EFF to represent defendants in Apple lawsuit
Looks like Dan Gillmor is *almost*
getting his wish.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation will be legally representing
AppleInsider and PowerPage in one of
the (many!) recent Apple lawsuits, although ThinkSecret will not be
represented by the EFF. The lawsuit in question is the suit surrounding the
leak of information regarding the Asteroid audio
interface.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group focused on protecting digital
rights. Their involvement in the two sites’ case stems from a desire to “protect their right to keep confidential the
identities of the people who supplied them with the information… Bloggers break the news, just like journalists do.
They must be able to promise confidentiality in order to maintain the free flow of information.”
The complaint against ThinkSecret is slightly different than the case against
the other two plaintiffs, as the site did not actually print the rumours, but merely posted a link to the rumours of
the Asteroid audio interface on message boards not
owned by ThinkSecret. Note that this lawsuit is unrelated to the recent
lawsuit against ThinkSecret regarding information about
the headless iMac.
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