Apple has been on the patent trolling warpath recently, dragging Motorola and Samsung into court over violating things like its "slide to unlock" feature.

You remember Righthaven.

One of the big advantages copyright trolls have had so far in their endeavors is that they're able to sue lots of people all at once because, after all, if you used BitTorrent, you contributed a little bit to the fraud and so you should pay a million billion dollars.

You may have heard that music labels were trying to get "locker" services like Amazon Cloud and whatever Google's doing shut down unless they paid the labels massive chunks of change, kind of like that time Universal tried to demand that they get a royalty for every iPod sold, because, like, music was totally stolen off of the Internet and listened to on iPods, so that's Apple's fault.