G1 News

In addition to a less volatile name, the Android app previously known as ScanTorrent has now gone on sale on the Android Market, for a cost of $2.99.

It has plenty of functionality, including:

• uTorrent & Vuse support
• Load By URL, Load By File
• KTorrent – PHP and HTML Interfaces
• Sort By Publish Date or By Seeds and Leechers (Default)
• Purchase opportunities upon Barcode Lookup – Long Click result to open Browser.
• Failed Submissions to the Client are retried automatically at application open and exit.
• Choose maximum number of Torrent Search results (25 [Default], 50, 100, 250)

Irrespective of the hazy legality surrounding torrents and their uses, the BarTor app is undeniably an impressive use of the G1’s features and Android’s flexibility.

Source: Android And Me

The latest T-Mobile G1 apps are making headway in terms of nefarious activity, as the latest offerings are an interesting spin on scanning apps like ShopSavvy.

The premise remains the same in that you use the G1’s camera to scan barcodes of CDs, DVDs and the like, and the result is that instead of receiving a comparison of prices, you get a handy torrent link to download it for free!

ScanTorrent is the latest of these, giving users a scary amount of details as soon as a product is scanned, and then sends off the torrent data straight to your home computer. By the time you get back from a hard day of scanning, a PC full of pirate material!

ScanTorrent’s features include:

• Search by scanning barcode
• Search by entering title
• Google Base product lookup
• isoHunt torrent search
• Ability to omit results originating from certain torrent sites.
• Multiple “Client Sites” or uTorrent WebUI configurations.
• Download history
• Search history

Watch it in action!

Wow. Not available in Android Market just yet, but apps like these show how the power of open-source can come back and bite you in the butt.

When the G1 becomes synonymous with portable piracy, maybe Google will not be so disparaging about the App Store’s ‘walled garden’ policies….