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OK everyone, I have to let you all know about some stinky stuff going on online. Fellow Mobius Member, Howard Chui, who runs Howard Forums is getting threatened by MobiTV. This company has contacted Howard’s hosting provider and is trying to get Howard Forums shut down.

Digg this URL to help Howard – Digg – MobiTV to Hofo: Take down

It seems that a user of Howard Forums has discovered a URL within the MobiTV website that allows you free content or something like that. That’s not important. What is important is Howard’s rights. Providing a link to a publicly accessible web URL is no crime. If a company doesn’t secure their site from users getting to things, they need to address their own security concerns rather than scouring the net and wasting dollars on lawyers, etc. This is basically the same thing as me discovering that channel 943 on satellite is messed up and I can get free pay per view and sharing the channel info with friends via phone. Right?

I know some of you have Windows Mobile 6 on the Dell Axim popping into your heads right now. How can I support Howard, but not have the conviction to support this illegal Windows Mobile 6 version? I realize it seems similar, but it’s really not. I will say that we have been revisiting allowing discussion of WM6 ROMs, but nothing has been agreed upon yet.

Back to Howard Forums… Howard has refused to remove these links and now MobiTV is trying to get their webhost to shut them down. This almost happened to me with Dell 4 years ago and I know that this pressure sucks badly. Help get the word out by digging this story for Howard. Thanks everyone.

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