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The entire situation with this what we call stolen phone is still in the news. Looks like Gizmodo still wants to make the headlines. Why else would this EMail be in the wild. We will have to wait and see how this turns out. We do not know as of yet if Apple will pursue these guys further. They Could do that on many fronts. They could simply sue them like they do everyone else. Or they could pursue federal industrial espinage charges. These laws where enacted over the industrial revolution and companies have used them in situation just like this. We are not claiming to be lawyers, but these laws do exist and if Steve Jobs gets mad enough he could pursue further action against Gizmodo. He may not get far, but he has the money to atleast put Gizmodo out of business.

The following story appeared businessinsider.com: "On Gizmodo Editor Brian Lam's Email To Steve Jobs Raises Question: Would Gizmodo Have Published IPhone Story If Apple Hadn't Spurned It?

Gizmodo published its exclusive on the [stolen] iPhone 4.0, Steve Jobs called Gizmodo and asked for it back.

For a variety of reasons, Gizmodo
wanted written proof that the iPhone was Apple's.

Gizmodo had also recently been spurned by Apple (in the iPad media blitz). In a follow-up email to Steve, Brian mentioned this as a reason he had pursued the iPhone story so hard. He also explained why Gizmodo wasn't willing to hand the phone back without a formal request from Apple.

Brian's email certainly raises the question whether Gizmodo would have published the iPhone story if Apple hadn't dissed the site when it sent shiny new iPads to old-media tech gods Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, among others.

Given that Apple has successfully dissuaded old media organizations from reporting stories like this (in exchange for shiny new iPads?), it also raises the question of whether the world's better off with Apple dissing Gizmodo. There's certainly plenty of "access-for-favorable-coverage" journalism around. The world doesn't need any more of it.

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