Reinstalling OS X Lion after erasing the HD A friend of mine recently bought a used Macbook (I believe it's the model before the last Macbook model from 2011). It had OSX Lion installed. I rebooted the system, held down Command + R and used Disc Utilities to to wipe it out. When I went to reinstall Lion, I get an error say that the item is not available and to try again later. Of course, trying again later has done me no good.

Any ideas? I've read elsewhere online that this is a common problem but have not found any solutions.
You can purchase Lion at Apple on a DVD: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion I guess that is the only legal way to install Lion on a clean Mac.