Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 2, 2003 @06:34PM from the also-stealing-ringtones-from-cd-section dept.

ipandithurts writes "According to a report from Tokyo via IOL, Japanese publishers have launched a campaign to stop 'digital shoplifters.' These 'digital shoplifters' are using cellphones to photograph magazine pages in bookstores, rather than buying them. 'Digital shoplifting is becoming a big problem as camera-equipped mobile handsets are spreading fast and their quality is improving greatly,' said Kenji Takahashi, an official at the Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Will entry into a bookstore soon include a 'cell-phone patdown?'"

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information ... by anotherdotter · 2003-07-02 18:37 · Score: 1, Redundant

... wants to be free
in more than one way
Well Doesn't That just Beat All! by codermotor · 2003-07-02 19:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

Why didn't I think of that. Those Japanese always come up with the really cool ideas first! And to think, all this time I've been using the copy machine in the public library.