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A San Jose judge ruled today that three web sites including Think Secret can be forced by Apple to surrender the names of sources that released confidential information. Gizmodo has an opinion and Mac Daily News has some background on the case.
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Wow. That strikes a pretty hard blow not just to TS but to journalists everywhere. This could easily be used as a precedent for subpoenaing journalists of the more "respected" written mediums as well.
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I think everyone is used to that sound by now.
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Are they stark raving mad?! This will absolutely not do 'Judge' James Kleinberg... what a nerve!
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yes, big brother is always watching, propaply reading this right now lol hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm haha
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Hmmm.... It would seem that they're treating "breaking an NDA" as a crime rather than a breach of contract. IIRC, if you know someone broke the law and don't report them, you're considered an accomplice. Under normal circumstances proving that you knew something is rather difficult because as long as you weren't actually involved, there won't be any evidence and if you're questioned you can just play dumb. Journalists, OTOH, publish their info, making their knowledge rather obvious.
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I hate to be an ass or something, but journalist sources were never protected by law (at least not a federal one). This is nothing new. The only laws I know of in a state to protect anonymous sources are for exposing corruption. But that's not what this is.
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# I fought da law, and da law won... # I fought da law, and da law won...
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this is very early in the process to say anyone has won.
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i also tend to believe that "nick" has/had an ADC account.
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Actually, the ruling says that Apple may now force the web sites listed in the suit to reveal their sources. Whether or not Apple is still going to do that is up to them again.
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If I buy drugs from someone who smuggled it out of Columbia, you think it's ok to only hold the person who smuggled it into the country responsible for a crime and let me go without incedent? Sure, if Apple was breaking the law and these so called "journalists" acted as a whistle blower that would be great; this is not the case. Burn it on a Mac, dig! :cool: |
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This all depends on how the judge put things into context. If this only applies to people who divulge corporate trade secrets, that's one thing. If it applies to any journalist who is say reporting something from an anonymous whistle-blower or similiar scenario, this is total shit and should be knocked down by a higher court right away.
PS - technically speaking, Nick is not a journalist anymore than the people who write for Teen magazine are journalists IMO. Just having a scoop on something and repeating it is not really journalism. But I enjoy his stuff all the same so I hope whatever appeal they submitted today (see his site) goes through somehow. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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But anyway, jumping on the wayback machine, in royal ole' england one of the ideas of the hated monarchy was the king could decide who was a journalist and who was not...(an idea later adopted by soviet union communism too, except substitute 'king' with party leadership). anyway, the founding fathers decided government would not ever decide who was a journalist. If you publish a story, you are a journalist....write a journal, journal-ist...see fast forward to now, California state law does protect journalists...Apple actually has the gall, to ask the Court to decide that online news portals are not real journalists...if the judge bites, for the first time in history, the government will set standards for who is a journalist and who is not. This is very far reaching and a fundamental change to how free speech works. 'thank your Father kids' does Apple really want to be at the forefront of anti-free speech movement? Apple will be historically linked with this boneheaded decision, and all because Steve Jobs is a control freak. I'm not sure they are really thinking this one through. Sigh...I'm not shocked in anyway, by the complete inability for people to understand things in historical context... it's simply not an easy thing to do, and i have to say, I'm not sure I could do it. But I am somewhat familiar with some of the low lights of the Soviet Union (how did they enter this discussion you may ask)...well, American freedoms are the envy of the world, but your willingness to toss those freedoms aside, is just astonishing and to be totally honest, makes me a bit sick. I can tell you, you really don't need the government deciding that teen beat is not journalism, and washington post is journalism. Don't you realize, this system set up by Thomas Jefferson and the gang has worked for a long time! You are going to fundamentally change it now, and for what....because the mac mini was leaked a week or two early. to be totally honest, I'm being reserved here, but what I really want to do, is take every last one of you that agrees with apple and stick your head in the toilet and let it flush.... Last edited by MarkTime : 2005-03-06 at 02:30. |
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Wikipedia has a page on the case (which anyone can contribute to):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Does |
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That opens up the pandoras box and allows the criminal law to be applied... and rightly so IMHO. 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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As is noted, the people Apple are suing never particpated in the theft of anything.
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It's also worth noting that Apple's incredibly weak argument is that 'the public had no interest in the leaked information, and that only Apple's competitors could gain from the knowledge of the leaked product.' Clearly, judging by the 3 website's audiences, uncluding ourselves, this is complete and utter tripe.
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As the people who gave them the secrets were allowed to have them but not disclose them they are simply in breach of an NDA, however once the defendants accepted that information they had in fact participated in a theft. 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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Firstly, as you note, they didn't steal anything: they were in "receipt" of information, information that the public had an interest in knowing. It's not called theft, it's called news.
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Maybe you should respond to my argument instead of sidestepping with a personal remark. I could equally respond to you that "your definition may hold in your own world-view" and that "your interpretation of the facts of the case are just totally incorrect". I won't though because it's a silly emotional argument based on nothing.
In the end it boils down to a question of what is considered more important: corporate rights or public rights, corporate power or constitutional power, trade secrets or freedom of the press. (and even if you believe Think Secret, etc. do not constitute "the press" only someone with blinkers on would refuse to admit that a ruling in favour of Apple could have far-reaching implications for the press) For those who are true patriots of the U.S. (i.e. those that love their country and their constitution) the answer will be obvious: the constitution trumps any corporation and should not be watered down to benefit corporations at the cost of the public. For those who love corporations (and often governments) more than their country the answer will also be obvious: corporate rights trump constitutional rights and shouldn't be let to stand in the way of profit and power. |
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