Nick de Plume in trouble

Nicholas M. Ciarelli, aka Nick de Plume, creator of the rumour site ThinkSecret, found himself in quite a tricky situation. He is being sued by Apple for having had informations in anticipation of the announcements. To sum up, his investigation work he did so well, that would have made any journalist so proud, deserved him to be attacked.
This 19 year old young man, as you may know, doesn't have the financial capacities to defend himself. He thus asked for benevolent advocates to help him do so.
Apple blames us for violating the NDA because we unveiled products before they were launched. We had been accused of such a thing many times, which our lawyers friends found veery amusing: how do you violate a contract you never read and especially never signed?
Apple has very little chances of winning, especially since, as the young man has no money, winning will bring them nothing.
This is admitting their weakness for the Apple brand, which proved unable to have their employees keep silent. By attacking a teenager, Apple want to show their staff they're ready to retaliate in order to stop leaks.
Nicholas thus gets sacrified for a cause that's not is.
We do wish that Apple's attack won't turn to be of the boomerang type, as it could incitate some of their employees to givve out more info, just because they disagree with this agressive stance, which would display once more they're unable to catch the real responsible ones.