MobiTV's Incompetence

So the mobile TV stream provider for Sprint has proven themselves completely incompetent. They are using plain text XML with no passwords, no nothing to send the links for video streams to Sprint handset users on the Sprint TV Xtra service.

Now after some smart people posted the xml results on a well known mobile phone website - Howard Forums - they're threatening to litigate against the site owner. When are corporations going to learn that you can't litigate away software engineer stupidity?

So, in case the Howard Forums thread gets pulled, here's what has their panties all up in a wad (strip out all the br's that Blogger insists on inserting):

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Beach, Bedroom, Hot tub. MAXX Look ??? All Girls. All the time<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Toon World TV" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/28-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Access Hollywood" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/1515-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Love Laffs" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/4104-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Bloomberg" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/52-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />Bloomberg<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Tim Gunns Guide to Style" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/1519-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="The Mic Hip Hop" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/910-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="V40 Hot Hits" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/911-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Totally 80s 90s" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/96-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Double Z Country" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/72-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="RandB Jamz" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/425-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Ritmo Caliente" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/97-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Chaos Extreme" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/913-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Shift Alternative" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/912-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="USA Mobile" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/1503-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Bravo To Go" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/1502-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="SCI FI Pulse Mobile" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/1501-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Oxygen" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/58-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Discovery Mobile" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/53-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="A and E Mobile" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/17-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="The History Channel Mobile" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/19-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="NBC News Mobile" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/2-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Fashion TV" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/22-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />Fashion TV<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Comedy Time" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/21-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />Comedy Time<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="MAXX SPORTS" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com/50-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />MAXX SPORTS<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="IGN" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/59-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />IGN<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Bombones" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/74-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="CNET" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/23-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />CNET<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="CSPAN" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/30-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />CSPAN<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="CSPAN2" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/31-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br />CSPAN2<br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Soulja Boy Tell Em TV" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/4100-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Ataku" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/83-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="D40 Digital Camera" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/1346-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /><channel name="Bank of America" href="rtsp://live.mobitv.com:554/4101-CDMA.sdp" type="video/3gpp"><br /><description><br /><br /></description><br /></channel><br /></active><br /></category><br /></listing><br />