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?
Belief? Hope? Preference?The Existential Vortex
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.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
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...
I'll show you 30 seconds of full male nudity for $10.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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
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
Can we get a link to the Porn?
I googled "Porn" and nothing came up.
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.
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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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.
". . . 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!
-- ssoorrrryy,, dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh oonn.. -Quote found on actual fortune cookie.
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."
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
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".
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
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.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
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.
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.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
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 ...
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.
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?
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.
You get $10 to watch 30 seconds of pr0n! I'm quitting my job and moving to Tucson.
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?
"Who here that has a penis ISN'T interested in inserting it everywhere?"
But does it blend? Oh wait!
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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