The 1987 Max Headroom Pirating Incident

[grrow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion_incident

[chaosmachine]

This is just a cut and paste job from wikipedia. The whole site is spam/stolen content, as far as I can tell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_i...

[jimmybot → chaosmachine]

Though there may be other things wrong with it, given Wikipedia's Creative Commons-Share Alike license, it's certainly not stolen content.

It certainly does make me think about alternative ways of presenting Wikipedia that are more interesting.

[gojomo → jimmybot]

As there's no apparent attribution, the content is being used in violation of the Wikipedia license.

[brandnewlow]

If I was going to buy some air time via Google TV to promote my Chicago news aggregator, this is what I'd do.

[RevRal]

Although it's fake, the Wyoming incident is pretty interesting:

(Possibly NSFW and a little creepy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHkW0aKHRc

It's like an internet campfire ghost story about a hijacked broadcast.