I'm wondering if Apple's engineers ate a rotten apple to come up with what has to be one of the strangest messages to would-be pirates. If you're the type of person to fiddle with software piracy and one of your goals is running Apple's OS X on an Intel processor but want to get away with stealing, you're going to meet a strange end.

According to Vnunet: A hacker working on porting OS X to non-Mac systems encountered the poem, which has been circulating on Mac forums:

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

A spokesperson for Apple confirmed that the poem (if you even want to call it that) is found when trying to run a pirated version of the OS X software. If only the RIAA did this, then maybe we would grow to love them in their wacky mission to keep everyone from downloading music. I don't know, maybe they can change it up a little bit and do a rap.