Apple filed a lawsuit in January 2005 to try and force Ciarelli to disclose his source inside the company for pre-announcement news. Think Secret disclosed the release of the Mac Mini and the iLife 05 software suite two weeks ...

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret's publisher, and wrote it up for my day job over at Wired: Apple Kills Think Secret: Publisher Nick Ciarelli Talks. Apple rumor reporter extraordinaire Nick Ciarelli ...

Specifically, the company went after Think Secret for "posting Apple trade secrets and encouraging and inducing persons to provide product information in breach of agreements," the lawsuit said. Ciarelli did say he was ...

According to the article, Apple has filed several lawsuits looking for the source of the leaks that Ciarelli and other web publishers who have made similar predictions in the past. The Crimson reported .... Holding Ciarelli liable for trade secret
infringement on the basis that his anonymous contact system is somehow part of trade secret misappropriation could essentially kill off ThinkSecret and all sites like it, or give companies like Apple total control over them. Personally ...

A 360-Degree View of the Creative World — ThinkSecret.com, an Apple rumor Web site, has settled the lawsuit Apple had brought against it—and will not publish anymore. ... Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret's publisher, said “I'm pleased to have
reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my college studies and broader journalistic pursuits.” ThinkSecret.com, which published Mac and Apple rumors and news, has been around since 1999 ...

In fact, it may be the point: Lawsuits are the only way to settle a dispute in a legal forum. Bitch and whine about Mean Old Apple suing that nice Ciarelli boy all you want, but Apple had no other options to get the information. Well, not legally. Once
they asked Nick directly, and he said "no", their legal ... Nick Ciarelli settling did not kill the First Amendment in this country, nor whatever the equivalent is in Canada. It didn't even dirty it up. In fact, it showed that the system, such as it is, still ...

One of the biggest factors in this settlement is Apple's good will. NIck Ciarelli is young and this lawsuit makes them [Apple] look like bullies. I wish Apple had not chosen this route, but I see it as very strategic, and very ...

Nicholas Ciarelli Bows to Apple, Agrees to Shut down 'Think Secret' Web Site One of the biggest stories of this Friday-before-Christmas was a report that Apple and Apple, First Amendment, free speech, journalist, lawsuit, leak, Nicholas Ciarelli,
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Apple Killed Think Secret! Those Bastards! Doug Aamoth. Thursday, December 20th, 2007. Comments. thinksecret.jpg Apple and Apple blog Think Secret have settled their long running legal dispute over leaked Apple secrets, and under the
deal Think Secret will cease operation. ... Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret's publisher, said “I'm pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my college studies and broader journalistic pursuits.” ...

Apple makes the messenger kill himself AppleTalk Archives. ... Apple said Ciarelli "induced" employees to leak with his open invitation for insider dope, and it wanted names. Ciarelli said he was just using standard news ...