The iTunes movie rentals hack for outside the U.S.

June 3rd, 2008 by Lars Ottesen Henriksen

It’s relatively simple: Create a U.S. iTunes account but don’t give out your credit card. To get money into your account, buy gift certificates via e.g. eBay. Now, you can rent movies in HD for less than it would cost to go to the store and rent a regular DVD in Denmark ($5). And you get most of the titles earlier than you would in Denmark too.

Why they don’t look at your IP address when renting movies shows that this is a loop-hole Apple wants you to have access to. And that the digital world can’t be divided into countries, so they might as well stop trying…

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  1. WIlliam

    Great hack!

    Bought a gift certificate from ebay and am busy downloading a bunch of films. Works like a charm.

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About Lars Ottesen Henriksen

Lars Ottesen Henriksen is a Graduate Engineer in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark. He currently works in Copenhagen, but still lives in Odense which means he spends 4 hours on the train each day. Sometimes this time is used for writing, which is what you see above. > More

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