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ThinkSecret.com Now Offline

Friday February 15, 2008 5:43 am PST by Arnold Kim
ThinkSecret.com officially went offline today, after the December announcement that they had settled their lawsuit with Apple. As part of the settlement agreement, ThinkSecret agreed that they would stop publishing, but due to existing advertising obligations they continued publishing in a limited fashion until February 14th.

ThinkSecret founder, Nick Ciarelli, is rumored to have received some amount of monetary compensation from Apple as part of their final settlement.
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Markleshark
52 months ago
A bit of a shame, but never mind. 9to5Mac next? :rolleyes:
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DoFoT9
52 months ago
hhmm not good, theyr all slowly going down. hopefully MR doesnt have the same thing in store for it !!!
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AdeFowler
52 months ago
That is a shame. I stopped going there a while ago, but remember the days when it was the first stop for juicy, believable rumours. Good luck Nick :(
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Curtis72
52 months ago
Just a fact of life. Websites come and go by one cause of another. There forum site is still online however (applenova.com)
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guzhogi
52 months ago
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Can
52 months ago

Just a fact of life. Websites come and go by one cause of another. There forum site is still online however (applenova.com)



It seems to be closed for new posts.
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shompa
52 months ago
i am loosing fate in Apple.
Buying off journalists and closing websites.
Not even Microsoft does that.
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InLikeALion
52 months ago
Think Secret was my first foray into Apple rumor sites, 4 years ago. I witnessed their decline in writing/rumors, and through community posts found AI and MR and moved on. Still, they were one of the originals and one with some of the juiciest stuff - hence the lawsuit, et al. I feel, though, that I've said my goodbyes a long time ago, as I haven't actively visited their site in years.
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al256
52 months ago
Wow...

So now it's Think Secret, appleturns.com, and crazyapplerumors.com We're losing the websites that helped form our Mac culture and now we're getting more switchers than ever before. We're not going to be the same after the next few years...
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Le Big Mac
52 months ago

As part of the settlement agreement, ThinkSecret agreed that they would stop publishing, but due to existing advertising obligations they continued publishing in a limited fashion until February 14th.
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Ha. I just assumed the check hadn't cleared yet . ..
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