Howardforums, MobiTV dispute
p2pnet news | Mobiles:- MobiTV, which sellsTV services on Sprint Nextel cell phones, wants to shut down an online forum carrying instructions on how to access to its channels for free, says Associated Press.
"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," says the story.
Howardforums, one of the oldest established mobile phone forums, refused to comply, so MobiTV asked the site’s host, Global Net Access, to shut down the site, says the story.
But, "okay guys. I just had a conversation with the president of MobiTV," states Howardforums, namely >>>
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.
I look forward to continuing to find interesting and vibrant insights from HowardForums.
Best regards,
Paul Scanlan
Cofounder, President
So, "I guess everything is okay now," says Howardforums, adding:
"Thank you all for your support! Never doubt the power of the community!"
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Also See:
Associated Press – MobiTV Seeks to Shut Down Web Forum, March 7, 2008
Howardforums – Statement from the President of MobiTV* MobiTv and HowardForums – everything is cool now, March 6, 2008
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March 8th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Nice to see that being illiterate doesn’t stop one from become president of a company.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Suckers! instead of using the oppoutunity to fix the loophole in their service they want to shut down the website for exposing the loophole. I going to check out the forum and see if I can get some free MobiTV Suckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!