Are Apple being taken for a ride or are we?

This is a strange one?  It opens a few questions and I'd love to know the real answer but I doubt i ever will. If what I've found out in the past few days is true then it's not just appalling but also down right stupid.
Being in charge of many MacBooks at work, and having just purchased another 50 or so I wanted to buy protective cases for all of them. Not wanting to pay 50 US$ for each case i looked to purchase locally.  Being in Asia this shouldn't have been too much of a problem as most cheap plastic accessories are no doubt made here right? Right!
Order made I was told I had to wait a few days as the cases had to be shipped in from Singapore...no big problem till customs got involved and refused to let the items into Thailand!  Why?  Because, the hole in the cases, or more importantly in the top case held an Apple logo!  Hello!!!  They're MacBook cases.
OK, I'll cut to the chase in case you're not with me yet.  I understand Apple wanting to protect their logo, but why the hell would Apple not want their product to be advertised?  I could, after all put a cover on my MacBook that said MICROSOFT IS BEST!  But instead i choose to show their little glowing Apple logo because I'm a proud Apple owner.
So what's gone wrong?
Well i see it pretty simply.  Either Apple have become so greedy over selling their own 50c plastic cases for 50 US$  that they've lost the plot, or they are being betrayed by copyright laws who are trying to protect them.
A 10 cent Apple logo car sticker created by some 'odd bod' company isn't seen as copyright infringement?  Why is a MacBook case that promotes the product within?
I know what I'm going to do....look out for my new cases on the market soon.  I guess we can say what ever we want as long as it doesn't promote Apple!

Where do our morals lie?

Do we always live up to the standards that we expect of our students?  One question that was asked at a conference I attended some time back raised the issue of morality and more importantly teacher morality.  For example, smoking was discussed. Most teachers, even the smokers, would discourage students to even consider taking up smoking.  Regardless of the Social Pariah status placed upon smokers these days we all know the health risks.  As a result of all the health warning most, if not many would shy away from tobacco.
So what happens when it comes to pirated digital media?  What about DVDs? Music?  I'm pretty sure teachers would be able to point out the 'wrongs' of this media, but when we are surrounded by it, when it is the widely accepted norm should we care?  Do our students even know that it is illegal and why, and what the real consequences of piracy are? Or are the music and film industries far too rich for us to be concerned about?