NTP Seeks to Shut Down Blackberry Service in United States
Blackberry users in the U.S. are trembling a bit this week as the news of NTP Inc.’s suit against Canadian, Research in Motion (RIM), includes NTP seeking an injuction to shut down the push-mail service here in the United States. NTP says that the injunction would exempt government officials and emergency users, which is the crux of RIM’s argument against shutting down the service. RIM has stated that Blackberry’s have been used by emergency workers and first-responders when other devices, such as land-line phone service, cell phone service and radio communications have failed due to infrastructure losses. The Blackberry is able to send messages directly to other Blackberry devices over the internet. While NTP says these types of people would be exempted from any injunction they seek, RIM has said publicly that it would be nearly impossible to filter these users out.
Seems kind of silly to me that if an injunction seemed justified by a court, that the service would not be shut down. Most of the people that I have read interviews with are congressmen and senators who use their Blackberry’s to stay up to date on their schedules and email. Poor babies, if they don’t have their Blackberrys, what would they do? Gimme a break. If NTP does in fact have the right to shut down the push-email service, then it should be shut down. Put yourself in their shoes.
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