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American Exxxtasy.txt
http://oddity-archive.wikia.com/wiki/American_EXXXtasy
American EXXXtasy
Season 1, Episode 5
Vital statistics
Air date August 30, 2012
Written by Ben Minnotte
Directed by Ben Minnotte
"American EXXXtasy" is the fifth episode of Oddity Archive.
Contents
Summary
Ben looks at old pornographic-related cable and satellite services, and tries to set out to right a major childhood wrong.
Riffs
* American EXXXtasy (Late 1980s)
* The Spice Channel (1995)
* Eros America Commercial (1983)
* Many other adult services
Running Gags
* Opening Theme: "The Lady in Red" by Chris De Burgh
* Closing Theme: "Auto-Manipulator" by Crispin Glover
* Company Name: Turn Your Crank To Frank Productions
* Very End Clip: Ben saying "Suddenly and forever".
* The Show That: "is that piece of bacon floating around in your baked beans."
* Cardboard Box: Black and white man with a cigar
* Join Us Next Time: "When we discuss the film Throw Momma from the Train." (gets slapped) "OW!!! It was just a joke!" (gets slapped again) "Ow!!! Oh...."
Special Guests
* Oddity Archive Sexy Voiceover: Louisa Giffard
* Satellite Dish Rep: Sebastian Villegas
Trivia
* This episode was formerly only available on Blip, but since the Archive's suspension from the site, it is now on YouTube.
* This the first episode with special guest stars.
* This is the only episode of the Oddity Archive to have been age-restricted by YouTube, which means that those under the age of 18 will recieve a generic error message instead of the actual video.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ATxh6VA46hs?wmode=opaque
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRjr6uImXs
American Exxxtasy Descrambler (1985)
jcice3
Uploaded on Mar 16, 2008
North American C-Band satellite dish users in the 1980s will undoubtedly remember the notorious adult channel "American Exxxtasy". As backyard dishes became more common, so did the scrambling of satellite-delivered channels. In this ad, American Exxxtasy introduces their own proprietary system known simply as the "American Exxxtasy Descrambler". They would eventually switch to the Videocipher II encryption around 1987.
Forgive the poor video quality - it was ripped from a (well-used) 20+ year old VHS tape.
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http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/the-american-exxxtasy-channel.146603/
I am a movie collector and one of the things I am trying to find is some air tapes of a satellite channel from the 80s called American Exxxtasy. I imagine there are a lot of old schoolers here that have been doing the satellite hobby for decades, and someone HAS to have tapes somewhere. I just want to experience the nostalgia of those breakers and promos. The movies themselves are not important to me. I just want to go back in the Wayback Machine and see what we used to try and peek at over at my grade school friend's house.
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My memory may be fading on the subject, but if I recall correctly, I thought that the whole American Exxxtasy shutting down fiasco started because some high-school kids were caught bootlegging video from that channel, and one of the important points is that they were using a modified VC2 decoder to obtain the programming without paying?
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from what I remember American xxxtasy wasn't on 24/7 , it started at night ( same as Playboy) but they would give you a freebie , the 1st feature was free and the rest were scrambled
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Davage was right, and I believe it was high school kids in Montgomery (capitol) who were selling bootleg copies of pirated porn-movies. Our caped crusader AG at the time filed suit against the programmer, the uplinker, forget who that was at the time, and a few other states joined in. Our 'yutes' had to be protected. lol
In the end, they agreed to just block subcriptions to those 6 states. Maybe the former AG wasn't as powerful as he thought, he was unable to totally shut down the business. The programmer and uplinker prob feared a cascade of similar legal actions, and caved.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b2-R7bTPsC4
Videocipher II advert
PhakeNam
Uploaded on Jan 6, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocip...
This was the first consumer scrambling system. It began testing in 1985 on HBO satellite transponders on Satcom 3R and Galaxy 1 and entered full use in January 1986 by HBO, and within two years was used by a majority of major cable television programmers. However, lapses in its security enabled some cable pirates to modify the descrambler to receive free programming. Beginning in 1991, programmers began to phase out the VCII system in favor of the highly secure Videocipher II Plus (RS) system. The system was fully phased out in 1993
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETBf-KqoaU
American Exxxtasy Sign Off Loop
drripco
Uploaded on Nov 10, 2010
Must of been recorded a day or two after March 9,1990 when the uplink service cut off the feed for American Exxxtasy, a porn channel on c-band satellite due to lawsuits. There are 3 different messages that loop.
