Apple will put up with a certain amount of shenanigans, then it brings in the legal wolves. This week, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of the Hardware 2.0 blog broke the store of Apple cloner Psystar being taken to court for its practice of shipping US$399 Intel clones with Mac OS X 10.5 pre-installed, an action which is in direct violation of Apple's End User License Agreement (EULA).

Psystar has been shipping the clones since April of 2008.

A report by News.com’s Ina Fried revealed that the suit was filed on July 3rd in U.S. District Court in Northern California, though the complaint itself is not available. An Apple representative told Fried that “We take it very seriously when we believe people have stolen our intellectual property.”

Psystar has yet to comment on the situation.

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