Posted on 06/16/2011 5:17:53 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
IPHONE users may soon be stopped from filming at concerts — as a result of new Apple technology.
The leading computer company plans to build a system that will sense when people are trying to video live events — and turn off their cameras.
A patent application filed by Apple revealed how the technology would work.
If an iPhone were held up and used to film during a concert infra-red sensors would detect it.
These sensors would then contact the iPhone and automatically disable its camera function.
People would still be able to send text messages and make calls.
The new technology is seen as an attempt to protect the interests of event organisers and broadcasters who have exclusive rights to concerts.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
With all this coming supervisory technology, I am going to have to maintain some 2010-era equipment far longer than I ordinarily would. I don’t want a black box on my car. I don’t want to be tracked by GPS wherever I go. I don’t want the police to have a kill switch on my video camera.
I’m remembering all of those “fine officers of the law” who think that filming them is a violation of their privacy.
How long before Apple decides to have your iPhone contact authorities when it suspects you are committing a crime?
If you're not filming a "live" event, what would you be filming?
...and this is where Apple starts to lose its market dominance-——again.
Awesome! Way to go apple! How about rallies and protests? How does it tell them apart?
I guess you’d be left filming funerals and Grateful Dead concerts.
Who cares? I mean really - just don't buy one. There are plenty of other perfectly good smart phones out there that don't "phone home" on their own. To me, this is just Apple once again defining their market share downwards in the pursuit of ideological purity.
One of several reason why I'm not an Apple stockholder. They give away too much business.
“If you’re not filming a “live” event, what would you be filming?”
Zombies?
Who gives a rats ass if some bozo ‘ films’ a gig with a crummy iPhone? The pic and sound quality is so poor how can it be a threat to the promoters or artists? If anything its free advertisement. Sometimes technology makes people take leave of their common sense...
Apple users will gladly bend over and submit to the wishes of their dictator Steve Jobs...
Right, because grainy, shaky iPhone footage of a 3-min song competes directly with HD video of an entire concert? They are fooling themselves.
On the other hand, it’s typical of the modern era where the ‘rights’ of a sleazy concert promoter cause Apple to do backflips while they bow to Congressional pressure to curtail users’ 1st Amendment rights via apps that allow the sharing of police checkpoint locations.
The Computer/Goverment Industrial Complex want to turn off YOUR computer phone?
Cloud computing such a great idea?
Interesting that in a time that memory is so cheap that the cloud sells.
Who gives a rats ass if some bozo ‘ films’ a gig with a crummy iPhone? The pic and sound quality is so poor how can it be a threat to the promoters or artists? If anything its free advertisement. Sometimes technology makes people take leave of their common sense...
This is about creeping control, not about copyright issues.
PS - these ‘artists’ (often using autotune or even lip-syncing during concerts) have notoriously thin skins. Fans are happy to upload and share footage of a Beyonce tripping on stage and of course a Beyonce doesn’t like that.
WHY do I get the funny feeling that this is to prevent certain elected folks embarrassing Town Hall Meetings from getting into You Tube?
I agree completely!
I am a firm believer that if Apple wants to shoot itself in its foot, it should be allowed to do so.
Misleading headline — just because a company files for a patent, it does not mean that they plan on implementing it.
Not to say I wouldn’t put it past Apple to do so, but the mere existence of the patent application doesn’t mean all that much.
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