“A ripple was felt through the Mac community early this morning, as one of its oldest and best-known rumor sites announced that it would be closing its doors. ThinkSecret announced that it had settled a three-year-old lawsuit with Apple, which resulted in the site’s tipsters to remain anonymous, apparently at the expense of the site’s continued operations,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica.
“ThinkSecret has a long history of reporting on rumors, successfully predicting the introduction of the Mac mini as well as iWork in 2005. That prompted a lawsuit from Apple in an attempt to identify the leakers and to stop the site from continuing to publish what Apple called ‘trade secrets,'” Cheng reports.
“Apple argued that Ciarelli solicited for inside tips on his site, which the company argued was a violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act,” Cheng reports. “The reaction to ThinkSecret’s closing has been mixed. Although not everyone has been fond of the site’s ‘me too’ reporting as of late, the precedent set by Ciarelli’s settlement is very troubling. With ThinkSecret down, who will Apple go after next?”
Cheng reports, “But the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl has a different perspective on why things went down the way they did, and what it means for the community. ‘I’m very happy to see that no sources were disclosed,’ Opsahl told Ars… ‘Apple was faced with losing the case and having to pay attorney’s fees,’ explained Opsahl, which is likely part of the reason why it decided to settle instead of continuing to pursue it. As for Ciarelli, ‘We understand that Nick is very satisfied with the outcome of the case,’ Opsahl said. ‘We hope that Apple learns a lesson over this.'”
More in the full article here.
As an addendum, the US Constitution was written in the syntax and idioms of the day, so that any American citizen could know precisely what his rights are. What part of “Congress shall make NO law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press” do you not understand? …no/yes, black/white, male/female, cold/hot?
I, nor any other American citizen, require an “introductory text on Constitutional law.” We can read it for ourselves. You immerse what is left of your ability to think for yourself at Wikipedia, I’ll stick with James Madison and The Boys From Philly.
Apple’s problem is with employees who have broken non-disclosure contracts and not with news sites that simply report them.
Hot Damn !!! This string is really getting brutal. I love it!
Real World,
I’m confused. You said:
“And frankly as a consumer I’d rather know the product I’m going to purchase tomorrow will be obsolete the day after.”
Does that mean you would buy it even if you know it’s going to be obsolete the day after you buy it? Did I miss something? And please don’t reply: Yes, you missed the short, yellow school bus.
Unless you really mean it.
R.S.V.P.
“Does that mean you would buy it even if you know it’s going to be obsolete the day after you buy it”
Possibly, if I needed it that day and knew the one coming out the next day wasn’t much of an upgrade. In any case, I sure wouldn’t feel pissed off if I did that because I would have made a conscious decision.
What would piss me off is buying a product and a new secret unannounced upgrade or massive price drop happening the next day.
“I, nor any other American citizen, require an “introductory text on Constitutional law.”
I guess that’s probably true if you want to continue to live in ignorance as you do today.
I’m not exactly sure who you think the “Madison” in the famous case of Marbury v. Madison I cited was. Take a guess. His first name was James. Perhaps since you profess a respect for James Madison you should read at least that one case.
That the Supreme Court gets to decide what the Constitution means was well settled within the lifetimes of most of the drafters of the Constitution. Jefferson was not fond of that decision but not enough people agreed with him to create any constitutional amendment that supported his view.
That your simplistic interpretation is wrong is well settled law. So you can go on believing that the law works the way you ignorantly think it works, or you can get an education.
Yeah, that’s happened to me a couple of times with Apple stuff. It’s all part of the game. At least I never felt like I got ripped off. Their stuff is still good stuff.
C, you are the man! Finally someone who understands reality.
To Al:
You also need to do some homework. I am half Danish, my mother is Danish, and I have visited Denmark and other Nordic countries, I have family still living in Denmark. The reason that Nordic countries have low crime rates is due to the homogeneity of their societies. Through their centuries of history they have killed, or driven out of the country anyone who was different. I love the Danes, so I am sorry to be so harsh, but it is the truth.
Also, did you know that Adolf Hitler was the product of anti-religious thinking? It is very difficult to find an ethical person that doesn’t believe in a supreme power, because without that belief might makes right, selfishness reigns, and majority thought rules, and these lines of reasoning are at odds with ethics.
@ HaHaHaHa
Finding 13 year old Virgins to sacrifice is one of the real problems of practicing a religion that will sacrifice several each year… it’s a pretty good incentive for girls to change that status before April 21st… Of course we will probably end up with a lot of 14 year old mothers … finding Mastadon clubs is also a trifle difficult…
@ C
Thanks for the knowledgeable back up…
@ LorD1776
Refer to the comment to HaHaHaHa above… Virgins are rare… and rare nouns deserve to be capitalized.
@ Botvinnik
Ah, Argument Ad Hominem: the first resort of someone without a case is to attack the opponent not his argument. Phrases such as “the slower of you” and ” cut & paste ramblings” are intended by you to denigrate the debaters, not refute the arguments. The only things I “cut and paste” in my “ramblings” was the exact wording of the Constitution of the United States section that grants the power to the central government to regulate certain things and to enact the laws to do that regulation.
It is obvious you do not have a response to what you would do when your personal information has been sold to someone for profit. Do you sue the nameless drone who stole and sold your data, or do you sue the easily found website publisher who bought and is spreading your data? Under your absolutist Constitutional interpretation, I am free to publish the details of your identity and that 13 year old Virgin is gonna die.
You want scholars? How about Sir William Blackstone? You know, one of the most scholarly legal minds in history? (Pardon me if I cut and past again, but it is easier to cut and paste than to accurately retype words from Blackstone’s Commentaries)…
“Where blasphemous, immoral, treasonable, schismatical, seditious, or scandalous libels are punished by English law – the liberty of the press, properly understood, is by no means infringed or violated. The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press: <u>but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity</u>.” (Underlining done by Swordmaker)
This is particularly true where private persons (including private corporate persons) are concerned… there are consequences to publishing information one does not own. One of them might be a cease and desist order… or monetary damages.
Swordmaker,
The human female will soon evolve into being born without a hymen. I mean, what the heck is it good for? Well, other than giving religious fanatical loonies a reason to kill women when it’s not there. The word Virgin will drop into obscurity (if it hasn’t already), along with chastity and fidelity, and removed from our vocabulary.
Regarding the capitalization:
I understand. Like Government Intelligence. Makes sense.
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