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Just Because You Can
by Andrew McCaskey
Just Because You Can, Does Not Mean You Should
The App for the Android G1 phone is, supposedly, dead simple to operate. You walk into a store, photograph a DVD, and by the time you make it home, the movie is waiting for you in your torrent client. You can with Torrent Droid. You might note that you did not have to slip the stolen DVD into your coat pocket, or face similar embarrassment. In fact, you and your buddies could probably create enough of a diversion that taking the picture with your Android phone might not even be noticed.
That’s the sort of behavior that gives hackers a bad name. Just because you can, does not mean that you should.
Worse than that, it was instigated by an Android-orientated website Androidandme launched ‘Android Bounty’, a new initiative which has led to the creation of the nice little torrent app.
. “Users submit ideas which can be voted up by others who pledge money to the bounty. The first developer who delivers a working application is rewarded with the bounty.â€
The software would use the G1 cellphone’s inbuilt camera to scan a retail DVD UPC barcode, and use the capture to identify the official details of the product from a database. The developer got a grand total of $90 for his trouble, props from his friends and caused hundreds or thousands of honest people untold amounts of grief for years to come.
Way to Go.
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