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The soap opera of would-be Mac cloner Psystar was already full of shady twists and turns, but there’s a possibility Apple’s legal team thinks there’s some truth to a few of the wilder conspiracy theories out there — a paragraph tacked on to an amended version of the complaint filed in California says that Apple believes people or corporations “other than Psystar are involved in Psystar’s unlawful and improper activities.” That could mean just about anything, of course — we’ve always thought Psystar was being a little too cocky, and no one’s ever figured out how a fledging company that couldn’t even hold on to a credit card processor could retain such a hotshot law firm — but chances are Apple’s just covering its ass in case it wants to sue the major investors of Psystar individually or even the OSx86 hackers that unwillingly enabled the company’s dubious business. Either way, with all of Psystar’s antitrust counterclaims dismissed and Apple adding new DMCA claims to its lawsuit, we’ve got a feeling things are about to go boom in Florida pretty soon — if machines really are still shipping, this is probably your last chance to grab a piece of (semi-functional) history.

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