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Apple settles another lawsuit over Tiger leak

updated 10:10 pm EDT, Tue April 19, 2005

Tiger leak lawsuit settled


Apple has who admitted leaking Tiger and Apple still has a case pending against a third man, according to the report. Apple said that Sambhara has "accepted responsibility for his actions and Apple is pleased to put another part of this case behind us." Documents indicate that Sambhara was required to return to Apple any information he got via his previous Apple Developer Connection membership and that the judge ordered an injunction to prevent him from possessing or communicating any proprietary Apple information.


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  1. bigpoppa206

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    Kudos

    to Apple for handling it and moving on.

  1. climacs

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    that's fucked up

    what those guys did, leaking Tiger. Definitely not cool.

  1. mactropolis

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    Re: that's fucked up

    Yea....should've waited until the GM build to start sharing at least.....

  1. medmuse

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    bit

    As I recall, Apple also included 25 john Does in the suit; presumably unknown peers downloading/sharing on the initial file share swarm. Anyone know what became of them? Was that just a legal requirement for the suit? Any lawyers around here?

  1. LtKernelPanic

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    Re; John Does

    According to who Deatherage from Mac Journals who was on the Your Mac Life internet radio show a couple weeks ago it's not uncommon for companies to name a number of John Does greater than the number of specifically named people. It seems to indicate that there may be more people named in the suit but then again there might not be as seems to be in this case. Apparently it looks bad adding additional people to the suit after the fact if they only have X people at the start than it does saying there turns out to be fewer involved when they thought. I hope that made sense because the way he did on the show did.

  1. LtKernelPanic

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    04/20, 10:43am | report spam | Reply |

    opps

    Doh. The guest's full name is Matt Deatherage. Somehow I missed his first name when I copied it off YML's guest list.

  1. medmuse

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    Thanks

    Thank you Lt., yes it does make sense. I thought it might be hard for them to prove that others in the swarm actually got the file and I don't know if there would be a case for linking to a p2p if the Does could not download or otherwise never got or passed on the file. The tracker site also gave up all their logs to Apple (Apple claimed no one would be sued....if they cooperated) and one might assume that Apple compared ip addresses against their developer database. I guess they couldn't find other developers and didn't pursue it further. I would have been interested in the defense; "Did you link to the file?", "Yes, but it went offline before I got anything" or, "It was 3 gigs in size so I cancelled after 6 hours and got nothing"

  1. chas_m

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    Pleased

    I am pleased that Apple settled this in the way they did -- little or no money was extracted from the settlers (other than lotsa legal fees, I'm sure). The settlement seems fair to me given that the defendents are mostly students. Apple has sent a clear message protecting their IP while not destroying anyone's life.

    All that hoopla about Apple being the "bad guy" in this was just SO wrong-headed and uncool. I hope some people in this forum and elsewhere will rethink their jump-the-gun attitudes.

  1. Person Man

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    Deatherage

    Matt Deatherage used to work for Apple.

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