MobiTV mad that their public streaming URL was discovered
March 7, 2008 – 12:27 pm
MobiTV provides a paid service that allows you to stream TV to mobile phones. However, the data stream is sent using a completely open URL that anyone can access.
Someone over at HowardForums noticed this and posted the URL of the feed. MobiTV has responded; not by securing the feed, but by threatening to take down HowardForums. They’ve contacted his web host and they’ve threatened to contact the registrar.
Mike Masnick, as always, has summed it up best:
There is no hacking going on. There is no encryption broken. There is nothing illicit whatsoever. The feed is a public URL. However, it appears that MobiTV thinks that because it did not properly secure its own feeds and left it on a public URL that somehow Howard Forums has broken the law.
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