From [url="http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66293,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5"]Wired News[/url].
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The 19-year-old publisher of a website facing a lawsuit over an article about a top-secret $500 Apple computer said Friday he can't afford to defend himself.
Apple Computer is suing Harvard University student Nicholas Ciarelli's website, [url="http://www.thinksecret.com/"]Think Secret[/url], alleging it illegally published company trade secrets. The Jan. 4 lawsuit also targets the website's unnamed sources for the leaks.
Ciarelli, whose identity as the site's publisher and editor was only revealed this week, is not named as a defendant. But he still needs a lawyer, and said he is hoping to find free or low-cost legal help to argue that he deserves First Amendment protection and used proper news-gathering techniques to break news about the Mac mini computer and other inside information about Apple.
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It would really suck to have Apple or for that matter any huge company breathing down throat for releasing secret information about their upcoming products. I read another article where they interviewed Ciarelli and he said he has been a fan of apple since he was 11 I think. I don't know if they are trying to make an example out of him, or some other reason they are really trying to go after him, who knows.. Its sites like his, [url="http://www.thinksecret.com/"]ThinkSecret.com[/url], and other Apple rumor/fan sites that keep people interested in their products.