Unlimited "you don't actually own your iPhone" thread

[Cain]

Cuz I seem to see one of these kind of stories every week:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2004233/Apple-files-patent-block-iPhone-users-filming-live-events-smartphone.html#

The days of filming a live concert or sporting event on your iPhone may soon be a distant memory.

Apple is developing software that will sense when a smartphone user is trying to record a live event, and then switch off the device's camera.

Anybody holding up their iPhone will find it triggers infra-red sensors installed at the venue.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Cuz I seem to see one of these kind of stories every week:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2004233/Apple-files-patent-block-iPhone-users-filming-live-events-smartphone.html#

The days of filming a live concert or sporting event on your iPhone may soon be a distant memory.

Apple is developing software that will sense when a smartphone user is trying to record a live event, and then switch off the device's camera.

Anybody holding up their iPhone will find it triggers infra-red sensors installed at the venue.

Wouldn't anything you record be a live event? 

Can they really do this?  Do they actually have that kind of technology?

[Cramulus]

  I love how they are ultimately decreasing their marketability by pandering to the insane demands of copyright holders

GO FOR IT APPLE

[Cain]

The best part will be when the police start setting up these infra-red sensors to stop you from videoing them beating the shit out of people.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Personally I don't get the point of preventing people from recording live events.

As a musician, I'm more than happy if someone records us live on their camera, unless of course we fuck something up, and then, well damnit.

As someone who likes to listen to music, the sound quality and the angles of what people take on their phones and upload to youtube is always way below any official footage that you could just as easily find on youtube.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The best part will be when the police start setting up these infra-red sensors to stop you from videoing them beating the shit out of people.

[bds]

They only filed a patent on this, though - I expect they file hundreds like these every year, just this one got somehow abused and went from the "hey look at this" post on tech blogs to "HOLY SHIT WTF" on various news media sites

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Personally I don't get the point of preventing people from recording live events.

As a musician, I'm more than happy if someone records us live on their camera, unless of course we fuck something up, and then, well damnit.

As someone who likes to listen to music, the sound quality and the angles of what people take on their phones and upload to youtube is always way below any official footage that you could just as easily find on youtube.

Just think about how many overly blurred photos of distant colorful blobs and painfully bad videos which the world will be spared.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Personally I don't get the point of preventing people from recording live events.

As a musician, I'm more than happy if someone records us live on their camera, unless of course we fuck something up, and then, well damnit.

As someone who likes to listen to music, the sound quality and the angles of what people take on their phones and upload to youtube is always way below any official footage that you could just as easily find on youtube.

Just think about how many overly blurred photos of distant colorful blobs and painfully bad videos which the world will be spared.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Personally I don't get the point of preventing people from recording live events.

As a musician, I'm more than happy if someone records us live on their camera, unless of course we fuck something up, and then, well damnit.

As someone who likes to listen to music, the sound quality and the angles of what people take on their phones and upload to youtube is always way below any official footage that you could just as easily find on youtube.

Just think about how many overly blurred photos of distant colorful blobs and painfully bad videos which the world will be spared.

It would stop the youtube uploads that make me want to kill someone.

I still do not see how it could differentiate between a live concert or a live street fight/race/stupidity stunt etc.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Personally I don't get the point of preventing people from recording live events.

As a musician, I'm more than happy if someone records us live on their camera, unless of course we fuck something up, and then, well damnit.

As someone who likes to listen to music, the sound quality and the angles of what people take on their phones and upload to youtube is always way below any official footage that you could just as easily find on youtube.

Just think about how many overly blurred photos of distant colorful blobs and painfully bad videos which the world will be spared.

It would stop the youtube uploads that make me want to kill someone.

I still do not see how it could differentiate between a live concert or a live street fight/race/stupidity stunt etc.

They drive me nuts. Especially where concerts tend to get pretty loud, you gets this horrible crunching cacophony where you can barely discern what the song even is without looking at the title, and barely recognizable figures unless you look again at the title to see what band it is. And you always end up hearing that loud and off key asshole singing along who may or may not be me.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Personally I don't get the point of preventing people from recording live events.

As a musician, I'm more than happy if someone records us live on their camera, unless of course we fuck something up, and then, well damnit.

As someone who likes to listen to music, the sound quality and the angles of what people take on their phones and upload to youtube is always way below any official footage that you could just as easily find on youtube.

Just think about how many overly blurred photos of distant colorful blobs and painfully bad videos which the world will be spared.

It would stop the youtube uploads that make me want to kill someone.

I still do not see how it could differentiate between a live concert or a live street fight/race/stupidity stunt etc.

They drive me nuts. Especially where concerts tend to get pretty loud, you gets this horrible crunching cacophony where you can barely discern what the song even is without looking at the title, and barely recognizable figures unless you look again at the title to see what band it is. And you always end up hearing that loud and off key asshole singing along who may or may not be me.

My personal favorite reason to hate concert uploads!!!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The best part will be when the police start setting up these infra-red sensors to stop you from videoing them beating the shit out of people.

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of.

[Doktor Howl]

The best part will be when the police start setting up these infra-red sensors to stop you from videoing them beating the shit out of people.

Yep.

Just another reason to never buy an Apple product.

[Cramulus]

I posted this on FB and an iphone fanboy said

That's the most misleading news item ever. They filed a patent for a system that can use IR lights to activate phone features. Someone speculated that it could be used to disable cameras at concerts and everyone ran with it without checking the facts.