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Apple patents concert camera blocker
- Thread starter Richland123
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Thank goodness. I always thought it was stupid how people spend entire concerts watching the band through their iPhone's camera. Do they even watch the videos after recording? Given how clippy the audio is and how shaky the video is on all my ad-hoc concert films ends up being, I doubt it.
I think the solution is even simpler, use an Android device.
So they're patenting another means (and presumably, eventually equipment or a license to manufacture it) by which to remotely access their phones operating system and hardware. I'm sure that will never backfire or be used for any unintended purposes.
Why do they allow it now days? Remember when you had to sneak that recorder in and hide the fact that you were recording a performance.
I want the venues to announce, "No video recording of this show" like they use to.
And if people start recording announce, "Put your arms down so others can see behind you, you a**holes".
I want the venues to announce, "No video recording of this show" like they use to.
And if people start recording announce, "Put your arms down so others can see behind you, you a**holes".
This could also be used by any organization that wished to block anyone from recording anything, anywhere.
The imagination reels.
The imagination reels.
Yep. We don't watch or experience anything live anymore. We watch it later on our phones. This is a comparison of the unveiling of the new Popes in 2005 and 2013. Most of the people in 2013 never saw anything live as it happened. They simply looked back at pics and videos of it later. I take a few snapshots at important events but then I try to put my phone away and live in the moment. Maybe if cameras were blocked it would help us go back to doing that again. If nothing else they could briefly turn off the blocker for about a minute at a pre determined point to allow everyone to snap a few pics and then get back to business.
Hopefully they never actually implement this. If they do, every police will have an IR flasher built into their uniform to stop citizens from filming. Hell, I'll carry my own IR flasher just so that strangers can't film me. The entire country of North Korea will have IR flashers at every corner so that nothing can ever be filmed by citizens.
More evidence that you don't actually own your iPhone. You just pay Apple for the right to use it.
It's either that, use an operating system created by the world's largest and most profitable advertising company, or be stuck in the first four years of the 21st century. Poison everywhere, but at least you get to pick your preference!
If it's any consolation, Apple has a long and storied history of patenting things and never implementing them.
I like my iPhone and don't film concerts. I deeply and truly don't care about this news. I suppose I'm a corporate stooge, maaaaaaaan.
As the consumer, you have the ultimate control. Just don't buy an iPhone.
If you choose a smart phone, you have 3 major flavors, each of which controls a significant part of what you can or cannot do with "your" phone.
If you choose not to have a smart phone, you give up the access and capabilities that a smart phone provides.
If you choose not to have a phone, you give up the convenience of having a phone wherever you go.
To me, all of these options are flawed.
It never really bothers me, when performing, if people are taking pictures, video, or audio of our shows. Generally, those photos end up on Facebook, twitter, instagram and what not, and really are free publicity. The content our photograhers/sound guys make are what end up on our offical pages.
When I'm at a venue and the phones come out, it still doesn't really bother me. I can find a place where I can still see and hear just fine. Sometimes, I even have my dSLR with me and am using that for photos.
If people want to live life through a lens, so be it. They're not any less "in the moment" than those who aren't. Photographers have been doing exactly that for ages. And, these people have something personal they can use for later reflection, too. "I saw this, and I took this photo / video. I was there."
If anything, I'm betting movie theatres would buy into this more than concert venues.
When I'm at a venue and the phones come out, it still doesn't really bother me. I can find a place where I can still see and hear just fine. Sometimes, I even have my dSLR with me and am using that for photos.
If people want to live life through a lens, so be it. They're not any less "in the moment" than those who aren't. Photographers have been doing exactly that for ages. And, these people have something personal they can use for later reflection, too. "I saw this, and I took this photo / video. I was there."
If anything, I'm betting movie theatres would buy into this more than concert venues.
