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Cult of Mac: Ciarelli: Apple’s Lawyers Have Gone Soft
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli talks about Apple's legal take on rumors sites
The Mac Observer: Nick DePlume Resurfaces, Says Apple's Gone Soft on Rumors
MacDailyNews: Former Think Secret publisher: Apple throws in the towel on fighting leaks
Ciarelli: Apple’s Lawyers Have Gone Soft
Cult of Mac —
... In Not So Secret Apple, Ciarelli argues that Apple’s famously fierce legal attack dogs have calmed down somewhat since the day, a few years ago now, when his constant flow of Apple product leaks and scoops at Think Secret brought them crashing down on him, and his web site to a grinding halt. ...
Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli talks about Apple's legal take on rumors sites
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Nick Ciarelli, the 13-year old founder of Think Secret, who famously later settled his lawsuit with Apple as a senior at Harvard for an undisclosed sum(and was subsequently forced to shut down ThinkSecret) today writes a blog post on The Daily Beast. His contention is that Apple has called off the lawyers recently in light of the negative press the lawsuits caused (and net neutral effect they had on the spread of Apple rumors). ...
Nick DePlume Resurfaces, Says Apple's Gone Soft on Rumors
The Mac Observer —
... Nick Ciarelli, who formerly ran the Think Secret Website as Nick DePlume, thinks that Apple has thrown in the towel when it comes to fighting leaks. Apple's lawyers have suddenly become silent on the issue, Mr... ...
Former Think Secret publisher: Apple throws in the towel on fighting leaks
MacDailyNews —
... web. But when I spoke to many of the sites that published the images, all of them said that the company's lawyers had been strangely silent." Ciarelli reports, "'There's no doubt that Apple has changed,' Jeremy Horwitz, editor in chief of iLounge, told me in an email. 'Probably due to the awful PR its prior lawsuits generated, and because cease-and-desist letters only confirm leaks, Apple has wisely stopped going after the people who generate its 'buzz.'" More in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.] ...
Apple Loosening Muzzles?
TheAppleBlog —
One of the inaugural stories on just-launched news site The Daily Beast is a column by the founder and former editor of Mac news and rumors site Think Secret, Nicholas Ciarelli. The article suggests that Apple is relaxing its notoriously strict veil of secrecy. Think Secret was shuttered in 2007 because of a suit brought by Apple following Ciarelli’s decision not to remove details of the Mac Mini published before its release.
Ciarelli points to the many recent instances of early product leaks from other rumor sites which have not resulted in site closures or suits. The following is from an interview conducted for the ...
ThinkSecret Creator Returns to the Internet, Still Talking About Apple [Apple]
Gizmodo —
Remember Nicholas Ciarelli, the precocious tween who started a successful Apple rumor blog, only to have it shuttered by the company's legal team? He's now posting on the DailyBeast, and he's got some interesting things to say about his favorite plaintiff: namely that since the negative PR resulting from Ciarelli's case, Apple seems to have realized the buzz-building value of early leaks and non-response to rumors. Nicholas might still be pretty young, but he's also still right. It's definitely worth a read. [DailyBeast]
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