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Apple Wins Against Thinksecrets.com
Tagged Under : Apple
With the immanent shut down of the site thinksecret.com, a victory is granted to apple against the leaks about apple’s future products and it enrages many to retort aggressively against the company. So does this mean that tall free speech is questioned upon by the closure of a site that encouraged free journalism? Apple filed a lawsuit against the site in 2004 for preventing the site from leaking out its trade secrets. In response to this the filed a lawsuit against apple making a motion field under the California doctrine that is meant to prevent any baseless law suites that inhibit the right to free speech.
These are also known as the anti slap law laws that are meant for strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation. This case had been put on hold ever since. The site had mounted a very aggressive fist amendment defense. So why did the site lose? Mr. Ciarelli the owner of the site who founded the site when he was 13 refused to comment on the loss and only said that he was very satisfied. Lawyers following the case closely repost that the definition of settlement is a huge secret cash settlement by apple.
Tags: Apple
