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Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case

Posted by Zonk on from the you-lose-some dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "In a case with implications for the freedom to blog, a San Jose judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple Computer can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information about the company's upcoming products. The San Jose news piece has the most detail on the ruling while Mac Daily News has some background on the case, and Gizmodo vociferously expresses an opinion on the lawsuit. We've covered the case in the past as well.

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  1. You break an NDA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not surprised

  2. Re:Journalists' Sources, are...Parent is shill? by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    There is nothing about the release of Apple's internal plans that was 'for the public good'

    Liar! Or are you just stupid?

    It is very much in the 'public good' to know about new products that are about to render old products over-priced or obsolete. How can you be an informed buyer without information? Companies pull all kinds of tricks to foist off discontinued, refurbished, and remanufactured merchandise as 'new' on uninformed consumers. If Apple is able to chill the discourse about their products, they are already a good way along the road to preventing any criticism of their behavior at all. And that would not be good for any of us who aren't named Steve Jobs.

    As I said, are you stupid? Or a shill for Apple?

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