Movie Pirating just got a tad bit easier…for Android users anyway.

Is $20+ too much to spend on a movie?  Do you even find yourself questioning buying that $5 golden oldie that is sitting at the bottom of a Best Buy bargin bin?  If you a movie monster, own a G1, and don’t mind doing a little pirating, things have just turned in your favor.  Introducing BarTor, (formerly ScanTorrent), a torrent app for downloading movies will make the quest for free movies insanely easy.  This revolutionary app allows you to scan a movie barcode which then sends the movie information such as title to your computer (which you’ve previously set up to run uTorrent or Vuze) and by the time you get home you’ll have that movie or movies that you scanned while out and about ready to watch.  Granted this is highly illegal…but insanely cool.  Features of BarTor include:

• Load By URL or Load By File
• KTorrent  PHP and HTML Interfaces
• Support for uTorrent and Vuse
• Sort by By Seeds and Leechers (Default) or by Publish Date
• Ability to choose maximum number of Torrent Search results (25 *Default*, 50, 100, 250)
• Failed Submissions  retried automatically upon application open and exit
• Purchase opportunities with Barcode Lookup/Long Click result to open Browser

Why can’t legitimate comapnies put something together like this?  This is why people pirate.  The record labels and movie corps continue to try and resist the digital trend and are years behind and sadly always will be.  Leave it to the consumer to truly innovate the market while the big corps take all of the credit.  If you have a G1 I suggest you spend the $2.99 on BarTor before it gets taken down.  (We all know the MPAA will be all over this in a heartbeat).
Source: Crunch Gear, Wired