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Apple Ordered to Pay Blogger Legal Fees

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bruising-the-bottom-line dept.

inetsee writes "Apple has been ordered to pay legal fees for two web sites that reported on an in-development Apple project code named 'Asteroid'. According to the article on WebProNews, Apple was ordered by a Santa Clara County court to pay almost $700,000 in legal reimbursement to AppleInsider and PowerPage after the court agreed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation legal team that the web sites 'qualified as legitimate online news sites' engaging in trade journalism. Apple had claimed that it had a right to protect its trade secrets, but the EFF successfully argued that 'Subpoenaing journalist sources is not an acceptable means of discovery.'"

3 of 161 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Worried about Apple... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My question is: what changed?

    Steve Jobs became addicted to meth. Seriously.

    (Cupertino worker, posting as AC)

  2. Re:Worried about Apple... by aralin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I will give 90% of all the money I will steal from you to charity. Am I supposed to be praised as a "good guy" for doing that? Maybe you had some other uses for the money. It was yours money, why shouldn't you be praised for being a good guy, when the money going to charity were yours? I see Microsoft as a criminal and Bill Gates as profiting from criminal activity. I don't care how much he gives on charity out of his ill gotten money. It is not his money to dispose of in my eyes.

    --
    If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
  3. goIat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    get h0w people can