GadgetRatty: Sprint and MobiTV Try to Shutter Howard Forums Over Posted URL [MobiTV]

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Sprint and MobiTV Try to Shutter Howard Forums Over Posted URL [MobiTV]

2008-03-07 20:00:06 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo

MobiTV is the mobile TV provider for Sprint, which costs $20 a month. They'd keep content they charged you for protected, so freeloaders couldn't swoop in and pick up the same streams, right? Wrong. By punching in qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd, anyone can access the streams. That info was posted on Howard Forums, and now MobiTV is claiming that posting that information violates their intellectual property rights. A publicly accessible URL. So they're trying to shutdown Howard Forums entirely.

Howard Chui, the site's founder has always complied with requests to pull down bootlegged software, so he's not a willy-nilly copyright violator. It's kind of like the HD DVD key debacle last year, except the stench of bullshit is even stronger, since we're just talking about a frickin' URL that MobiTV and Sprint didn't take even the most basic cautions to protect. We hope Howard prevails over both their ridiculous takedown request. [Yahoo!]