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Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack"

Posted by kdawson on from the genius-iq-not-required dept.

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."

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  1. Lawyer fees by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Sekrit Government Haxx0ring by KublaiKhan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lookit me! I'm hacking the pentagon! And the CIA! And the FBI!

    Hold on, one moment--someone's knocking.

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    A stately pleasure dome decree
    1. Re:Sekrit Government Haxx0ring by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would say I'll visit you in prison, but I'm not allowed to travel to Cuba.

      On the bright side, I hear the conditions there aren't so bad. Rumor has it that they'll give you all the water you can drink, even if you're not thirsty!

  3. Time to change your sig by Itninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Time to change your sig by MBGMorden · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why change when you can have both!!!!?!?!!

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      "People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
  4. Re:Well, what did you expect? by alexhs · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is nothing wrong with visiting a publicly available URL. No exceptions. I guess you never stumbled upon a goatse or tubgirl publicly available link, then :P
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  5. Re:Well, what did you expect? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it wrong to walk into a gym

    FAIL. This is slashdot, you're supposed to make car analogies.

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  6. Re:Well, what did you expect? by MobileMrX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it wrong to walk into a car?

  7. Give me a break! by Babu+'God'+Hoover · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you don't want people looking at your naked ass all day, put your pants on in the morning.

  8. Re:Well, what did you expect? by Anarke_Incarnate · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.