Click to viewUpdate : That was fast . It ’s busted — or fixed , depending on your POV . See the jump . Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6 ? Awesome . That pesky 24 - time of day viewing window once you ’ve start the picture ? Not so much . And even if you get a little trigger - well-chosen and cluck playact only two Bachelor of Medicine into the download , the ego - destruct timekeeper activates . What if you need just alittle routine more prison term ? Or peradventure a whole batch more fourth dimension . We ’d discover you couldextend the doomsday clockby toying around with your system ’s engagement / time . We test it and it ’s true . There is , of course , a catch or two .
Yesterday we rented 300 and started playing it only 5 MB into the download — it was fast and smooth . Very nice . But now I ’ve only gravel 9 hour left to go through the magic . With time running out , I shut down iTunes , do my clock back and restarted the program to see if it does bestow a Lazarus consequence . Sure enough , it did . I even got a piddling mad with mightiness here , turn the clock back to 2003 to see just how potent this philosophers' stone is . iTunes yelled at me :
But when it started back up , see it out :
That ’s correct . iTunes knows I was playing God and messing with time on a massive scale . But I got three years to determine my movie anyway ! Unfortunately , this trick does not do work to revive already utter flicks — once they expire , they ’re automatically dumped . I fuck , because I launch my computer forrad in meter by a daytime and dumbfound this :
So , this is a great way of life to extend the life history of motion picture rentals by a couple of hours if you ’re running recently on finishing it , but it ’s not really a virtual style to steal movies , since your would have to live in the past every clip you fired up iTunes .
Another thought was to set up the reckoner ’s time up before we lease , thinking you could then arrange it back to normal and have as much metre as you wanted . Being adventurous , we seek to set the clock ahead 50 yr . The homemade XP Pro estimator we used in testing was n’t build for serious time travel , however . The 50 - twelvemonth shift made everything go kablooey . So we tried the more modest jump of one year . It worked .
Giz - Certified Best Method
Take your system of rules into the futurity ( but not too far ) before you snap caper for the first time , which starts the 24 - minute clock . Start the movie . Then exit iTunes and return to the present . We did this with the second movie we rented , play it for the first time in 2009 . We came back to 2008 , and now we have a whole year to keep an eye on it . This method evidently does n’t require as much measured prison term - shift back and away to extend your movies ’ life span as it does if you start play around after you ’ve start the 24 - hour countdown .
Mac Test
We figured it would work on a Mac , but want to be absolutely sure , soBenny Boogladly dropped $ 4 ( which we may or may not reimburse ) to screen it on his MacBook . As you’re able to see , it work :
The bad news is that it does n’t seem to work with iPod / iPhone , however . Benny ’s year - retentive letting is seemingly too much of a time paradox for the iPhone to eat up , so it go along spitting it back up despite a restart and reprise endeavour :
With machinelike system - prison term updates , there ’s a chance any meter you correct will be redress . In that case , you ’d wake up up to a longsighted list of expire flicks . candidly , do n’t number on this hack working for too long anyway since Hollywood is uberprotective of its content and someone ’s spring to lock away this hole down close within day . We do n’t know of a similar trick for Movielink or CinemaNow rentals — maybe you do — but our guess is that it ’s not doable .
Alright so it appears to no longer work . Here ’s what happened on our end . Before , we had set our computer date to 2009 , and started trifle Ratatouille ( and Benny started play The Simpsons ) to originate the 24 - hour timer in 2009 . derive back to 2008 , everything was gravy . We go to play it again just a few minute ago , and it tries to connect to iTunes , and then gives us a 5103 error . Benny get the same heap .
So we edit the busted file and try a smart download , this time with our computer date to Jan. 24 , a mere hebdomad ahead . Download starts , we click play and get the 5103 mistake — we could n’t even get it start in the future , which was the fundament of the original trick . Adrian tried to extend a picture he hire last night by throw his computing machine back a calendar week . 5103 error , though coming back to the nowadays he got it to play . We calculate it would n’t last forever .
We ’re still bet with it , so we ’ll rent you get it on what other tricks we come up with as we confirm them . For now , feel free to go and play Jobs with time for yourself , and by all means report back . [ Apple iTunes ]
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