Question about pirated software and Apple's Genius Bar

[trevorikrath]

Seeing as a I have no idea what forum this question actually belongs in I'll just hope this is a semi-appropriate place to post such query. Anyways, what would happen if I went into an Apple store with say, a macbook running a pirated copy of Lion? I know jailbreaking an iPhone voids its warranty (or something like that) but what kind of consequences could I face if a Genius Bar employee were to realize I had a pirated OS? Would they even realize it?

Just for the record, my OS is totally above board. I'm just asking for a friend who's still running on Snow Leopard. And hey, such information might be valuable come this summer...

 

[SRLMJ23]

If they do diagnostics on it, they will probably realize its pirated and therefor won't work on it. It takes a lot of balls to walk in a Apple Store with a pirated copy of their OS. DONT DO IT.