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Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs"

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-the-blog-as-we-know-it dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for a developing situation. Daniel Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, made a post earlier today revealing that Apple was offering him some money (in the wake of the ThinkSecret shutdown) to close down his blog. He said he was interested in taking it. A few hours later, Lyons posted again revealing that Apple's lawyers had contacted him angrily, saying the details of the deal were supposed to remain private. Fake Steve replied 'we either deal out in the open, completely transparently, or we don't deal.' A third post gives details of Apple's lawyers' next response, going totally medieval on him. Since then the situation has calmed down a bit.

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  1. Fake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I cant help thinking the "lawyer threats" are fake, considering this dirt[stanford.edu] dug up by a stanford student

    1. Re:Fake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I found a related story just the other day...[harvard.edu]

    2. Re:Fake? by Pi+Is+A+Rational · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sim City, or any other game by Maxis is just... ugh. Why would you want to play a clone? Let alone spam this shit everywhere.