It would be interesting to have real insight into what Apple thinks about the patent system. Obviously they are going to exploit the current system as best they can, as would any other company. However, the real question is financial for Apple, not ethical or moral, would they stand to make more money or less money based on a change? My guess is they want to eat their cake and have it too...meaning I am sure they want to be paid license fees on their IP and not have to pay anyone else, this would not be unique to Apple though.

Is KIM different? I do not know, but he is being tried criminally for a service that I have always believed is not fundamentally different than Google Drive, DropBox, MS SkyDrive, or iCloud. So it is interesting these guys do not stand up, if not for him, then for themselves as it would stand to reason they may be targeted next, but do you think the feds would ever round up their top level executives military style the way they did KIM?