Intellectual Property Law

How-to: Get Free BitTorrent Vids on Android Phone

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

If only scoring beer was this easy.

An Android app developer claims he is creating the Holy Grail of scoring free vids on the Pirate Bay, Mininova and other BitTorrent search engines.

Alex Holmes says users can be out shopping, for example, at the local Wal-Mart buying diapers for little Johnnie. Johnnie's dad can hit Wal-Mart's video section, use the G1 Android phone camera to take a pic of a DVD barcode and viola: Search results of where the flick could be pilfered for free would immediately be sent to Johnnie's dad, who could then download the vid to the webUI of uTorrent while he's combing the aisles carrying a crying baby searching for the right pacifier and diaper rash treatment.

Johnnie's dad arrives home. The free flick of his choice is ready to view.

The app, Holmes told TorrentFreak, "is a work in progress" and is expected to be available on Holmes' website, Zerofate, in about a month.

Holmes began developing the App after website Androidandme challenged developers to create applications for Google's Android.

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• Google's Latest Efforts Test the Open Waters
• By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age

Full post as published by Threat Level on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).