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James Stanley Barr3 months ago
Back when GTE still owned the old Spacenet satellites. One of the first cable channels to be brought down by obscenity laws. And if I recall correctly, Tuxxedo met the same fate as Exxxtasy....taken down by the satellite's owner over obscenity fears. (In Tuxxedo's case, it was Hughes which owned the Galaxy satellites at the time.) It pretty much destroyed their mainstream non-porn service "Stardust Theatre" and caused Home Dish (the parent company) to go bankrupt.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/02/us/obscenity-law-used-in-alabama-breaks-new-york-company.html
Obscenity Law Used In Alabama Breaks New York Company
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: May 2, 1990
Two months ago the Home Dish Satellite Corporation was a flourishing New York City company, beaming hard-core sex films to 30,000 subscribers around the country and soft-core ones to 1.2 million customers.
But among the homes receiving the transmissions were about 50 in Montgomery County, Ala., where the District Attorney has vowed to stamp out pornography. Now the company finds itself driven out of business.
It is facing criminal charges in what lawyers say is the first case in which local obscenity laws are being applied to programs carried nationwide by satellite technology.
New York's Governor, Mario M. Cuomo, has been asked to extradite Home Dish's four officers, who have never set foot in Alabama, to face charges that they violated Alabama's obscenity law.
In addition to Home Dish, some major companies involved in its satellite transmission were also indicted. As a result, they refused to do business with Home Dish, and the company has been forced into bankruptcy.
States have been prosecuting people on obscenity charges since the early 19th century, and the Home Dish case raises again the issue of differing community standards in tolerating pornography. But it also involves the question of how the threat of legal action in one community can so frighten distributors that such materials may not be freely disseminated elsewhere in the country.
Civil liberties officials have decried the prosecution as a threat to First Amendment rights and say the Montgomery County District Attorney, Jimmy Evans, brought the case against the company because he is running for State Attorney General, an office he sought unsuccessfully four years ago.
Mr. Evans did not return repeated telephone calls; an aide said he was busy campaigning. But his senior assistant, Steven Feaga, said the charges were brought because the films offended the standards of the local community. "I think they would offend any community," he said.
The Alabama law is modeled on a 1974 Supreme Court opinion in which obscenity was defined in part as works that offend local community standards. Last year, the Alabama Legislature amended the law to include satellite transmissions. Mr. Feaga said the investigation was begun after a parent complained that children at a junior high school were selling copies of films broadcast by a Home Dish subsidiary, the American Exxxstasy Channel.
American Exxxstasy featured X-rated films that show explicit sexual acts and had about 30,000 customers around the nation, of which 22 were in Montgomery County, Ala. To receive American Exxxstasy, satellite dish owners paid Home Dish $20 a month or $60 a year.
Home Dish also operated the Tuxxedo channel, which beamed R-rated films by satellite to cable companies that then made them available to about 1.2 million customers. About 30 Montgomery County residents paid $4.95 a month for the Tuxxedo service.
Big Concerns Are Charged
On Feb. 14, Mr. Evans announced indictments against Home Dish Satellite as well as some of the nation's largest telecommunications companies and their officers based on the films provided by American Exxxstasy. The companies charged by the grand jury were the GTE Corporation, the GTE Spacenet Corporation, and United States Satellite Inc. GTE and GTE Spacenet operate the satellite that carried American Exxxstasy, and United States Satellite provided service of getting the programs to the satellite, or acting as the "uplink."
Within days of the indictments, all of the companies involved in carrying satellite signals ended their contracts with Home Dish, citing the Alabama charges. Other satellite companies and "uplink" concerns declined to carry Home Dish's Exxstasy channel. Hughes Communications also cut off Home Dish from sending its R-rated Tuxxedo service.
"We were out of business at that point," said Jeffrey J. Younger, the president of Home Dish, which he said had aspired to become "the HBO of the adult film industry." Last week, Mr. Evans announced that a grand jury had indicted the Tuxxedo network as well.
Norman Dorsen, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union who is one of the lawyers defending Home Dish, said, it was "shocking to think that Alabama could reach out and chill free speech in all 50 states."
Mark Ellison, chief counsel for the Satellite Broadcasting Communications Association, a trade group, said he was especially troubled by the indictment of the Tuxxedo network, because it did not show X-rated movies but R-rated films with no explicit depiction of sexual acts.
