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Subject: Re: [Politech] EFF helps bloggers sued by Apple with legal defense [fs]
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:18:23 -0800
From: john gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
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I want to voice my opinion in favor of Apple's defensive stance against the bloggers and their informants. What these bloggers did is different from reporter confidentiality because of the type of information. Reporters can interview infamous, outlawed figures without fearing legal repercussions of hiding their whereabouts because they are reporting stories, viewpoints, and other non-protected insider information. However, the owners of these sites took information from their sources *knowing that it was confidential, trade-secret information*. They willingly trafficked in illegal information. These are not reporters sharing free albeit insider knowledge, these are bloggers knowingly sharing legally protected intellectual property.
On one hand, I don't think Apple should take too aggressive a stance, since bullying their fans makes them unpopular, but on the other hand they can't stand around watching their information illegally leaked to business competitors.
~ john
On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
[And of course thanks to Apple's announcements on Tuesday, we know that many of the bloggers were right... --Declan]
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: EFF: Apple Can't Strongarm Bloggers Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:27:01 -0800 From: EFF Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release
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