Apple Pushes to Unmask Product Leaker

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 20, 2006 @09:38PM from the say-what-you-must dept.

Zack Wells writes "Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional reporters? Apple claims they should not. Its lawyers say in court documents that Web scribes are not 'legitimate members of the press' when they reveal details about forthcoming products that the company would prefer to keep confidential. That argument has drawn stiff opposition from bloggers and traditional journalists. This is related to a case of an Apple news site, PowerPage.org, who leaked information about a FireWire audio interface for GarageBand that has been codenamed 'Asteroid.' The subpoena is on hold during the appeal. In the lawsuit, filed in late 2004, Apple is not suing the Mac news sites directly, but instead has focused on still-unnamed 'John Doe' defendants. The subpoena has been sent to Nfox.com, PowerPage's e-mail provider, which says it will comply if legally permitted."

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Re:Apple needs to be careful here. by jcr · 2006-04-20 22:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I see you missed the part where other people had managed to boot XP on the Mac without Apple's help. You can shove your snotty affectation of superiority right next to your conspiracy theory, sunshine.

-jcr

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