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When a satellite hijacked your HBO movie

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Imagine settling in for a premium cable movie in the late 90s, only for a rogue satellite to violently overwrite your signal. Thanks to accidental feed slip crossovers, highly guarded corporate broadcasts would occasionally get hijacked by random, unencrypted feeds from neighboring transponders, treating viewers to raw, uncensored news b-roll or weird religious programming.

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