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July 02, 2005
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Apple Plugging Trade Secret Leaks?
Daring Fireball notes that two recent announcements from Apple have taken place with nary a word in the rumor mill (Plugged Leaks).
Note to crackpots: this is not a “chilling effect” of Apple’s lawsuits; to say so implies the rumor sites had information, but were intimidated from publishing it. That’s not the case — Apple Insider, for example, continues to publish whatever it can get its hands on,
It might not be a "chilling effect" on
Apple Insider, but that doesn't mean that
Apple v. Does has not had an effect on those who are actually doing the leaking. You'll be much less likely to leak if you think that those who publish the leaks have to turn your name over. It might also be, as
Daring Fireball notes "the result of good old-fashioned leak-plugging." In other words, companies can control the leak of trade secrets if they try.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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1. Happy on July 4, 2005 03:02 PM writes...
This is a side note to this story. At some point i was leaning to more of the blogger side when it came to these law suits brought up by Apple, but, in some moment of irony, it was Cory Doctoraw that convicned me that just by being a blogger you were not in fact a journalist. In the following two links to boing boing, we see where Cory posts flat out lies:
Permalink to Commenthttp://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/29/apple_adds_drm_to_po.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/01/new_version_of_itune.html
In both cases he obviously made no attempt to verify what he was posting. I could be wrong, but I tend to think journalists verify facts, or attmept to. In one case he did post a follow up that was correct, and in the other case he doesn't. This isn't even close to something that represents journalism.