My phone was stolen in summer I worry about my movie library. I have heard of people accounts being shut down. Do people use a spare itunes or is the risk low? Would a scammer or thief be interested in someone iTunes content?
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How to protect movie library
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HobeSoundDarryl
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Download your movie files to a Mac or PC, backup to another hard drive or two and store one offsite. Don't trust media important to you to only "the cloud." That would be like sending your money to stranger to manage for you. You are just asking for it.
HDDs are dirt cheap these days. Buy 1 or 2, download all media from iTunes that you've purchased. Then you possess the files and could be ready for ANYTHING to happen to the versions "caretaked" by a for-profit corporation and for-profit owners of said media.
As to "stolen iPhone" here's what to do.
HDDs are dirt cheap these days. Buy 1 or 2, download all media from iTunes that you've purchased. Then you possess the files and could be ready for ANYTHING to happen to the versions "caretaked" by a for-profit corporation and for-profit owners of said media.
As to "stolen iPhone" here's what to do.
Other than being able to watch the content I wouldn’t have thought there’s much else anyone else could do with your library even if they do have access to it.
As long as you’ve taken precautions such as change your password to your Apple ID, also using Two Factor Identification and followed the stolen/lost phone procedure then nothing should happen to your movie library.
It’s tied to your AppleID so just login to your Apple ID on another device and you’ll have access to it.
As long as you’ve taken precautions such as change your password to your Apple ID, also using Two Factor Identification and followed the stolen/lost phone procedure then nothing should happen to your movie library.
It’s tied to your AppleID so just login to your Apple ID on another device and you’ll have access to it.
If your Apple ID is presumably closed by Apple, then it wouldn't be able to connect to their servers for the DRM check on your download media, right? The only real safeguard would be downloading, and stripping the FairPlay DRM out of each file, the status of which currently is what?
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I believe if your device is stolen and you are worried about the thief having access to your ID- as is the worry of OP- Apple now gives you the ability to change your Apple ID and you can always change the password.
Also, you can't download iTunes 4k Dolby vision/atmos movies. You can only stream them. Only the 1080p versions can be downloaded.