It doesn't matter.

Apple cannot stop the leaks. The info that fueled Think Secret will pop up elsewhere.

You've come full circle Apple.

1984 was so long ago... ;(

I have used macs for years and was going to get a new mac with leopard but saw a friends windows vista and thought a) it is more compatible with other users b) microsoft get bad press all the time but you don't see them flattening the little guy (just buying him out!) c) PCs look a lot! cheaper d) steve jobs is clearly evil and this article seems to comfirm this. Add to this my mac crashes constantly anything must be an improvement.

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Yeah, he's all about the consumer, isn't he?

Where are all the Job Fanboi's now?

Wonders.... Gee, if Apple doesn't want people to write about its products, then perhaps nobody should review or even run advertisements for Apple's reassuringly expensive crap?

Keep in mind that this is a student at harvard, meaning that he has some money in the family, and also, perhaps more importantly, meaning he will soon reap the benefit of such random big company lawsuits when he's a lawyer representing them..
I'm sorry for freedom, and apple fighting it, but I'm not sure I should be sorry for the student.
In fact in most newsitems involving 'students' they are more likely to be/represent the 'bad' side the last few years :/


According to this Computerworld story the EFF attorney Gross says Apple blinked first and Nick Ciarelli was 'very pleased' at the outcome:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mhvpc

Sort of ironic to have the words of Orwell in the 1984 commercial come back to haunt Apple...how did that go again?

"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"

Yeah, indeed. "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."


if microsoft shut down a site, there would have been e-jihad against them. apple shuts a site down, the sheep just take another soma and go back to dreaming of yesterdays technology wrapped in shiny plastic.

Someone should have bothered to read up on the case. The problem Apple had with Think Secret was over NDA materials, not the rumors. They may not like those, but they can't do anything about them. However, showing pictures of items strictly under NDA instead of just writing about them or doing a mock up is a completely different matter. Yay for more FUD...

Since you're so brave and not afraid of Fruitzilla, why not hire Nick and offer him protection of his sources?

Looks like you guys are covered by a corporation that would have enough strength to chew Fruitzilla and their fanboi army too...

Have a L'inq.

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=intellectual_property_and_drm&articleId=9053798&taxonomyId=144&intsrc=kc_top

i hope apple is succesfull in shutting down every single news outlet that publishes anything about apple.

would be a hoot!


I know there's no such thing as bad press, but still, owch.

How much will Apple have to leave out of its official story when asked to spin this...?


Yup we got freedom of speech but only if you can afford to have that freedom

The cost of justice in the US is so bloody hight, its makes you laugh.

Major corporations will ALWAYS stifle speech by threat of litigation , right or wrong they win by default, they have more money