Broader Problem Is Seen
"If there's any kind of trouble with Tuxxedo," he said, "there's potential trouble for all the major cable companies like HBO, Cinemax and the Movie Channel." Those companies offer similar films, he said.
Paul Sherman, a New York City lawyer representing Home Dish with Mr. Dorsen, said that under New York state law a person may not be extradited to another state unless the crime he is charged with is one that would be a violation of New York law. "This stuff is surely not a crime in New York," he said.
Evan Davis, Governor Cuomo's counsel, said through a spokesman that he had not yet studied the extradition request from Gov. Guy Hunt of Alabama. Mr. Evans has not sought the extradition of the six other people indicted, including the chairman of GTE.
Prof. Thomas G. Krattenmaker at Georgetown University Law School said it was generally accepted in communications law that companies licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as common carriers are not responsible for the content of what they carry. The telephone companies, for example, are not liable for the so-called dial-a-porn services, although a bill is pending in Congress to change that.
Under Supreme Court decisions, the issue of whether films or books violate local standards is ultimately a question for a jury. Mr. Dorsen said he believed Alabama's contemporary community standards were surely not the same as in many if not most other states.
But Mr. Feaga disagreed. "I think the average New Yorker viewing these films would also view them as obscene," he said.
Mr. Feaga said that he understood that such films were freely available in New York, but he said that did not represent any difference in community standards but rather an unwillingness of the New York authorities to enforce the law.
Montgomery County includes the state capital of Montgomery, one of the fastest growing cities in the South, and two Air Force bases.
Since Mr. Evans began his campaign against pornography, no X-rated films have been offered at the 30 to 40 video stores in the city although many offer the R-rated movies.
Mr. Evans lost a court battle in 1984 to stop distribution of what he said were obscene magazines, and convenience stores continue to sell Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Mr. Feaga said the District Attorney's office had been successful in shutting down drive-in movies and businesses that offered private viewing booths for pornographic films.
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http://articles.dailypress.com/1990-09-12/news/9009130203_1_playboy-channel-cbn-character-generator
`Satellite Piracy' Trial Of Cbn Technician Opens
Man Accused Of Interrupting Adult Channels
September 12, 1990|By KIRK SAVILLE Staff Writer
The television picture went fuzzy for almost two seconds. Then white letters on a black background appeared.
"Thus sayeth the Lord thy God ... remember the sabath, (sic) and keep it holy. Repent. The kingdom of God is at hand!" the message read.
Thomas M. Haynie, 38, a technician with the Christian Broadcasting Network of Virginia Beach, is facing trial on charges he sent the messages to American Exxxtasy and the Playboy channel.
Opening statements in his "satellite piracy" case were presented Tuesday in U.S. District Court, where Haynie is accused of interrupting the two soft-core pornographic cable television stations with three religious messages in 1987.
"You can probably guess people watching the American Exxxtasy Channel that night did not expect to see that particular piece of programming," Assistant U.S. Attorney James Wilson, told a jury Tuesday.
The message twice interrupted programming on American Exxxtasy and once on the Playboy channel. If convicted, Haynie could be sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $250,000.
Wilson gave the jury a lesson in the workings of communications satellites and television. He said the Federal Communications Commission, using sophisticated tests, was able to single out the CBN satellite transmission center out of 170 centers in North America as the source of the message.
But Stephen Story, Haynie's attorney, said the signal sent over satellite was of poor quality by the time it was beamed into space, back to earth and onto the videotape. He said the degradation in the signal quality meant measurements done by investigators were inaccurate.
Wilson said the FCC was able to identify the type of character generator, a type of video typewriter, that was used to print the messages. Wilson said only six centers in North America have that type of character generator and are capable of sending the message.
Investigators found that measurements of the letters in the messages corresponded to the settings of the CBN character generator, Wilson contended.
Tests also showed the period of fuzziness at the beginning of the messages was almost the exact period it took for CBN's transmitting center to send the signal, he said.
Finally, Haynie was the only person at work the night the messages were sent, Wilson said.
But Story countered by saying the FCC only investigated licensed satellite centers, failing to look into unlicensed centers capable of sending the messages.
Widely available personal computers could also generate the same type of characters that prosecutors said were generated by CBN, Story said.
