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Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker

Posted by Zonk on from the not-confidential dept.

The Hobo writes "CNet is carrying a story about Apple reaching a settlement with one of the Tiger leakers, 22-year-old Doug Steigerwald. The terms of the settlement were not released, but it was said that money will be paid to Apple. To quote Doug, 'As a member of Apple's Developer Connection program I received a pre-release version of Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' software, which I promised to keep confidential, instead, I disseminated it over the Internet, and thousands of unauthorized copies of Apple's software were illegally distributed to the public'"

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  1. Re:Bravo by zardo · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Damn you guys are all sticking up for Apple. Fact is they could put copy protection into the beta. Feels like entrapment to me. They should have protected their software better. That's like posting the root login to your webserver on the net and prosecuting people who log in. Is that ethical?

    I really dont think he would have had to make a case that it wasn't him, he could have just said "well I was just expecting apple to disable my license or something, I didn't know I was subject to pugnitive damages, you'd think apple would know better than to trust people on the internet like that". I certainly hope they were thoughtful enough to fine him $500 or something, even $100,000 to apple is chump change. If word gets out that they settled on anything over $1000, I'll never buy an apple product again.

    There aught to be some laws against that sort of lawsuit, it is really up to apple to make their software copy proof. Aren't they the pioneers of DRM? Fuck!!!!!