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Nazis, Not Pirates

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I was cleaning up my home office recently and I found a couple of installation disks for Apple's OS X Tiger operating system, 10.4.7. They must have come with the Macbook Pro I bought back in early 2006, and since that time I've upgraded  several times, to 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), and in the not too distant future I'm sure I'll make the move to 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Because I have absolutely no need to keep the OSX Tiger disks, I figured I'd sell them on eBay. After all, they might be of some use to someone with an older Mac who wants to stay on that older version of the OS, or who possibly has lost or damaged their original disks. I listed them online for $1, eBay's minimum bid, and hoped that they  might be of some benefit to someone, somewhere. Less than 24 hours after listing them, I get an email from eBay telling me they had to pull the ad after getting a takedown notice from the Business Software Alliance . "Your item was remo...