Google announced today that they will start offering movie rentals at their popular video portal Youtube. The five initial movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival will be available from Friday on for US Youtube users with additional movies from partners being offered in the following weeks. The limitations of the movie rentals [...]

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So the guys at Gizmodo started playing around with the video rentals at iTunes trying to figure out a way how they could prolong the time – 30 days to start watching it, 24 hours to watch after starting it – that they were allowed to watch the movie that they rented. Some tests seemed to reveal that one of the oldest hacks of old time would work, that they could increase the time almost indefinitely by changing their computer’s system date to the future and back to the present.

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