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Apple's old, new threats fail to quiet Mac websites

updated 07:50 pm EST, Wed March 23, 2005

Legal threats working?


Apple's recent lawsuit against ThinkSecret and quest to subpoena information about confidential source from Mac journalists , according to The New York Times: "So far, the letters appear to have done nothing to reduce Ciarelli's enthusiasm. He has continued to publish articles about Apple's product plans. Apple's continued legal barrage has also stirred up the community of Web sites and Web logs, or blogs, that routinely speculate on the company's product plans. Several operators said that Apple's legal campaign did not appear to have slowed the flow of information about details and announcement dates of products." The article notes that Apple this week has sent cease & desist letters to a number of websites about the (private) release of a new build of Mac OS X developers.

Several Mac sites, including AppleInsider, have received a cease & desist letter this week regarding articles on release of a new pre-release build of Mac OS X Tiger to its developer community. The articles discussed the release of the software, the build number, and a number of known issues with the software.


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  1. alex627

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    03/23, 08:03pm | report spam | Reply |

    Hey Apple

    Don't shoot the messenger. Patch the leaks. Stop the frivolous lawsuits.

  1. adon

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    03/23, 08:30pm | report spam | Reply |

    Stupid

    I am a real big Mac fan, but Apple is shooting itself in the leg here. I really think they should stop filing lawsuits for every little bit of information that got out that they didn't exactly want to. Because, as much as I hate to say it, this is discouraging Mac fans from starting up Mac fansites because they don't want to be involved in legal c***. Apple is being really stupid right now, hopefully someone over there will be following up and these articles reporting on the lawsuits around the net and read the comments, expecially the ones like this one, that are pointing out that they need to stop, maybe then they will stop.

  1. Cubester

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    03/23, 09:02pm | report spam | Reply |

    It's Jobs

    The problem is Steve Jobs and his need for control. He's also the reason we operate in the mousing dark ages. I think he's brilliant, but he's also notoriously volatile, demanding and determined to be in command of every aspect of production, promotion and user experience.

    I don't think he can really control himself, and he clearly has limited insight into his behavior and its impact upon users and fans. Although I'm grateful for his contributions, I'm always concerned about the next fool move he'll make and how it may hurt the business.

  1. bigpoppa206

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    03/23, 09:15pm | report spam | Reply |

    I'll have some of what..

    the above people have been smoking!

  1. Jonathan-Tanya

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    03/23, 09:16pm | report spam | Reply |

    it's divisive

    regardless of where someone stands on the common industry practice of discussing developer builds....there can be no doubt this issue has divided the community and is a distraction.

    And someone said these websites had hundreds of thousands of hits per month....just there readership alone, let alone that this has spilled out into the general media....show that it isn't an issue that is being ignored either.

    I think apple will do well next quarter thanks to a strong product lineup....but they would have done even better without this distraction.

  1. dennis

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    03/23, 10:03pm | report spam | Reply |

    Apple now in biotech?

    Not only is Apple releasing new builds of OS X to developers, they are also releasing new builds of the developers themselves, according to this article.

  1. JackNN

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    03/24, 12:17am | report spam | Reply |

    Erm, actually ...

    It's the other way round. The legal action has happened BECAUSE Ciarelli et al failed to pull sensitive information. Apple has been issuing "cease and desist" orders for years, and gossip sites have normally complied, until now. There's nothing new in Apple's behaviour, only the fan sites'.

  1. medmuse

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    03/24, 09:25am | report spam | Reply |

    My $0.02

    All I know is that since this whole thing started, Apple's share price collapsed, MSFT beat it to market on every new product, and their market share is dwindling. Time to give up on Apple. It is over as a company; chapter 11. The rumor sites have destroyed it.

  1. Jonathan-Tanya

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    03/24, 09:43am | report spam | Reply |

    to jacknn

    well, you've hit on a good point. If you haven't been sued by apple, you really aren't doing your job.

  1. Sebastien

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    03/24, 10:37am | report spam | Reply |

    Ciarelli is just a common

    theif and criminal, proved by his own actions.

    BTW, good point jacknn.

    If he wants to get protected under journalistic provisions, he should act like a real journalist and not resort to criminal activities to report his "stories". No real self-respecting journalist would continually break the law to get stories.

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