Apple has filed two lawsuits recently. First one was for the leak of the Firewire break out box for use with audio equipment. I first saw this on PowerPage.org (no longer available but you can find a Google cache here) and showed up on AppleInsider and Think Secret. Apple is suing someone, they don't know yet, and they subpenoed those three sites for info on who revealed the device so thay can add them to the suit.

They are also suing 3 guys who released Tiger via Bittorrent. As far as I know this is the first time Apple has sued for the prerelease of a OS. I know you could easily get copies of Jaguar via Bittorent before it was released but Apple never did anything about it. I always assumed they didn't mind because they wanted to allow more people to check it out. I find it interesting that they were able to identify who released these, I wonder if there is a serial number or something embedded in the software.

In either case it will make less info leaked to rumor sites, that is disappointing becasue Mac Zealots like me like to hear what's coming. But practically speaking I can say that I support Apple and their hunt of the leaks. Letting it slip that Super Cool Product is going to come out just gives the Apple Hating competition a chance to bring their in development product out faster, maybe before Apple does. Mac Zealots such as my self don't like that. But the question remains, how much of this stuff does Apple leak themselves?