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Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker
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'"
like $50,000 a year to Apple from him not working there anymore?
If you had even read the slashdot blurb of TFA, you'd know that he wasn't an apple employee, but rather a developer's connection member.
He didn't work there, he just was part of their developer program ("Apple Developer Connection"). Actually, to be a part of the ADC level that receives OS seeds, *you* have to pay a certain amount per year.
As these comprehensive databases like ChoicePoint record more civil an criminal judgements, it gets harder to obtain a job at a mainstream company. Article in Wired about this issue yesterday.
When you start getting into trade secret cases like this, yes, you start getting into the criminal side of the law. Apple's "settling" of the criminal case is probably a simple matter of calling the DA and saying they don't want to press charges, and without Apple's cooperation, the DA really doesn't have a case.
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
WTF is a "thowsand"?
It's a "thousand" typed by someone who types faster than you :) Beginning typists tend to make errors based on the proximity of keys (pwned) or transposition (teh). Experienced typists tend to make homophonic mistakes (there/their), prob. because typing is more nearly akin to talking for them.
To bring this back to topic: The kid had it coming.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Did you really learn that lesson from being threatened?
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
What's sad here is, he likely got pressured into giving up a copy or two to some friends, who probably SWORE they wouldn't share it.
That sounds sad, but it isn't true. He put it up on the largest Mac-centric BitTorrent tracker out there. Thousands of people downloaded it from that tracker. "One or two friends" is bullshit. He knew what he was doing, he just didn't think he'd get in trouble for it since he hadn't paid money for anything.
> Just a serial number for photoshop?
Guess you havn't used the current version then! Which has, ugh, painful activation.
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