that was of course unintentional, and when we find whoever did it they're at least going to lose their job here. Of course, it's not like this is anything too bad, it's anatomy, grow up already and get over it."

  22. Other TV hacks by twistah · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    1. Re:Other TV hacks by ajayrockrock · · Score: 2, Interesting

      What about Spaghetti Cat? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMyHuCVaRaE

  23. Re:isn't this going to get them fined? by furby076 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They claimed to have been hacked. As long as the investigation supports being hacked then no they will not get fined. The FCC is not some ridiculous organization that goes on witch-hunts. Even if it was not a hacker - it was a technical foul-up, not an intended viewing. The FCC are smart enough to realize that computers have glitches and shit happens.

    I could see someone sueing them under the pretense "my baby got scarred from this".

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    I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
  24. Worthless Content-Thieving Parasites... by Dogtanian · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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    "Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
  25. This has happened before with Comcast by Cowmonaut · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  26. 30 Seconds from Tucson by d0n0vAn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!!

  27. *NOT* interested by DrYak · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:*NOT* interested by mustafap · · Score: 5, Funny

      >How does your statement explain the 2nd child? And the 3rd? I'm a 4th child of a married couple

      Alcohol.

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    2. Re:*NOT* interested by Hork_Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mailman.

    3. Re:*NOT* interested by phulegart · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you aren't contributing to the proliferation of the species, you are contributing to it's demise.

      Save your money. Try Suicide instead. No kids, and much cheaper.

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      "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -D. Adams
    4. Re:*NOT* interested by nazsco · · Score: 2, Funny

      that's the most humongous sense of humor ever!

    5. Re:*NOT* interested by ScrewMaster · · Score: 5, Funny

      >How does your statement explain the 2nd child? And the 3rd? I'm a 4th child of a married couple

      Alcohol.

      Catholicism.

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      The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
    6. Re:*NOT* interested by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Catholic Alcoholic Mailman.

    7. Re:*NOT* interested by commodore64_love · · Score: 2, Funny

      The wife milked the man like a cow while he was sleeping, and then injected the sperm into her womb:

      WIFE: "Hey honey! I'm pregnant again!"

      HUSBAND: "What? How? What? We stopped having sex five years ago!"

      WIFE: "Uhhhh..... did you take out the trash? Take my car for inspection? Fix the roof? Mow the lawn?"

      HUSBAND: (runs away to his cave and wonders why he married this shrew)

      WIFE: "Whew. That was close."

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  28. edge of their seats... by howman · · Score: 4, Funny

    was that during the game or the penis flash?

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  29. People noticed? by Lennort · · Score: 4, Funny

    With Madden talking about penetration and strong man hands the whole time I'm surprised anybody even noticed.

  30. comcastsuperbowlporn.com traffic by jabberwock · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I emailed the guy who grabbed the domain and posted the video. Traffic: 178,000-plus the first day.

    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 ...

  31. $10? by linuxosinside · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have claimed developing a porn addiction and demanded free porn for the rest of the year.

  32. Thanks Madden by Main+Gauche · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most amusing was, after they cut back to the SuperBowl, you hear Madden saying "He went to the perfect guy, in the perfect situation."

  33. When I was 17. . . by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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    1. Re:When I was 17. . . by MidnightBrewer · · Score: 4, Funny

      You were pretty lucky. My parents said they were made cute so that they wouldn't be tempted to kill them.

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  34. Bird porn. by hack++slash · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't get it, what's so bad about some superb owl porn?

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  35. Why pay 10 bucks for that when free? by freaker_TuC · · Score: 3, Funny

    While you can have it for free at Comcast?

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    --- 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..
  36. Hrm, you know what... by e-scetic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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?

  37. That's just great .. by Akita24 · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. when are they going to apologize for the 30 seconds of Super Bowl that interrupted my pr0n?

  38. Simple answers to simple questions... by _KiTA_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  39. WoW! by KiwiCanuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    You get $10 to watch 30 seconds of pr0n! I'm quitting my job and moving to Tucson.

  40. A view from Europe by Don_dumb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    If this were really happening, what would you think?
  41. Last penis by Ostracus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Who here that has a penis ISN'T interested in inserting it everywhere?"

    But does it blend? Oh wait!

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    Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
  42. Injecting signals into cable TV by Skapare · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars