March 9, 2008

MobiTV In Big Fight With HowardForums, Looks To Take Down Entire Site

The last time we mentioned MobiTV here at TVSnob was way back in 2006 when AT&T was the first American broadband provider to offer a live mobile TV subscription service in partnership with the mobile content provider. Now MobiTV is the mobile TV provider on Sprint Nextel cell phones and has been in a fight with Toronto-based HowardForums the past couple of days to get the cellular forum to take down instructions revealing how to access MobiTV's content feeds for free. Originally sent a cease and desist letter from MobiTV, HowardForum's refused to take down the posting after which MobiTV sent notification to the forum's service provider looking to take down the site entirely. Howard Chui, owner of HowardForums originally refused to take down the posting because it simply linked to feeds available to the public domain via MobiTV's website. Apparently the situation has now been resolved though. MobiTV has secured the content and is back on good terms with HowardForums.

Via Yahoo