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Android Scans DVD Bar Codes, Downloads Movies
cars writes "Remember how you can scan any bar code with an android phone and it will tell you where to find that product for cheaper? A new Android application called BarTor (formerly ScanTorrent) can scan any DVD bar code and then signals either uTorrent or Vuze on your PC to download the movie from BitTorrent. How long do you think this will last?" Other features include purchase opportunities on barcode lookup, Google base product lookup, and site-level filtering.
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to people who don't want to pay for a movie? GLWT.
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For a moment, I thought that they were saying that Lt. Cmdr. Data was now using BitTorrent.
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You can install apps that aren't blessed by the Hand of Steve. This app might not stay on the store, but it sure won't go away...now where is my Windows Mobile version?
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Sounds like a nefarious MPAA plot. They've got your intent (barcode) and identity (paypal/credit card).
If the MPAA didn't hatch this idea, I bet they wish they would have.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
"How long do you think this will last?"
If there is a market and people are willing (think iTunesVideo) then I'm sure it won't take long for the MPAA to start suing.
You know, in the old days we had to go to the theater (oops, sorry, that's theatre for our friends across the pond) and sit with 200 of our closest friends to watch a movie. And we liked it that way.
Damned kids and your fancy technogoogle phones.
What's next? Video texting?
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Will it find a version with quality appropriate to playback on the device? Ripping a DVD and transcoding it to play back on a mobile device is often more effort than I can be bothered with. Being able to just wave the device at one of my DVDs and have it automatically grab an appropriate copy would be great.
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now all they need to do is port TPB vpn service to it and voila !
What's next? Video texting?
Been there. Done that, old man. We're now onto Googlefacevidtweettubing.
Everybody's doing it.
The barcode recognition is the biggest feature IMHO. Imagine the apps you could build with a good barcode recognition.
Scan a list of 'to buy'. Sort of a "Wedding registry" but how many times are you out and you see something that looks like a decent product but you want to check reviews? Scan a barcode, dump it into a Google docs document.
The biggest IMHO is "crowd sourcing" grocery lists. So you go to the store and scan in what you're going to buy, punch in the price and it gets added to a database. Use the GPS to determine the store.
Get a few hundred people checking prices and you'll have a fairly accurate database of prices. Then you go home, made a grocery list and have it calculate where the cheapest place to shop is.
The barcode recognition is the biggest feature IMHO. Imagine the apps you could build with a good barcode recognition.
Scan a list of 'to buy'. Sort of a "Wedding registry" but how many times are you out and you see something that looks like a decent product but you want to check reviews? Scan a barcode, dump it into a Google docs document.
The biggest IMHO is "crowd sourcing" grocery lists. So you go to the store and scan in what you're going to buy, punch in the price and it gets added to a database. Use the GPS to determine the store.
What you describe already exists for Android since pretty much day one: http://www.biggu.com/
the CueCat people are howling.
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BitTorrent is not a place. It's a protocol. Correct usage would be "download the movie via BitTorrent".
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
The biggest IMHO is "crowd sourcing" grocery lists. So you go to the store and scan in what you're going to buy, punch in the price and it gets added to a database. Use the GPS to determine the store.
Get a few hundred people checking prices and you'll have a fairly accurate database of prices. Then you go home, made a grocery list and have it calculate where the cheapest place to shop is.
The problem with this is this pushes grocery stores to complete solely on price. Selection no longer matters, customer service doesn't matter, just price.
Personally, I see enough of that already. The Internet certainly has the power to transform all purchases into a simple decision based on price while taking all other factors out of it. Then, we will all be shopping at WalMart. Forget about anybody else, they can't compete as effectively on price.
Is that what you really want? Because that is exactly what we are in danger of getting.
Short answer: Don't watch it
It is the property of whoever owns the copy right. IF they choose not to share it, you don't get to. It is theirs, not yours. You do not have a right to something they created, and/or purchased the rights to.
Bad analogy time:
I do not have a "right" to watch your home movies. Just because you refuse to let me, does not give me the right to break into your house and watch them.
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the solution isn't to limit technology, but to encourage non-profit cooperative... at a non-profit grocer all prices can stay rock bottom for even the highest quality goods.
plus, with the national co-op networks in place co-op grocers, and therefor the buyers themselves, can work together to encourage the manufacturers to make better products that cost less than, rather than more than, the crappier products.
[i call this the wall-mart strategy, since they're notorious for successfully setting their own buying prices and demanding changes in manufacturing practices.]
a good example of this could be: a sugarless wholegrain cereal at a co-op could cost less than a high sugar content bleached and then re-enriched cereal, or a sugarless organic peanut butter--which is naturally sweet--could be cheaper than sugared inorganic name brand crap.
this would do away with the need to waste a customers time scanning the products at every grocery store to create a customer friendly database of product pricing schemes across a city/nation.
please take note that such a system could be modified by retail agents.
also note the fact that: in most areas the majority of the grocers are owned by the same organization. in seattle it's really just kroger vs wal-mart, and whole foods vs co-ops. all of kroger's stores are strategically designed to appear in business against each other in order to influence the sales of certain items. [i am the horses mouth]
DON'T CAPITALIZE! CO-OPERATE! AND FREE EVERYTHING!
How can you say that? If I scan something and I find out no store in a 15-mile radius has that product, won't I buy it immediately?
Seems to me this barcode scanning phenomenon would be better for consumers all around. Stores will have to compete not just on price, but on whatever consumers demand. If you want selection, then choose on selection.
I hear they're naming the next model DATA and if it is a success, another one named B4.
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>Price is what the consumer demands. Only the stupid ones. The rest of us demand value for money, quality, reliability. Unfortunately 'the stupid ones' constitute a very large proportion of the general public, which is why we have to put up with so much shit coming out of Chinese factories. We ask for cheap shit, and they can make it. Rant over :o)
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And because not everybody has the same values, the combined data isn't meaningful beyond a way to measure the lowest common denominator.
The brutal oversimplification of 'econ 101' when applied to real world situations does not generally lead to good outcomes. People are just too complex.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?