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I used kickass torrents to download Microsoft Windows 8 ISO (after legally buying it from Microsoft, MS did not have the ISO anywhere for me to download, and I needed it for a VM)

Then yesterday I used kickass torrents to download Mac OS Mavericks, because Yosemite is a piece of shit but Apple doesn't make Mavericks available any more, and torrenting was the only way to downgrade my OS.

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If you want the ISO just to make a VM, you might be able to get a fully legal one from the modern.ie website:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

The VMs you get from there "self destruct" after a month or so but thats good enough for most testing purposes.

Just create the VM and clone it before you login for the first time, and use the clone. Never expires that way.

Just in case it comes up again, or the info helps anybody else: you can download old Mac OS X releases if you previously purchased from the App Store. They'll appear in the Purchased tab of the App Store, and you can download the installer from there. You can then dig into the installer and get at the .dmg.

It's excessively dumb that Apple makes it this hard, but it can be done.

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