While Apple's stock is reaching stratospheric levels and everything is firing on all cylinders. The new cat, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5, is about to be [officially] released at 6PM this Friday. However, sources have confirmed that the final version of Leopard can be found on both the usenet and torrent sites as of today.

Microsoft monitors the uploading of their software and contacts people's ISP's, Apple could be following suit. In any event, support our favorite computer and OS developer, do the right thing and purchase it.

By the way, if you are a student, or know one, in the USA college and university bookstores will be selling Leopard for the nice price of $69. If you don't qualify for the education deal you can order it for $99 plus reasonable shipping here.