The New York Times covers Apple's settlement with a Harvard undergraduate that shut down a popular website devoted to rumors about the company. Apple has engaged in a long-running and costly legal battle against bloggers who publish details on unreleased Apple products. In January, Apple lost a case against two bloggers and was forced to pay $700,000 in legal fees under California's anti-SLAPP statute. Apple has now settled its case against another blogger, the operator of ThinkSecret, on confidential terms. And although the blogger and his lawyer are claiming that the First Amendment was vindicated, it's hard to see how that's the case with the website going offline and the terms of the settlement confidential. As my colleague Paul Levy told the Times: "It’s great for the individual critic to be paid to be quiet, but the public is worse off if we lose the ability to get more information in the marketplace of ideas."