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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:payment by m3j00 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  2. judgements affect future job prospects by peter303 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Jail time? by NormalVisual · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:I guess signing a Non Disclosure... by OECD · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  5. Re:Similar Thing Happend To Me by Dun+Malg · · Score: 2, Informative
    They're always protecting their R&D investment. And while the young and restless will snicker, it really taught me a lesson about respecting other people's hard work.

    Did you really learn that lesson from being threatened?

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  6. Re:Little Copy protection? Just like Adobe... by Carrot007 · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Just a serial number for photoshop?

    Guess you havn't used the current version then! Which has, ugh, painful activation.

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