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Originally Posted by Number 3
Regardless of what Jalopnik (most anti GM site on the internet) says, it is a legally binding "non disclosure agreement". When I have a supplier come in and talk about future products, they have to sign a non-disclosure agreement. When I go to a supplier and they show me some advanced tech, we sign a non-disclosure agreement.
The date for an embargo is there as a courtesy to allow magazines and publishers time to prepare their material for publication (which needs time) so that they can release on the same date as GM (or any OEM for that matter) and satisfy their readers.
What these less than integrity laden folks do is let the first person to violate it and then jump on and go, "hey I didn't do it".
Jalopniks comments are ridiculous.
I'm pretty sure they don't get invited to press events for that reason.
But once it's out there, I would agree, that it's a fine line between holding to your agreement and then simply pointing your readers to the guys that did actually leak the information.
Not sure I like how the front fender in front of the wheel well was done.
Pure awesomeness.
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And if they sign it they should honor it. But if you read jaloponiks opinion on the matter, they never sign anything and tell manufacturers what they're gonna do up front.
In the same piece they said Chrysler sent them an email after they change their policy with embargoed information in it without ever talking to them before hand and assuming they would honor an embargo. Jaloponik then emailed them back telling them of their position (since it was a new policy when this happened) and asked them to take them off their disrtiution list but they continued to send them embargoed info.
At that point, it's on the manufacturer.
But I agree with you on everything else.