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Max Headroom Video Pirate Incident in Chicago on 11/22/1987

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Posted for your enjoyment... Clips from newscasts following the Max headroom video pirate that broke into the signal on two Chicago television stations on November 22, 1987.

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  • Anonymous is older than we thought. 

  • Come On! This was 1987. There was no way the FCC or FBI could have traced the signal back to that source. The technology just wasn't there at that time. Whoever made that transmission is surely still alive, well, footloose, and fancy-free...And probably in their 50's to 70's by now.

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  • ''began to hijack briefly and illegaly''

    oh we didnt know that shit was illegal

  • 3:13 i hate his voice.

  • The 80's troll face BEFORE the internet!

  • @wd40isgreat The old guys who pulled it off probably still laughed themselves to their last breath.

  • @furrmie6 And all those guys with grey hair, the FCC Engineers and reporter, are probably dead by now.

  • lol at the lady at 3:58 saying to the news that she taped copyrighted material.

  • I remember when this happened... My friends and I were watching Dr.Who and we were like "What happened?" At the time Max Headroom was the man. We laughed hard and on the floor at the spanking. I was 14 yrs old. Watching channel 11.

  • Well, it was a stupid thing, both what he did on camera, and the fact that he/she did it. But So what? It's not like he broadcast porn, or how to make an atom bomb... As far as their air time goes, these stupid news shows waste that much time laughing and fake hamming it up right at the end of the show to boost ratings. What corporate Dxxk suckers, I hate that fakeness.

  • I love the last one referring to the spanking. "The man's punishment will be FAR WORSE if he's caught..."

  • the first troll before the internet

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