Security measures at CBN would also have made it risky for Haynie to attempt to transmit the messages, Story said.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
In 1986, a Florida man calling himself Captain Midnight interfered with satellite feeds and knocked out Home Box Office programming. The man was fined $5,000 and placed on probation for a year.
CBN was founded by television minister Pat Robertson.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/us/company-that-beamed-sex-films-is-fined.html
Company That Beamed Sex Films Is Fined
AP
Published: February 17, 1991
A Federal judge has fined a New York-based company $150,000 for broadcasting pornographic movies by satellite to some 30,000 subscribers throughout the continental United States.
In imposing the sentence on Friday, the judge, David Winder of Federal District Court, accepted an agreement between the Government and the defendant, Home Dish Only Satellite Networks, in which the company pleaded guilty to a single count of broadcasting an obscene film via satellite.
The agreement calls for the erasing of the company's taped movies and for the principals of the company, which is now defunct, not to promote or distribute sexually explicit films. In exchange, the Government agreed not to prosecute the principals, Paul L. Klein and Jeffrey Younger, personally.
The company operated the American Exxxtasy Channel. Its movies, beamed to a satellite for relay to subscribers, were scrambled so they could be received only by subscribers, who paid $260 a year for the Exxxtasy Channel. But the company advertised each night in unscrambled commercials that detailed the films' explicit nature.
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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/135220/NY-FIRM-GUILTY-OF-SHIPPING-PORN-TO-UTAH.html?pg=all
N.Y. FIRM GUILTY OF SHIPPING PORN TO UTAH
By Marianne Funk, Staff Writer
Published: Friday, Nov. 30 1990 12:00 a.m. MST
A New York company that shipped hard-core pornographic movies to Utah for satellite transmission to 30,000 homes pleaded guilty to a federal obscenity charge Thursday and will pay a $150,000 fine.
Federal obscenity charges were filed in Salt Lake City against Home Dish Only Satellite Networks Inc. Similar charges were filed against the company in Buffalo, N.Y. The company entered a guilty plea in a New York federal court.HDO began operating in 1986 on its American Exxxtasy Channel. The company used U.S. Satellite Inc. of Murray, Utah, to electronically transmit the broadcast signal to a GTE Spacenet Corp. satellite.
"They broadcast from Murray 12 hours a day, 365 days a year for several years," said Richard Lambert, assistant U.S. attorney.
The Murray company was not prosecuted because it cooperated with the investigation and shut down the transmissions last March, said Dee V. Benson, U.S. attorney in Utah. U.S. Satellite Inc. is a subsidiary of the Utah-based Skaggs Telecommunications Services Inc.
The satellite beamed the broadcast to individual subscribers throughout the continental United States, Lambert said. HDO charged $260 a year for subscription to the channel.
HDO's American Exxxtasy channel broadcast hard-core feature-length movies such as "Ramb-Ohh Sex Platoon" and "Hard-core Girlfriends."
The company's films and short movies were scrambled so they could only be received by subscribers. But the company advertised subscriptions to its American Exxxtasy Channel every night from 6 to 8 using commercials that displayed the explicit nature of the films available on the channel.
Those commercials were not scrambled and could be received by any satellite dish owner, Benson said.
In Buffalo, the company pleaded guilty to one felony count of transmitting an obscene promotional movie, "Hot Shorts," on Feb. 25, 1990, from Buffalo. It also agreed to plead guilty to a separate felony charge in Salt Lake City of transmitting the movie "Hard-core Girlfriends" the next day.
The "Hot Shorts" promotional films were beamed in the early evening to owners of satellite dish receivers to advertise the explicit nature of the films available from American Exxxtasy, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Federal officials in Utah did not realize the hardcore movies were being transmitted to the satellite from Utah until a Montgomery, Ala., district attorney brought charges against HDO. U.S. Satellite Inc. and GTE, Lambert said. "After the Alabama investigation, we initiated our investigation."
Last month, HDO pleaded guilty to a state obscenity charge in Montgomery, Ala., and was fined $5,000.
HDO went out of business in March after a grand jury issued subpoenas that signaled a federal investigation, Benson said.
The investigation of HDO was the first conducted under a 1988 federal law prohibiting satellite and cable broadcasting of obscenity, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said in a press statement Thursday.
HDO's two principal officers have agreed to refrain from distributing pornography in the future and will turn all pornographic tapes over to the Department of Justice for destruction, the statement said.
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