MobiTV Seeks to Shut Down Web Forum
Found on PhysOrg on Friday, 07 March 2008
MobiTV sent a letter to Howardforums.com, asking the site to take down links that provide MobiTV streams from Fox News, MSNBC, Animal Planet and other networks when entered in the Web browsers of certain phones.
"These feeds do not appear to be protected in any way, and it appears anyone with a compatible phone can view them," Chui wrote in a posting. He questioned why MobiTV was operating its service without authenticating its subscribers.
A MobiTV lawyer responded that the specific MobiTV Web address was obtained in violation of the company's intellectual property rights, according to Chui.
An unprotected link, available to everybody who's online, isn't really something I'd call secure and un-postable. In fact, all this says a lot about the security at MobiTV; or the lack thereof. Plus, as we've learned not too long ago (again), trying to supress leaked information only blows everything up. Hundreds of thousands of people would have never heard of it, but now they know how to use their service for free. There's not even the need to post the URL: thanks to the superior security over at MobiTV, all you need to do is search for sprintTVlive on Google. The first hit is the link in question, and I'm sure that took "a hacker and debugging" done by Google.