Apple Sues Bloggers

Several reports have emerged that Apple is suing bloggers who leaked secrets about Apple products, scheduled for debut at MacWorld Expo this week. Nicholas M. Ciarelli, a freshman at Harvard College and operator of the site thinksecret.com, told The Harvard Crimson that he had been slapped with a lawsuit alleging disclosure of Apple's trade secrets. In a similar case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending publishers of two blogs, AppleInsider and PowerPage, against Apple in order to allow the bloggers to protect the identities of those who leaked the information, according to an EFF news release. The cases raise key questions not only about trade secrets and intellectual property but about the rights of bloggers as publishers of news. Read more about Blogging, Journalism & Credibility. (Thanks to engadget.com for the image.)