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@videotron.ca | Evan Stone and busty brunnette during superbowl Hi! Could someone tell me who was the girl unzipping Evan Stone pants during Superbowl? Thanks | |
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ohandohtwome
@comcast.net | Even still.... It violates FCC regulations And I hope the FCC and every other agencie that can, comes down on Comcast like a ton of bricks. "Oh but it was an accident. One of our new technicians pushed the wrong button." Big deal! Janet Jackson's boob just accidently popped out too! | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Re: Even still.... It violates FCC regulations Except that it does not violate FCC regulations. Cable can show porno and foul language. | |
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Travelfan1
RIP Analog Go Digital
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Iselin, NJ
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| Re: Even still.... It violates FCC regulations said by Eat Me  :Except that it does not violate FCC regulations. Cable can show porno and foul language. It shows porn and foul language on MA-rated channels and/or Pay-per-view channels, not during G/PG programming like Superbowl.
If a young 5-8 year old child was exposed to the kind of images that Comcast showed during a G/PG show like the Superbowl, it would require lots of child therapy sessions to undo the damage. And who is Comcast think it's kidding when they think $10 bucks cover even the copayment for a therapy session?
I sincerely hope FCC levies a huge fine on Comcast this time, because for much less, CBS was fined by FCC. And I do hope Comcast find the bozo employees that made this prank, fire them and that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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| Re: Even still.... It violates FCC regulations said by Travelfan1 :If a young 5-8 year old child was exposed to the kind of images that Comcast showed during a G/PG show like the Superbowl, it would require lots of child therapy sessions to undo the damage. I kind of doubt that. I'm guessing that a 5-year-old seeing a guy flapping his penis around would laugh hysterically.
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DaveNJ
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join:1999-09-01
New Jersey | I wonder if V-chip tvs blanked the screen. Would the V-chips sets still work in this instance ? | |
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attuser
join:2008-08-13
Grayslake, IL | lol they spelled Tuscon wrong Its Tucson, not Tuscon. | |
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kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
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| How could this have technically happened? Just curious, as someone who's interested in the technical aspects of how cable systems work, how was this prank achieved? Did this only effect analog users, or digital users also that didn't watch the game in HD? I'm assuming in order for this to occur, someone at the local headend must've routed the adult channel to the transmitter carrying the Superbowl broadcast? I'm just curious how this technically would've been acomplished. | |
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| patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: How could this have technically happened? said by kd6cae :Just curious, as someone who's interested in the technical aspects of how cable systems work, how was this prank achieved? Did this only effect analog users, or digital users also that didn't watch the game in HD? I'm assuming in order for this to occur, someone at the local headend must've routed the adult channel to the transmitter carrying the Superbowl broadcast? I'm just curious how this technically would've been acomplished. Encryption key update packet might have been screwed up to redirect the TV to a new frequency or a different MPEG stream in the QAM stream. | |
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| magnushsi
join:2002-11-06
Cedar Springs, MI
| I can tell you that there no way this was an accident. It would be almost impossible for a malfunction to cause this. Even if it was crossed streams on the QAM device, no provider in their right mind would have PORN and normal broadcast video on the same devices. Typically they are clustered such that PPV, etc are on the same devices, frequencies. Then on top of it, Club Jenna would be encrypted where as NBC is most likely not. This is 100% an inside job. Someone had to know what they were doing to make this happen. | |
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EdgeDecoderHack
@charter.com
| In digital TV transport systems used commonly by cable companies, often the MPEG streams are multicast to multiple sites over GigE or better. One or more site receives the channels and converts them to MPEG streams for distribution to multiple other sites.
At the destination headend, the the digital-to-analog broadcast devices (edge decoders) are configured to pick out the channels they want by IP and port assignments, convert the stream to analog, and send it out on a particular channel.
Someone could've logged in to the edge decoder and reprogrammed it to pick up a different MPEG stream by changing the multicast IP and port.
It would explain the freeze and tile action that occured on the analog channel during the switch. | |
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anooooonnnn
@comcast.net | all i know is... i got free cable out of this opportunity!  | |
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@myvzw.com | . It all sounds like an inside job | |
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DigitalCableGuy
@rr.com
| How this could have happened Well as someone who works in the field of digital video, I can make a pretty good assumption on how this was done.
Tuscon is probably a full digital plant and uses gear to modulate IP based multicast video into analog feeds. They also probably use some sort of muxing gear to combine the various feeds coming in from different sat receivers to build their digital broadcast feed as either directly connected transport streams or as multicast MPTS/SPTS feed to distributed QAM modulation gear.
It would not be that difficult for someone with even the slightest bit of operational knowledge to go into the muxing gear and change the mapping of the broadcast feed to the porn feed and then change it back again. Most of this muxing gear uses either a web based interface or a windows box using a drag and drop control program.
If you do this to the digital SD feed, it would affect only the SD version, and if the analog gear is modulating the digital SD feed into RF, it would also affect the analog customers as well.
I doubt this was any kind of errant update or encryption key swap due to the timing and rapid transition. Most updates of that level take a longer period of time to propagate out through a cable plant an would hit the boxes at various times, not at the exact same moment. | |
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| Re: How this could have happened That is the most likely scenario. Someone may have gained entry into their in-house network somehow and did a MPEG video route on a statmux on the video source for NBC SD. Normally each piece of equipment would be encrypted password protected so an inside job would be likely but a skilled outside hacker with enough motivation certainly could have gotten in too. Also, sometimes the equipment vendors may be given VPN access and admin rights on the equipment.
Too often passwords are kept somewhere on an unencrypted document that could have been pulled from an employee's PC. It'll be interesting to see what Comcast says happened. I bet it turns out to be a pimply faced 12 year old computer kid that didn't bother to cover his online tracks. He'll be the hit of his middle school! 8^) | |
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