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So what about photos of a new car prototypes? There are a bunch of magazines devoted to those. Or reviews of to-be-released movies? Or photos of celebs in pub
by kjhgfghjknbv 16y ago
So what about photos of a new car prototypes? There are a bunch of magazines devoted to those.
Or reviews of to-be-released movies?
Or photos of celebs in public?
Not terribly happy about companies using the Police to break down doors to manage their PR.
- Lazlo_Nibble 16y agoIf Car & Driver bought a Ferrari prototype from someone who clearly wasn't its legal owner, then ran a big front-page teardown story on the car with a snarky sidebar about how stupid it was for Ferrari to "lose" it, do you really think the resulting police raid would just be "Ferrari managing their PR"?
- joezydeco 16y agoCar makers disguise their field test prototypes with bras, dazzle paint, fake body panels, etc. http://www.carandsuv.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Vauxhall-insignia-camouflage.jpg http://www.carandsuv.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Vauxha... ...just like Apple did with the Fake 3G skin.
- anigbrowl 16y agoreviews to-be-released movies well might you ask. In this case, an unreleased movie made its way through a longer chain of people, eventually ending up on bittorrent...for which the uploader did ~5 months in jail and >1 year of supervised release: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/valenteCharge.htm http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/valenteCharge.htm Not an identical situation, of course...but not so very different either. Apparently the sentence was reasonably light on the basis that there was no profit involved. Adding $ into the equation usually changes things for the worse in a case like this.
- joubert 16y agoI don't think a celeb in public would fall within the gambit of trade secret protection, unless you mean the latest lactic surgery technique the celeb sports.