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Comcast apologises for porn
Network wardrobe malfunction
Tue Feb 03 2009, 10:53
CABLE OUTFIT Comcast is investigating why viewers watching the Super Bowl coverage on Sunday were treated to 30 seconds of a blue movie.
The hard core apparently was not for Comcast's high definition customers but only affected those who had standard definition, which was a pity because we thought porn was the killer ap for HD.
The outfit has written to the FCC to say sorry but believes that its network might have been hacked. µ
L'Inq
Wall Street Journal
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I think it's some kind of ritual salad the USians eat every year to give thanks for being able to colonize the New World.
Porn is far more enjoyable than a bowl, even a super one.
I think the main reason the FCC went bonkers before (now that I think about it) was that the whole Janet Jackson thing was not only broadcast over cable, but more importantly broadcast over the air waves unscrambled. The FCC has a lot less say over what cable TV provides their paying customers then what is broadcast unscrambled to the World in general.
But still it was a flapping penis... Maybe Comcst does not have as many veiwers as they used to have, as they are not doing so well right now.
A forty-year-old titty on Super Bowl sunday almost grinds a nation to a halt, provokes days of headlines, the threat of a Congressional hearing, not to mention weeks of Oprah blabbering, whilst a full-blown, hardcore, in-the-buff 30-second interruption of another Super Bowl provokes . . barely a headline for some online rags (no offense, Inq, I like your rag) ?!? Is it me, or is there somewhat of a scale issue ? By all rights, the religious fundamentalists should be converging in droves on Comcast headquarters with a rope and even a tree (just in case), and murder in their eyes. So, where's the outrage on this ?
Comcast considered throttling the bandwidth for that transmission?
Gee and you thought seeing one of Janet Jackson's nipples on screan was bad enough... of course this seems to be getting much less press that a bearly seen nipple. I guess a penis flapping around the screan is no big deal. I guess I am lucky I have Charter :). That would be pretty bad though if this was because of a hacker. I do not think any hacker could keep that one silent and would be bragging on ever message board what he did.