Apple Wants To Block You From Using Your iPhone Camera At Live Events/Concerts

&#62; A new Apple patent will put an end to recording events<p>Patent does not put an end to anything. First it must be implemented, second, even if implemented this will only work at these events where technology is actually put to use.<p>And patenting something does not imply company really <i>wants</i> to do that. I guess some stuff got patented exactly just to stop others from doing something.

Bit of a difference between patenting something and it actually turning up in iOS as a "feature"

Consider another use for this idea: it would allow governments to prevent all those photos/videos of rights violations that we've been seeing a lot of lately.

&#62; something that could cost more than just letting people record the event itself and sharing it on their websites.<p>What, $1+ ? Honestly the only people that lose out from you taking a shitty mobile recording of a concert are those who are standing behind you.<p>But yeah, DRM on your camera? Awful precedent and a great reason to root/jailbreak if ever there was one.

Some weeks ago world's famous best living drummer Jack Jack Dejohnette gave a performance in my city which i also attended. Somewhere along the second song, he suddenly stopped and wanted from audience to stop recording/filming by saying: " Please respect the artist and their work".<p>There are some use cases for this, but like in every new feature of technology its open to misuse. My vote is against adding that kind of feature because artists already earning most of their money from concert attendees not losing from non-attendees.<p>Or may be Apple made an app store type control system for Event/concert organizers. For example an organizer can apply for a specific venue/time/place for switching off all ios devices (via icloud) and Apple do the job for them.

How long after release do you think it will take for IR filters for the IPhone will be on sale by 3rd parties?

As a regular concertgoer, I support this 100%. I went to see the show, not the back of 100 phones held aloft.

Actually patent means <i>they control the right to do this</i>.<p>It doesn't mean they're implementing it. Hell, they could be <i>suing people who try to do this</i> and making it less likely to be used by others.<p>It could be just a random defensive patent.

More worrisome, it could be used to block political speech and the recording of embarrassing or retaliatory actions taken by regimes around the world. I really hope Apple is merely filing a defensive patent here.

It won't be long before someone starts selling ghost armour with an IR filter in it. Cover the entire phone and infrared is no longer an issue.

Has anything of value been posted from this spam site with its troll headlines?

So now I'll use their API to create my infrared device, and block all of you from taking photos of the eiffel tour.

No, no, no. I thought we'd killed this at reddit and assumed it wouldn't be reposted here. It's just a patent. This happened last week or earlier and has already been discussed here. :/