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MobiTV CEO backs off - blames his lawyers for legal threats »www.news.com/8301-13578_3-988902···1_3-0-20
MobiTV, a company that streams television channels to mobile devices, has backed away from its threats to censor a mobile forum Web site and pull the plug on its domain name. Lawyers for the Emeryville, Calif., company had threatened the owner of HowardForums.com on March 4, saying that users of the Web site had posted an illegal link that allows anyone to watch television channels such as MSNBC or the Discovery Channel over the Internet for free without registering. But after a firestorm of protest arose online, with Internet users saying that MobiTV should add greater security rather than dispatching their lawyers, the company backed down on Friday afternoon. ...statement from MobiTV co-founder and president Paul Scanlan, which we left unedited: quote:
Howard, great catching up today. Again, we're big fans of the sight and our intention was never to bring your entire sight down or to "censor the Internet" like we're being accused. The irony is that is quite the opposite type of company we are and as one of the leaders in new media, we couldn't be more supportive of the rights of sights like yours. Please know that our first priority is always to fix any security issues with our system and we're doing that. Additionally, we also have a responsibility to our content and carrier partners to reduce the impact of any breaches to the system once they occur and that was really the basis for the correspondence you had with our legal team.
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join:0000-00-00 | Problem remains.
DMCA was sent. Host can still act on it at any time.
Bullshit sent from the President to Howard that did not resolve or finalize the issue. Nor was it an apology for the incident. It was simple back peddling to cover his ass and hope that HoFO does not counter sue them for frivolous claims.
That last contact also contradicts what the lawyer claimed.
Now, who to believe? The lawyer that has sworn that he was authorized to initiate a takedown or the President who says that was never their intent?
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The original article at news.com says that MobiTV threatened to not only have HowardForums' content removed under DMCA, but to have his domain registration revoked through ICANN. The latter threat is what they backed away from. This is a significant piece of news that was not previously reported (at least that I saw).
Reading between the lines -- "we also have a responsibility to our content and carrier partners to reduce the impact of any breaches to the system once they occur" -- they feel that their original request to have the post pulled was justified, but they now realize the cat is out of the bag and are giving up on that, too. Even the news.com article is posting the deep URLs that give access to their content.
It sounds like MoviTV is now in the process of redoing their (poor) security.
Sounds like this story is about over. |
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kudos:5 | said by MyDogHsFleas:It sounds like MoviTV is now in the process of redoing their (poor) security. Sounds like this story is about over. Yes. they did fix their security:
»MobiTV closed the security holes
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