Nick Wingfield of the Wall Street Journal reports today that Apple Computer Inc. can subpoena information related to the sources of online stories containing information about an unreleased Apple product. Judge Kleinberg of California superior court in Santa Clara County denied a request by three "bloggers," -- Monish Bhatia, Kasper Jade and Jason O'Grady -- who published articles late last year on several Web sites, including PowerPage and AppleInsider, about an Apple device code-named Asteroid designed to link musical instruments with Apple software.
The judge accepted Apple's argument that the stories contained trade secrets that, in effect, were stolen property, not unlike a physical item such as a laptop containing confidential information.
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