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Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack"
Urban Strata writes "Popular mobile phone community HowardForums.com is being hit with take-down notices from MobiTV. At issue is the fact that a HowardForums community member uncovered a publicly accessible URL for MobiTV's television stream. This URL is not encrypted or authenticated in any way, and yet MobiTV sent site owner Howard Chui a cease-and-desist letter for hosting a forum with the public URL, claiming that doing so is equivalent to hacking their service."
I wonder how much their lawyer bills each time he has to send out a C&D for posting a link to qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd.
Lookit me! I'm hacking the pentagon! And the CIA! And the FBI!
Hold on, one moment--someone's knocking.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
So I guess this means /.ers will now change their sig from 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 to qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd....
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Is it wrong to walk into a gym
FAIL. This is slashdot, you're supposed to make car analogies.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
A recipe for misdirection:
* 1 link to "private" content
* 1 cup TinyURL(c) brand address shortening
* 2 lbs. unauthorized access
* 1 content owner
* An army of lawyers
Preheat oven to "Litigation". Route link through address shortening. Mix with unauthorized access, and let rise until content owner exclaims "IT IS TEH HAXORZ!1". Apply army of lawyers liberally to TinyURL for providing access to content. Place in preheated oven and bake until lawsuit reaches a golden brown. Cool before serving.
(Note: Recipe not tested.)
And I'm within mine telling them to piss up a rope.
Is it wrong to walk into a car?
The best part of the cease-and-desist exchange was this:
"Originally Posted by mobitv
The url "qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd" is not publicly available, nor is it posted anywhere on our website for viewers to access. The only way to access the links is through this url, and the only way to obtain this url is through hacking/debugging."
mobitv posted their "secret" URL in a message on the forum. So much for the trade secret claim.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
If you don't want people looking at your naked ass all day, put your pants on in the morning.
You must be new here.
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FAIL. Your tag-fu sucks!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
A better analogy is: Is it okay to work out on gym equipment that someone has set up in your house, but not given you permission to use? The answer is yes, because it's my fucking house.
... say someone took a bad analogy and stretched it even further, charging an arbitrary fee to read it ... would you be opposed to gay marriage?
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Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.
Getting something you should not, and for free, is stealing? Wow, I hope you kept the receipt for that law education. You need a refund.
It's clueless posts like this that prove a low UID on /. is meaningless. I'm actually glad that I used all of my mod points because I would have wasted a -1 troll on you.
That's not the way to karma whore on Slashdot. To get the most out of it, you have to mark the porn channels!
In a country where someone can spill hot coffee on themselves and win a lawsuit because the coffee was hot , please define an unhealthy dose of willful ignorance.
Mean what you say...say what you mean.
Stop, Thief!