Is Apple Trying To Stop You From Shooting Shows With Their Devices?
- Posted by Frank Injection on June 16, 2011
We've all been there before. Perhaps you missed out or want to re-live a concert experience, so you head over to Youtube, make yourself comfortable, and inevitably brace yourself for an hour long cringe-a-thon as you try to stomach the endless supply of crappy phone footage in order to find that one decently shot video you can enjoy, only to realize the best video available from that concert ends before the song does.
Several sources are reporting that Apple has filed a patent application to stop you from shooting live events! The application reveals potential plans to build a system that detects iPhone video filming at venues using infra-red sensors which will in turn bounce back and contact the iPhone in your hand to automatically disable it. This move is of course in the interest of live-event companies that feel the concert going experience has been lost to the internet (not to mention a decline in ticket sales). It's also in the interest of the record labels who distribute the music of the performers in these live events, the same labels Apple has very sweet licensing deals with.
This all seems pretty shitty if you ask me. Even though I'm not a fan of crappy phone footage, I'd be lying to say I haven't enjoyed my share of good live video on Youtube from concerts I have no way of attending, especially since the latest iPhones have stellar video and sound capability that only seem to get better with time. It makes me wonder, how far will live-event organizations go to protect their business model? How far will Apple bend to these demands? How long until all other phone companies jump on board? Fan filmed video clips are sometimes the inside loop hole that exists into breaking news and happenings around the world. We all know if Apple decides to put this system in to effect there will be a jailbreaking team hacking away at record speed, but something should be said about the very thought of taking first hand media away from a society that literally thrives upon it. Let's hope Apple has more sense than that. What are your thoughts on the subject?
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Lets not forget these are the same ungrateful greedy crooks that whine and cry over the decline of CD sales while e-music sales increase… they treat us (consumers) like shit and still pretend for us to delve and fight over whatever meagre product they put out in hopes to get our every penny, and lets not even get into the whole artist treatment topic…
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And what happens to those who allow to take video. I've been to my share of concerts that the bands or venue dont care or mind. These are usually smaller bands and clubs but still. Isn't it wrong for apple to assume everyone wants this? How in anyways does this help promote any bands at all? If this does happen I will not be supporting apple anymore and will be more then happy to switch to android.
I have a better solution (a free solution at that) for those who get nailed with this and don't have the cash for a different phone: if it's man made, it can be man broken, in other words, jailbreak or a counter app to disable that app. They can create all the anti-live footage apps they want, hackers will always find a way around it and they will. I say, let them…..cause it's not going to change a damn thing.
i like this idea simply for the fact that when i pay to go to a show i don't want to deal with constantly moving to find a clear view without some a-hole's phone in the way.
This is a good thing.
1. People need to put the phones away and enjoy the concert. ( I always try to bring the mosh pit towards the people with the phones. )
2. Phones that are lit up are very distracting especially if you are vertically challenged and cant see over their arms (throw water at them and see if they phones get wet making them unworkable).
3.When they post the concerts the sound is always distorted which makes it unwatchable anyways.
plenty more reasons that this is good, wont make you read all of them
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I looked into this story more, and that apple want's to block more than just concerts, they are going to have something that can block anything they on the internet or camera,
Maybe cops can use this technology while they are beating a citizen to a bloody pulp.
I dunno 'bout you guys, but watching a show from a phone and in person just aren't the same. Even if I watch a concert from youtube, I'll probably still end up going to the show
Good, maybe people will finally watch a fucking show and stop ruining it for the people behind them. Remember it with your brain you fucking ass hats.
this is ridiculous, watching live shows on youtube in now way takes the place of actually going to a concert. I see it more for people who didn't have money to go or people who already went and want to relive some of the great moments but there's no way that watching a shitty video clip on youtube could compare to the feeling of going to a live concert. This isn't taking money from the companies it's giving more to the fans.
In principle, this is pretty shitty of Apple to think they can just snap their fingers and make everything go their way, but come on, how many of you have gone to a show and some ass holes infront of you start recording that shit on their phones. The quality will be shitty anyways — is something I think to myself. But like I said, this is a pretty shady move… But I will enjoy a show more then ever now.
Save your pennies and go to a show already people. News flash, they are fun (they can be).
People who hold up phones are dicks anyway, Im stood behind you, i wanna see the band and listen to the fecking music not look at your over priced piece of mass market corporate ballbag phone. they should make the app blow the phone up as well.