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Extended Rentals With iTunes’ Movies

January 21, 2008 by in Random with 9 Comments

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Those pesky Gizmodo folks! When they’re not shutting the TVs off at CES they’re figuring out ways to take advantage of iTunes’ movie rentals. They’ve confirmed that by adjusting your system time you will be able to watch movies for longer than Apple would want you to. $5 to watch a new release as much as I want for a year? Sounds good to me, but what about you?

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  • http://www.uneasysilence.com ClaMs

    Just a thought from someone who cannot get access to iTunes Movie rentals, yet at least: Is it possible to import the rented movies into iMovie?

  • Jerry

    MacWorld is over right? Is there anything non-Apple to read about yet?

  • chad

    @JERRY

    yea

    http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx

    have at it buddy.

  • Ian

    It might be last night’s booze playing tricks on me, but I somehow remember reading that Apple plugged this whole by doing a check on the iTMS for the correct time there.

  • Minh

    Would anybody happen to know if it keeps track of the time on the iPod also? If not, one could just keep it on your iPod by not syncing it for an extended period of time… However, it does sound highly impractical.

  • Jack

    This doesn’t actually work, they just thought it might. Read the post!

  • Tom

    All these virtual “renting” systems are doomed to fail. If something’s on my hard drive, and I want to keep it, I’ll find a way.

  • Rob D

    Those Gizmodo people are just trying to find out how many different ways to get into trouble….exposing the bad code to the world…and…people not shutting off the ir capabilities of televisons at CES without…I don’t know…tape…bad..bad…bad

  • tyson

    I would argue that most people don’t want a terabyte of movies etc in their house….renting will become even more popular because you don’t have to drive to the store!

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