I think I’ve just seen something new in a long time to come. It brought quite a smile to my lips finding out what Apple had come up with to deter pirated software from occurring in their organization. Really, the best way for that is to start from the root, cease and desist every leak in the company and ensure that no one leaks their source code.

It seems that this poem acts as an interpreter of their karma for the day, telling users that they should not pirate OS X.

Apple confirmed this Wednesday that it has encoded a poem within OS X to warn those who would think about stealing their operating system. The poem was detected by OSx86 Project, a site that was created for all OS X related.

The poem reads:

Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he’d do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don’t steal Mac OS! Really, that’s way uncool. ©Apple Computer Inc.

Let’s see if that works better for them.