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."

Comments

Re:Well, what did you expect?

[Ngarrang]

Is it wrong? Yes

No. There is nothing wrong with visiting a publicly available URL. No exceptions.

So, if someone walks into your house while the front door is open and sits on your couch, it must be okay...because you left the front door open. Right?