Time Warner Cable And Viacom Duel In Court Over iPad Streaming Rights

I only wish I could order up a Mad magazine Spy vs. Spy-like graphic for this story—either that or cue up the Dueling Banjos theme from Deliverance. Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) went to federal court Thursday afternoon for a ruling that it has the right to stream Viacom’s networks to its iPad app, which has been downloaded more than 360,000 times since its Mar. 15 launch. Viacom (NYSE: VIA) fired back quickly with the lawsuit (embedded below) it was ready to file last week before TWC pulled MTV and other networks from the app. A spokesperson told paidContent the cable programmer is considering similar action against Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) for streaming the networks on its own app.

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