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Apple Settles with Mac OS X Leaker

Sunday March 27, 2005 12:02 pm PST by Arnold Kim
Reuters reports that Apple has settled its lawsuit with one of three individuals who were sued for distributing early versions of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

News of the lawsuits were made public in December 2004 involving three men who posted developer releases of Mac OS X on file-trading sites.

Details of the settlement are limited with indications that the defendant would pay "an undisclosed sum" to Apple.

Apple has been becoming increasingly aggresive in their legal actions against software and information leaks related to their hardware and software.
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Mord
90 months ago
wander how much, i suspect it would be a very little settlement as to show that he payed but apple would have no interest getting a couple of thousand dolars from a student.

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realityisterror
90 months ago
I really don't like the way Apple is starting to handle these situations. I understand piracy steals a large chunk of their money each year, but to take his/her money instead? Just give him/her a warning at least.

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bdkennedy1
90 months ago
Geez are the people that run this site asleep? I read this story on different sites on Thursday.
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johnnyjibbs
90 months ago
While I do think that Apple's [recent] legal stance has been rather harsh, particularly with regard to the Think Secret/rumour sites stuff, but if you deliberately distribute a secretive product on the internet or otherwise, you are giving away stolen property in addition to leaking the information about it. These people need to be taught a lesson so that they won't do similar things again. You have to be tough in this instance.
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Mechcozmo
90 months ago

While I do think that Apple's [recent] legal stance has been rather harsh, particularly with regard to the Think Secret/rumour sites stuff, but if you deliberately distribute a secretive product on the internet or otherwise, you are giving away stolen property in addition to leaking the information about it. These people need to be taught a lesson so that they won't do similar things again. You have to be tough in this instance.


Agreed. It is one thing to post some screen shots of Tiger... another thing to post Tiger itself.
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jared_kipe
90 months ago
Well maybe the "undisclosed amount" is simply to dissuade people from doing it in the future, maybe apple hasn't gone all evil on us.
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gangst
90 months ago

Geez are the people that run this site asleep? I read this story on different sites on Thursday.


Whereabouts were you able to read this on Thursday???
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sky131
90 months ago
I read it on etrade on Thursday as well, and posted it to this site for approval then. They must have gotten busy.
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Windowlicker
90 months ago

Geez are the people that run this site asleep? I read this story on different sites on Thursday.


I don't think anyone's making much money for keeping this site running.. so let's give the moderators a brake, shall we? It's easter after all..
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gwangung
90 months ago

I really don't like the way Apple is starting to handle these situations. I understand piracy steals a large chunk of their money each year, but to take his/her money instead? Just give him/her a warning at least.

reality


What part of "binding legal contract" are folks having a problem with?

I think the reason why Apple is getting harsher about these things is that people DON'T take NDAs that seriously.
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