Hidden Razor Found In Apple

How’s this for biting the hand that creates the buzz: Apple are suing Apple-buzz weblog Think Secret for releasing information in November and December of 2004 that could only have been obtained by someone who had signed a confidentiality agreement with Apple. Shock Horror.

The site has made it’s name out of providing exclusive news about Apple’s products and therefore helping create the buzz around them. Now the big bad Apple bites back with a law suit about something someone told them and they published!

"We’re confident that Think Secret’s reporting is consistent with the right and privileges granted by the First Amendment," the sites editor, Nick dePlume wrote to Reuters.

We’re all hoping that the rotters change their mind about pursuing this. What a bunch of morons – and more importantly – what a challenge to bloggers rights.

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