Listen, concerts and live events are the least of it.<p>What if the cops have this tech installed in their cars and prevent you from filming them in action?
And they're filing a patent?<p>So let me get this straight. Mr Band holds a venue and pays to install Apple's patented film-blocking technology. Then, all of the loyal Apple customers who paid good money for their phones get a feature disabled at the concert. Meanwhile, Joe who bought a cheap Samsung phone can go on recording the event because his phone doesn't have some crappy Apple-patented technology in it.<p>Or is the idea that when I go to a big name concert, they'll confiscate all the phones that aren't made by Apple?<p>Either way, the idea, if reported by Fox correctly, is stupid and does not make any sense.
This is only a patent. This is not a feature of a shipping product. Hopefully it never will be.<p>Apple patents anything and everything and a ton of them are never really used. Optimistically, perhaps they grabbed this idea solely to prevent anyone else from doing it. By having a patent, they can refuse to license the idea to anyone and go after anyone who tries it anyway. You never know.
There was an earlier post about this here... <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660794" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660794</a> with a different initial reporting source. I put a link to the patent that might be concerned in my comment on that thread.