Comments on: AT&T Wireless Bans Slingboxes

By: Big John

Big John — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:17:41 +0000

Violatin’ terms of service is what I do best

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:06:01 +0000

“mistake” – yeah right. This whole loop is a reminder of:

1 – Just how stuck in the past, utterly unable to grasp the realities of 2009, the decision makers at AT&T are. They still think ( wish? ) it was the hey day of their monopoly in 1978 when customers could not communicate with each other and had to write postal mail to complain.

2 – This will all end in tears, AGAIN, if we don’t bring Net Neutrality back from the dead. AT&T knows they can keep pulling stunts like this ( and they will keep trying ) without any repercussions because their lobbyists bribed your congressmen to vote against Net Neutrality.

…the next time it comes up for a vote, call your congressional representatives and demand they forgo the all expenses paid trip to go play in the AT&T golf tournament in the Bahamas and PASS NET NEUTRALITY!

savetheinternet ( dawt ) com

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:52:06 +0000

Looks like AT&T’s webmaster finally woke up from his nap to remove that offensive language from their site. Of course the lawyer-drafted verbiage wasn’t an “error” as stated, but I’m pleased with their swift reaction to our vocal protest. Then again, I no longer have a legit means of breaking my contract.

By: Ron P.

Ron P. — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:00:19 +0000

Now here is one fast moving story is it not? I just finished quoting Dave at Howard Forums (plenty of credit Dave!! you work hard!!) and before I could edit it, I get EMAIL from someone telling ,me about this Gizmodo link http://i.gizmodo.com/5197758/att-says-horrible-terms-of-service-update-was-all-a-big-mistake (Basically same as Engadget)

Dave has said it right though, terms and conditions changed yet? LOL

By: Matt Whitlock

Matt Whitlock — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:56:16 +0000

It’s funny. Engadget gets a statement from someone at AT&T, and now life is peachy again. In that statement they said “we have since removed it.” That means, it’s already been done. But did anybody bother to look and see if it was actually removed?

Fact is, as of right this minute, the terms of use has not been modified on AT&T’s website, and therefore have not been retracted. SlingCommunity and I aren’t buying it until they’ve actually removed their “oops” language from their terms of use.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:33:17 +0000

The web page terms/language haven’t been changed (back)… yet?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:15:02 +0000

According to engadget… they’ve since retracted…

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-retracts-new-terms-of-service-apologizes/

By: K

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:30:42 +0000

So confused. I just read about how the Slingbox app *will* be available for iPhone, but will only work with new Slingboxes. How can AT&T ban Slingbox streaming but still release the app? For wireless use only?

I already have a VIP on a non-standard port for my Slingbox, and I use dynDNS, so I can access it from anywhere. My 3G connection seems to sucks enough that I probably couldn’t stream from my Sling anyway.