Apple shuts down fan site

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple shuts down rumours website

Looks like the folk at Apple really are turning into everything all their fanboys and girls didn't want. Recently they've taken out a few defensive law suits against various people but this one takes the biscuit.

Apple is notoriously secretive about forthcoming products and it sued Think Secret claiming that bloggers should not enjoy the same rights to protect sources granted to mainstream journalists.

That really is the core issue of this though. The fact that the bloggers at the center of this case refused to reveal their sources had angered Apple who claimed that bloggers should not enjoy the same rights that mainstream journalists do. Personally I think that is bollocks and I don't really see how a fan site which served to increase the hype in Apple products could have been doing Apple themselves any damage.

I'm pretty sure the blogger at the heart of this got a generous settlement out of it though.