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Apple Ends Anti-Blogger Legal Effort
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has decided not to appeal the decision against it in it in its case against the product-information leaking bloggers. News.com discusses the ramifications of this decision, which may make future online journalists bolder in their actions." From the article: "Court documents show the company's investigators interviewed 29 employees who had access to a key confidential document — but Apple did not examine them under oath or examine their computers. That's one reason, the appeals court said, to grant the online journalists the protective order they requested. 'Apple has failed to establish that it adequately pursued other possible means to identify the source of the information in question,' the judges said."
He's not a whiny anti-Apple troll. He's just angry this girl wouldn't give him her number.
Spin in any way you want, spear somebody in the chest, mod pro-apple posts up. Whatever.
Final Score :
Internet Freedom 1
Steve Jobs 0
Given that Apple's lost about 80% of their market share, I'm still going to bet on Freedom and not Apple.
Apple once specialized in personal computers. But now that they are a marketing company specializing in popularizing digital rights management, it *is* important that they do some random lawsuits (just like the RIAA does). This is to scare people. If only people who can afford lawyers can challenge them, the smaller Apple's target is. It's too bad. Back when Woz ran the company they were semi-cool. I'm suprised the share holders continue to let Steve Jobs run the company into the ground again and again.