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Apple Subpoenas, Sues Over Leaks

Posted by pudge on 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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  1. No Story Here by RazzleFrog · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am the last person to defend Apple but this is such a non-story. They are not suing these sites. They obviously caught somebody who signed an NDA leaking information and are suing them. These sites are receiving subpoenas because they may be able to verify the identity of said person.

  2. Re:Asteroid! by Kaimelar · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is GrangeBand? Some kind of audio editing software?

    GarageBand is the audio editing/music creation application now included as part of the iLife suite of apps (along with iTunes, iDVD, etc.)

    More info at http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

  3. Also suing over leaked Tiger developer builds by kekeruusperi · · Score: 5, Informative

    They've also sued three ADC members who were distributing developer builds of Mac OS X Tiger via BitTorrent.
    Details here and here.

    Nothing spectacular here, since besides the obvious copyright infringement, the developer builds are released under NDA.