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**Appeals Court Sides with Mac News Sites over Apple** -- In a
  major victory for online news sources, an appeals court ruled
  last week that Apple could not subpoena email in order to trace
  the source of leaked trade secrets. In December 2004, PowerPage
  and Apple Insider posted stories about an unannounced Apple audio
  product, code-named Asteroid, which included information and
  drawings leaked from sources inside the company. Apple could not
  identify the sources of the leaks, and therefore sued "John Does"
  for breach of confidentiality agreements; as part of the discovery
  process, Apple sought to subpoena PowerPage's ISP to obtain stored
  email that might reveal the sources' identities. Apple claimed
  that the site's owners were not genuine journalists and that, even
  if they had been, they had no right to protect their anonymous
  sources. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took up the
  case, arguing that Apple's attempts to obtain this information
  violated both federal and California laws. Although a lower court
  had sided with Apple in March 2005, last week's ruling by the
  California Court of Appeals overturns that decision. One upshot
  of last week's ruling is that ISPs cannot be forced to turn over
  confidential email in response to civil lawsuits - and that
  apparently applies to everyone, not just journalists. [JK]

<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004698>
<http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Apple_v_Does/H028579.pdf>


**iWeb 1.1.1 Improves Comments, Searching, Publishing** -- Apple
  released iWeb 1.1.1 last week, noting that the update "refines
  comment and search support for blogs and podcasts published to
  .Mac," two features that were recently introduced in iWeb 1.1.
  The update also fixes problems related to publishing Web sites
  to .Mac. The iWeb 1.1.1 updater weighs in at a hefty 88.8 MB as
  a stand-alone download (it's also available via Software Update),
  but also includes the changes made in the 1.0.1 and 1.1 updates.
  [JLC]

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iweb111.html>


**Oral Folk Tales of Mac History** -- Stories of famous Mac
  people, the reality distortion field, and years of sleeplessness
  are now available in oral form from Derek Warren. At Macintosh
  Folklore Radio, Warren is reading the snippets that are part of
  Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org that represents part
  of the book Hertzfeld compiled into Revolution in the Valley.
  I reviewed that charming, picaresque tale for TidBITS last year
  (see "Continuous Revolution").

<http://folklore.trideja.com/>
<http://www.folklore.org/>
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007191/tidbitselectro00/ref=nosim/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07960>

  Warren is performing these episodes under terms of the Creative
  Commons license that Hertzfeld applied to his writing (though
  Warren still asked permission). The episodes can be downloaded as
  podcasts from the iTunes Music Store, too. It's ironic, of course,
  that a site that purports to tell the true story is called
  Folklore.org, that a written history is being turned into
  "oral folklore," and that the voice reading the stories isn't
  that of the first-person author who wrote them as "folklore." [GF]

<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/>
<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=154536992>



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