Apple Lawyers Roar at &#39;Tiger&#39; Leakers
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Apple Computer has filed suit against three individuals it alleges posted illegal test versions of its next version of Mac OS X, code-named &quot;Tiger,&quot; it was reported Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Former star technology banker Frank Quattrone has asked a federal appeals court to seal some letters written in his support in order to protect his family&#39;s privacy.
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Apple Computer Inc. is set to sue several anonymous people who leaked details about new products by posting information on the Internet, it has been claimed.
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Notoriously secretive Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit seeking to silence individuals it accuses of leaking trade secrets about a forthcoming product over the Internet.
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Apple is suing anonymous individuals who it accuses of leaking details to the Web of its unreleased products. The company filed suit in the Santa Clara County California Superior Court on December 13.
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Apple Computer has filed a civil complaint against unnamed individuals who leaked details of upcoming products by posting the information online.
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Updated: The company says someone &quot;has recently misappropriated and disseminated through Web sites confidential information about an unreleased Apple product.
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(InfoWorld) - The beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" that Apple handed out to developers June 11 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has leaked to the Internet and is being downloaded by users of PirateBay, the Swedish torrent tracker. Last Monday, CEO Steve Jobs spent most of this 90-minute WWDC keynote address touting the upcoming OS, which is set for release in October. Eight days later, the beta labeled build "9A466" was uploaded to PirateBay. The first upload on Tuesday didn't take -- there was only one "seeder," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file -- but the second yesterday is being downloaded and assembled, according to comments left by numerous users. As of late yesterday, only four seeders were available, with 181 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. By 3 p.m. today EDT, however, the numbers had climbed to 44 seeders and more than 1,500 leechers. The beta was also posted to the private, invitation-only torrent tracker Oink yesterday, according to CrunchGear, a tech blog. But when CrunchGear exposed the leak, Oink pulled the beta. That sent downloaders into a verbal rage during which they vented their collective spleens at the blogger who outed Oink. "Go [expletive deleted] yourself you [expletive deleted] rat," ranted one. Based on the PirateBay listing, the Leopard 9A466 beta weighs in at a bit more than 6GB. But the exact byte count worried a user tagged as "konelli." "It's definitely not my intention to spoil the party, but how do we know that this is the real thing? Last time I checked, the WWDC version was supposed to be 6.94GB (or 7,450,640,384 bytes). This is, well, less. Has anybody finished downloading who could confirm that this is genuine?" Apple was asked if it planned to pursue the person or persons who leaked the build to BitTorrent, or what actions it might take against PirateBay. It did not immediately respond with comment, however. The first question is especially important in light of past history. The last time an under-development version of Mac OS X ended up on BitTorrent, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker brought out its lawyers. In December 2004, Apple sued three men, as well as 25 others identified only as "Does," for releasing a developer preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, via the BitTorrent file-sharing network. All three were members of the company's own Developer Connection, Apple claimed, and had illegally leaked their copies of Tiger. But after several Apple notables, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, pleaded for leniency in blogs and other online postings, Apple backed off a bit. During a 10-month span from March to December 2005, Apple signed a settlement with the three named defendants: students Vivek Sambhara, David Schwartzstein, and David Steigerwald. Each promised to never again release information about the company or its products, while media accounts reported that Schwartzstein and Steigerwald also distributed repentant statements and paid damages to Apple. "We are pleased that Mr. Steigerwald has taken responsibility for his actions and that we can put this lawsuit behind us," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the Associated Press in March 2005 after the company settled with David Steigerwald, then a 22-year-old North Carolina college student.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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A defamation lawsuit against two Chinese reporters investigating working conditions at Apple's iPod factories is sparking a rash of new press about the case. Kevin Holden reports from Beijing.
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InfoWorld - Apple may have a jones for secrecy, but that doesn&#39;t mean it can keep its partners quiet.
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Apple Inc  Chief Executive Steve Jobs was asked by U.S. securities regulators to give a deposition in a lawsuit against the company's former general counsel involving stock options backdating, Bloomberg reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
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Leak casts light on controversial tactics that may have been employed by the anti-piracy company.
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MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. is suing three developers for distributing Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger," the upcoming version of its operating system the company plans to release sometime in the first half of 2005. The men allegedly released development versions of Tiger on a file-sharing Web site, according to Reuters.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O has  sued three men for illegally distributing test copies of the  next version of its Mac OS X operating system on a file-sharing  Web site, court records showed on Tuesday.
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British consumer watchdog group Consumers&#39; Association, publishers of Which? magazines and books, on Wednesday announced that they&#39;ve written to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging that Apple may be
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The top US computer security watchdog issues a warning about a flaw in Apple's OS X software.