Sunday, March 15, 2009

Android app for remote torrenting

For all you pirated material lovers out there, torrenting has gotten even easier. After Androidandme launched it's "Android Bounty" which is a "contest" that gives people incentive to build torrent apps in order to collect bounties from people, Alec Holmes came up with Torrent Droid, an app that scans UPCs with the built-in cam of an Android phone, finds the torrent on a major torrent host site and automatically starts downloading it on your home computer. Pretty impressive eh?
Only downside is that it only works on the Android platform of G1 phones but will hopefully be ported soon enough to Windows Mobile and the Iphone. The app has not yet been released to the public but Alec said that it will only take another month at the most to finalize this project. To get an idea of what this app is all about take a look at the video below.

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