The 19-year-old publisher of a website facing a lawsuit over an article about a top-secret $499 US Apple computer said Friday he can't afford to defend himself.
Apple Computer Inc. is suing Harvard University student Nicholas Ciarelli's website, www.ThinkSecret.com, alleging it illegally published company trade secrets. The Jan. 4 lawsuit also targets the website's unnamed sources for the leaks.
Ciarelli, whose identity as the site's publisher and editor was only published this week, is not named as a defendant. But he still needs a lawyer, and said he is hoping to find free or low-cost legal help to argue that he deserves First Amendment protection and used proper newsgathering techniques to break news about the Mac mini computer and other inside information about Apple.
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