Mac OS X Piracy Is Dead: Lion Only Available Via Mac App Store

There’s no reason (and maybe no way?) to steal Mac OS X anymore: It’s only available via the Mac App Store – and it’s only $31.99. A deal too good to pirate, really.

I wonder how much Windows 8 upgrades are gonna be?

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(8 Comments)
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    ChrisP

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    On two of my MacBooks at home I still use Leopard (10.5) Would be good to know if I really needed to upgrade them to Snow Leopard just to get the App store so that I can upgrade again to Lion?

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    Kai Howells

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 8:38 AM

    Only available through the app store… unless, you know, you get a new Mac which has a recovery DVD…

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    Terence D

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10:48 AM

    I have faith that somebody out there will discover a way to pirate this, App Store or no.

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    mattt

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    People can already pirate apps from the app store, I don’t see how this will be any different really, unless each download has a magical unique key which is unbreakable

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    Mingo3k

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM

    Some of us with a hackintosh can’t update straight off the app store without it breaking things. So other forms of download or patch etc are more desirable for me.

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    CarlosC

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 9:23 PM

    Nonsense. Here’s my picture: Wife and I (two Macbooks), rural OZ (or rural anywhere for that matter), 3G connection, $100 for 5GB/month.

    Now 4GB download for each computer = 1.6 Months worth of internet connection (which we need for work), $160 plus the software and countless hours downloading via 3G.

    Even at $130, it would be much cheaper and easier for us (and I’m sure for a lot of people) to get a stupid DVD.

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    Nick Arcifa

    Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 9:31 PM

    so what, a user like me that doesn’t buy things off the web and doesnt have anywhere near the internet quota to download a whole OS will be left where exactly?

    shit idea in my opinion

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    Dain Bramage

    Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM

    The irony in this article is most hackers get a buzz out of pirating stuff that is supposed to be impossible to pirate.

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