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Torrent Droid, torrents on Android.

Posted by matthew bennett | Posted in Android, Blogosphere, G1, HTC, News, Nokia, T-Mobile, torrent | Posted on 11-03-2009

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torrentdroidFurther bridging the gap between the Real-World and Internet-Land, this Android app will help you download information of questionable legallity easily.  Named Torrent Droid, this app can scan a barcode on “some media”, like a book, cd or a DVD, and identifies the content.  Then it searchs The Priate Bay, and automatically locates a torrent file, so you can download the content for free.  Torrent Droid can also add the torrent file to your uTorrent list, so it will download automagically.

This reminds me of the Pirates of Amazon plugin for Firefox, which replaced the Buy Now buttons with a link to a torrent file from The Pirate Bay.  Ahh, to be young and broke again.  Don’t pirate stuff, ok?

Torrent Freak,via Hack-a Day

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