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No IP was devulged
There was no damage done, in fact it only helped them

first of all to be a trade secret it would have to devulge the technical secret inside (i.e. - schematics, code, Patents, ingrediaents,). Devulging that a new car is being built by ford before they tell you it's being released to the public is not IP or a trade secret. That's life, it happens, or are you gonna gag every employee from talking to their sposue or relative.

Trade secret laws were made so no technical knowledge gets out, like how to manufacture the product. Not what the product will do, or look like. It's kind hard keeping that a secret considering you have advertisers you are woking with and art designers (not in your company), which do not have to follow the same rules.

Now the fact that free speech supercedes the trade secret law (only except in national security). Why is that so, because it's necessary in a democracy to get to the truth (in corruption cases/government waste/deceitful prcatices of business)

case in pint the tobacco industry and the papers that were leak to the press on the manufacturing of their products (increase nicotine levels to increase addiction, as well as hiding their own studies which found tobacco harmful - causes cancer ), their advertising campaigns (targeting minors).

Or how about government corruption where the government could say it was a secret and hide the truth and use their powers to muzzle whistleblowers.

Free speech is a right, defend it or you will wind up in a country where corruption reigns and crime pays
Posted by: twinkler@...   Posted on: 03/05/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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So what's the penalty for nondisclosure  FilledOut | 03/07/05
Contempt of court  tic swayback | 03/07/05
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The problem is more the law than the judge  tic swayback | 03/05/05
Correction - in some respects  twinkler@... | 03/05/05
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The "small player" (Bill Gates is at the end).  Vily Clay | 03/04/05
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John, meet Vily. Vily, meet John.  tic swayback | 03/04/05
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You can live in your dreamWorld, as long as you can. (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/04/05
Nurse Ratchet, Code RED  osreinstall | 03/04/05
osreinstall, I understand that your brains belong to Bush. (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/04/05
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osreinstall, I have a mirror for you.  Vily Clay | 03/06/05
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Yeah Sure  osreinstall | 03/07/05
Admitting that you have hallucinations is a first step to get well. (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/07/05
BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! !  osreinstall | 03/08/05
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This is wrong  Been_Done_Before | 03/04/05
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Good cause, bad approach  tic swayback | 03/04/05
Doesn't seem fair...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 03/04/05
Specific protections under law  tic swayback | 03/04/05
Here's the problem  j.m.galvin | 03/04/05
Well said  tic swayback | 03/04/05
Good Point  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 03/04/05
Federal court  j.m.galvin | 03/04/05
Trade secrets or a typical paranoia ('Stalin syndrome' by Steve Jobs)? (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/04/05
No IP was devulged  twinkler@... | 03/05/05
How did it help them?  tic swayback | 03/05/05
ok tic , here are some reason  twinkler@... | 03/05/05
You are confused  tic swayback | 03/05/05
You chose the ?right? side - corporations. The rest are pigs, aren?t they?  Vily Clay | 03/05/05
Just to be clear  tic swayback | 03/05/05
Are you sure that 'our legal system' is ours? (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/05/05
Not as much as I'd like  tic swayback | 03/05/05
Suggestion - stand up for your rights more consistently while you can. (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/06/05
This is a good thing  doh123 | 03/04/05
No "new Products" to hype anyways....  Feldwebel Wolfenstool | 03/05/05
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