MobiTV, HowardForums resolve their differences
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Mar 7th 2008 at 7:24PM
It looks like all is once again well in HoFo land, with MobiTV president Paul Scanlan himself stepping in and corresponding with Howard Chui directly. In short, Scanlan says that they never intended to get HowardForums taken offline (good for them), but that an abundance of caution in protecting "content and carrier partners" led MobiTV's legal team to step in and issue some stern words. To quote Howard, "I guess everything is okay now" -- so if he's happy, we're happy. Here's to many more years of threat-free HoFoing, eh?[Thanks, TJ]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Khris @ Mar 7th 2008 9:21PM
Sounds like it was all just a "Whose penis is larger" contest. Unfortunately I don't think either side won.
sr @ Mar 7th 2008 9:47PM
Honestly, it's what we call a win-win resolution. There's nothing unfortunate about no side "winning."
Dave @ Mar 7th 2008 9:54PM
nice to see not every company is evil and gives takedown notices like Apple
AlphaTeam @ Mar 7th 2008 11:09PM
Well we know the President of MobiTV needs some elementary re-educating to know that a website is spelled "site", not "sight"
HoFo FTW!!!
Donald @ Mar 8th 2008 12:39AM
MobiTV figured out that the cost of losing a half million customers paying $x/month was more than the cost of getting a takedown done (where x is a number that is too much money for a product that manages to simultaneously suck and blow).
Tastypeppers @ Mar 8th 2008 2:11AM
Yet another example of rampant overlawyering. At least in this situation, executive sanity prevails quickly. Compare it to the Bank Julius Baer/wikileaks.org debacle.
I have to give ive credit to the President of MobiTV at least for seeing that one of his minions has bad judgment, and fixing it fast.
Big Sam @ Mar 8th 2008 2:39PM
What's funny about this is that is just resulted in more people discovering the hole in MobiTV's service. I hadn't heard about it until this. Not that I care since I have both a Slingbox and Orb.
William @ Mar 10th 2008 10:39AM
If this is how it truly played out, I'm canceling all of my MobiTV/radio subscriptions.