Circuit City Subpoenas CheapAss Gamer and DVDTalk

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 10, 2007 @07:34AM from the battening-down-the-hatches dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A poster on DVDTalk and CheapAssGamer has posted the weekly ads for Circuit City, Best Buy, and Target ahead of time for the last few years. A few weeks ago he confirmed that there was an intended price break on the PS3 and stole Sony's thunder from E3. A Circuit City ad was used for confirmation. Circuit City has threatened DVDTalk and CheapAssGamer.com to give them personal information about the poster. CheapAssGamer has hired a lawyer and is going to fight. The story is similar to the Black Friday ads being posted early and FatWallet fighting back."

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What's the problem? by Quila · 2007-08-10 07:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

A company is trying to go after someone responsible for theft of corporate secrets (a felony, BTW). They are reasonably, and according to legal procedure, trying to get information from a third party to help identify the thief. It is the responsibility of that third party to provide such information.

Let's not confuse privacy with shielding yourself from just punishment for your actions.