18 Months In Prison For Making iPad 2 Cases

decora writes "Loretta Chao of the The Wall Street Journal reports on three people in China who were sentenced to between 12 and 18 months in prison for a plot to make iPad 2 protective cases before the tablet's official release. The plan allegedly involved R&D man Lin Kecheng of Hon Hai Precision Industry Company (FoxConn) selling image data to Hou Pengna, who then passed it to Xiao Chengsong, a manager at MacTop. The charges? One 'violated the privacy policy of the company,' two got information through 'illegal means' causing 'huge losses,' and they all 'infringed trade secrets.' The decision was handed down by the Shenzen Baoan People's Court on June 16."

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Re:What's with the trolling, slashdot?

[dbIII]

It's "might makes right" in action - that stuff the cogyright groups in the USA and the Libertarians are pushing hard for instead of that pesky idea of the rule of law.
It's about who you piss off and not how important the thing you did to piss them off is.

Here's An Idea For You

[pandrijeczko]

All you fanbois on here constantly whining on about the anti-Apple sentiment on Slashdot, why not do something positive for your public image and start sending emails to your beloved Apple Corp. explaining that, as a user of their products, you're not prepared to put up with this outrage and expect Apple to step in and maybe start launching some appeals to the Chinese government to get these custodial sentences?

Whoops, sorry, was getting ahead of myself for a moment, please forgive me.

Of course you can't do that because to do it you need backbones.