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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple
Computer Inc. is suing people who al
legedly posted secret product infor
mation on the Internet, becoming the
latest company to take aim at Web
gossip that provides increasingly ac
curate insider information.
The civil complaint, filed Wednes
day in Santa Clara County, Calif.,
seeks an injunction against an un
named individual or individuals
against further disclosure of Apple's
trade secrets, as well as monetary
damages.
Apple contends that a person us
ing a computer pseudonym posted in
formation and images about its new
dual-processor G4 PowerMac and
new oval-shape optical mouse ahead
of the products' release at last month's
MacWorld in New York.
It also said the offenders, which
could number 25 people in total, pub
lished other trade secrets before they
were made public.
The lawsuit is the latest in what are
shaping up to be precedent-setting
state court decisions on how far free-
speech rights extend in protecting
people who anonymously post infor
mation about a company on the Web.
Many companies with large fol
lowings and a large investor base of
ten have whole Internet sites devoted
to discussing developments with that
company. The more authoritative sites
often reveal product information
weeks before a scheduled launch, and
that information is sometimes report
ed by other news organizations.
First Amendment rights advocates
say privacy of anonymous message-
writers should be protected until it is
determined they have violated the
dir
They want
revenge and they
want to unmask
the person who
did it.”
— Paul Levy
Attorney for Public Citizen,
a consumer advocacy group
law. They argue companies are mere
ly trying to intimidate people into be
ing quiet about anything that coni!
negatively affect their bottom line
"There are scads of these laws;,
popping up where somebodyjr
(angry) at information publish
about a company, even if the info*
tion is true," said Paul Levy, an ate
ney for consumer advocacy groi:
Public Citizen. "They want revaj
and they want to unmask the per?
who did it. Hopefully, the courtsm
determine most of these lawsuits®
absolutely about intimidation."
But companies argue they need's
names of individuals to serve thr
with complaints so a judge can deter
mine whether they did break the la
The companies also note employee
often are required to sign nondisdi
sure clauses.
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woman was tortured and forced to live in a storage
shed by her birth mother and stepfather after she
spent years searching for them, police said.
Jennifer Simmons, 19, found Elizabeth M. Katri-
ni after a long search, but what Simmons thought
would be a happy reunion allegedly turned into a
terrifying year of torture.
Katrini, 38, and her husband, Paul Padilla, 41,
were arrested on multiple felony counts of aggra
vated assault and vulnerable adult abuse.
Police said the couple forced the young woman to
live in a storage shed and tortured her repeatedly with
electric shocks, knives and sticks, police said. They
also said Simmons was forced to eat her own feces.
Simmons contacted authorities after escaping
from the shed on July 26, said Wendy Escoffier of the
Camp Verde Town Marshal's Office.
"We are talking here about a continued pattern
of abuse, and her being watched at all times to keep
her from escaping," Escoffier said.
Paul and Mary Padilla, the parents of the step
father, said Jennifer made up the accusations.
Both Padillas said that they had seen the woman
as recently as Father's Day and that she appeared
normal.
"She was treated just like the rest of the kid;
that household," Mary Padilla said.
Mary Ellen Simmons, the victim's adopte
mother in Mesa, said her daughter is mentallyil
which led to the charge of vulnerable adult abuse
She said she sensed all was not well while k
daughter was with Katrini, but in short phone calls
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lage, killing nearly 50 peopleinln-
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The separate attacks came as the
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wracked by an Islamic insurgency
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In the latest violence, the at
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