Android Scans DVD Bar Codes, Downloads Movies 181
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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Charging 2.99 (Score:5, Insightful)
to people who don't want to pay for a movie? GLWT.
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:5, Insightful)
If $30 for a movie is unreasonable to you, there are plenty of other ways to see the movie without violating the law. You could go rent it at Blockbuster. Or you could get a Netflix account and get it there. There's no particular reason you need a permanent copy of the movie to call your own, especially if it "probably sucks".
There are a lot of excuses as to why people download movies rather than renting them, but they're all pretty suspect.
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:5, Insightful)
People spend $30 at Starbucks in a week pretty easily, spend probably half an hour or so in line (presuming 10 visits to Starbucks at $3 each visit, 5 minutes in the store). Many still think that $30 (or even $15) for 1.5 to 3 hours of entertainment, no matter how bad it is, is too much.
And Starbucks, IMO, isn't even all that great coffee.
There are a lot of excuses as to why people download movies rather than renting them, but they're all pretty suspect.
IMO, very true. Seems one of the more common ones is "Well if I like it, I'll buy it." Apparently, we only have to pay for what we use if we like it. Try doing that at a restaurant, hehe.
Re:This isn't an iPhone (Score:3, Insightful)
Umm, you would rather enter the barcode manually to search for a movie torrent in an app than to enter the name of the movie in a search? May I ask why? Is there something I am missing?
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:3, Insightful)
If you don't want to pay what it costs, don't watch it. Wait for it to show up on TV for free. But it is not a valid justification for violating the copyright. The price point of when you start to violate copyright ($0.00 for some, more for others) does not make you any different or better.
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:3, Insightful)
The point is spending money on something not necessary (coffee, especially Starbucks branded, is not necessary), not money -> hours necessarily. Point with the Starbucks thing was actually that people are willing to pay more money than its worth (IMO, of course) AND wait in line for X amount of time.
I was not attempting to say that everyone who pirates movies also drinks coffee. However, I'm pretty sure some of the poeple that drink Starbucks coffee, epsecially with all the techies that go there, also pirate movies. And students. And ... etc.
Re:nice (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Song of the South (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't believe in logging in.
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:3, Insightful)
I actually just make it myself. I've even gotten into a small amount of coffee roasting, it's pretty fun and tastes much different when you actually get fresh (i.e., roasted 5 minutes ago) coffee. And real cream.
I go to Starbucks probably once every two months, and most coffee expenditures for me are for beans (either green or roasted, depending on the status of my roaster) and milk and/or cream...
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:3, Insightful)
If you can't afford something, then you don't get it. If you don't think it's a good value, then don't buy it.
You are not owed a movie.
and what movie costs 30 bucks?
Re:nice (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Charging 2.99 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:nice (Score:3, Insightful)