Michael Arrington, just like millions of other people in the world, likes keeping up to date with technology, browsing YouTube, and maintaining his blog. That fact alone would have made anyone else just shrug him off as another techie, but what makes him a little more special is that he caught Apple's attention. Their lawyers, that is.

What exactly did this man do? Well, horror of horrors, he decided to embed in his blog a YouTube video that is supposedly a demo of Apple's upcoming operating system, the Mac OS X 10.5 a.k.a. Leopard.

In his blog, Arrington posted the Apple lawyer's letter for the world to see. It basically states what we already know, that the Leopard was given to developers and only they are allowed to tinker with it, and that no one is supposed to know about Apple's next big secret besides those chosen few. And there's a bit there about copyright.

Then the next paragraph asks Arrington to "remove this video from your website and take steps to prevent any further distribution of videos or screenshots of Apple software without AppleÂ?s authorization. If you are represented by counsel, please provide me with the identity of that counsel."

Arrington was of course quick to point out to the said lawyer that they should be asking YouTube to take the video down instead of hunting individual sites (a blog, at that) who happened to use YouTube's material. That, as well as the fact that almost the same material is posted on Apple's website.

Though Apple has been known for taking drastic, even exaggerated, steps in protecting their cats (a.k.a. Operating Systems) before the date of unveiling, one can't help but wonder just how far is enough.