Great moments in movie stealing: Netflix and Apple Rentals hacks
- January 17th, 2008
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Two hacks came to light last night that enable the overly excitable to grab streaming and rented movies for longer than the alloted time period. First, you can add a bit of Greasemonkey code to Mozilla to download streaming video from Netflix.
1. install the Greasemonkey add-on for firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748. restart firefox after installing.
2. unzip the attachment from this post onto your desktop. drag the unzipped .js file into your firefox window. click Install when prompted.
3. go to netflix.com and try out your new and enhanced Watch Instantly section. pretty slick, eh?
Easy enough. It simply adds a download button to Netflix. Not something Netflix probably wanted, but whatevs. Then they’ve discovered that if you set your system date to years in the past you can essentially keep rented movies indefinitely. This might be a good hack if a movie is about to expire but it doesn’t sound so nice in the long term. They keep trying to make a buck and we keep thwarting their evil plans.
Shitburger’s Netflix hack
iTunes rentals and the system date [TUAW]
Seth (Who am I?)
5 months ago
am I the only one who can’t access netflix via mozilla?
John Biggs (Who am I?)
5 months ago
i haven’t tried. anyone else?
Seth (Who am I?)
5 months ago
I ended up getting it to work but the script just causes an unresponsive script error
Brad (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Where is the enhanced “Watch Instantly” section?
drdrew (Who am I?)
5 months ago
wow, “turn back the system date hack”, huh? that’s some good ol’ 96 tomfoolery for ya there…
memeaddict (Who am I?)
5 months ago
so am I the only one unable to find a link to the “attachment” for this blog post? It didn’t show up in my rss reader and it isn’t showing up on this page. how about a good old fashioned URL link to this snazzy .js zip?
Seth (Who am I?)
5 months ago
you need to go to the “shitburger netflix hack” link and then get it from that site. You need to register on the site to access the file.
Ellis (Who am I?)
5 months ago
how do you turn back the system date for itunes?
Walleyweez (Who am I?)
3 months ago
OK, I got as far as download and unzip curl-7.18.0. There is no install file, and it contains a curl.exe that my mac doesn’t know what to do with.
Any help would be appreciated.
hello
2 months ago
dude, you can’t use .exe or windows related applications unless it has the mac emblem on it. You need to run windows, if anything run boot camp on your mac there (hopefully Leopard) then you are set. From there you need to learn some command prompt skills and you are set.
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