Apple Subpoenas, Sues Over Leaks

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Apple Subpoenas, Sues Over Leaks

Posted by pudge on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @08:12AM from the and-around-and-around dept.

CNET reports that Apple has been granted the right to subpoena O'Grady's PowerPage, AppleInsider, and Think Secret over leaks of information concerning an unreleased product code named "Asteroid" and "Q97," which has been described as a FireWire audio interface for use with GarageBand. The subpoenas are related to a lawsuit against an unnamed individual who leaked the information.

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Hmmm by elid · 2004-12-22 08:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Are you sure it wasn't a secret graphing calculator app???
Re:Read all about it! by Saxton · 2004-12-22 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Honestly this seems to be little more than drumming up even more buzz over up-in-coming products. Yeah, they probably were going to keep it a secret for a while longer but now that it's out why not milk it a bit and get the word out?

This is all part of Apple's Product Cycle. Surprised it's even news. ;-)

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Re:Last Disk by WellAren'tYouJustThe · 2004-12-22 08:31 · Score: 0, Funny

Ignorance is bliss. Pearl Jam just covered that song which is an oldie. It was originally performed as a hit by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers in 1964 and was written by Wayne Cochran in 1962.

Well aren't you just the musical historian? Seriously though, I was a Dead concert 10 or so years ago and they played "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Some kid with a nose ring and a bunch of tats standing next to me said, "Jeez, I can't believe the Dead would rip off Guns 'N Roses, what a joke."
Re:Asteroid! by Reverberant · 2004-12-22 08:31 · Score: 2, Funny

GarageBand is the audio editing/music creation application now included as part of the iLife suite of apps (along with iTunes, iDVD, etc.)
That's all well and good, but you still haven't answered the OP's question: what is GrangeBand?
;)
I don't know about the rest of you... by sutterpants · 2004-12-22 08:35 · Score: 5, Funny

... but I am really sick of hearing about lawsuits. Period. I understand the need to protect brand equity, and can even see the justification for protecting your "IP," but honestly. When will these companies stop with the lawsuits!

New Year's resolution: not buying anything from anybody filing "stunt" (Apple) or "business model" (SCO) lawsuits. I would much rather these execs just took each other out behind the woodshed, beat the crap out of each other, shook hands, drank a beer, and got on with some, oh, I don't know, INNOVATION!

Overly litigious people/companies make me sick.
A Judge Comments: by squiggleslash · 2004-12-22 08:35 · Score: 2, Funny

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Apple lawyers? I've been sitting here in my courtroom in front of a Mac lawyer (an intellectual property specialist w/64 subpoenas against AppleInsider.com) for about 20 minutes now while he attempts to read a 17 Meg server log file into the record. 20 minutes. On a different case with a dumb hick with a law degree, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this lawyer, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, while this lawyer argues his case, the Jury sits around restless. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the court recorder is straining to keep awake as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with Apple lawyers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an Apple lawyer that has made a more reasonable case than its opposition counterpart, despite the Apple lawyer's superior training. My Real Estate Attorney with an Associate's Degree from New England Tech works better than this $3,000 per hour machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Apple has superior lawyers.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to have Apple sue them over other faster, cheaper, more stable individuals.

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How will they track him down? by Patik · 2004-12-22 08:35 · Score: 3, Funny

The subpoenas are related to a lawsuit against an unnamed individual who leaked the information.
How are they going to find him if he doesn't have a name!?
Cool, a FireWire audio interface!!! by Anita+Coney · 2004-12-22 08:52 · Score: 3, Funny

A firewire device for musicians. What a great idea. That's Apple for you, always on the forefront of new technology.

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Think of it this way by Democritus2 · 2004-12-22 08:57 · Score: 1, Funny

Dont think of it as leaks. Think of it as "forced" contribution to Open Source.

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Re:Verisign by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-22 09:02 · Score: 1, Funny

But has it been signed with Verisign?

My fellow Slashdotters, we have seen the birth of a new troll!

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Re:Read all about it! by double-oh+three · 2004-12-22 09:06 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm a PC/Windows user

You must be new here....

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A name? by slapout · 2004-12-22 09:16 · Score: 2, Funny

an unnamed individual

Makes me think about that line in Loaded Weapon 1 when they were trying to get info from Lovitz:

"Gimme a name!"

"Weren't your parents suppose to do that?"

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Re:Read all about it! by Vengie · 2004-12-22 10:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Actually faggy? Cute? Post an email next time, damnit.

Some of us troll slashdot looking for boyfriends....

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