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Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters (qz.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has patented a system that prohibits smartphone users from taking photos and videos at concerts, movie theaters and other events where people tend to ignore such restrictions. The patent has been award to Apple today and was first spotted by Patently Apple. QZ reports: "It outlines a system which would allow venues to use an infrared emitter to remotely disable the camera function on smartphones. According to the patent, infrared beams could be picked up by the camera, and interpreted by the smartphone as a command to block the user from taking any photos or videos of whatever they're seeing. The patent also outlines ways that infrared blasters could actually improve someone's experience at a venue. For example, the beams could be used to send information to museum-goers by pointing a smartphone camera at a blaster placed next to a piece of art." The report also mentions that the patent could in theory be used to help police limit smartphone filming of acts of brutality, or help a government shut off filming in certain locations. Last week, SlashGear reported that Alicia Keys is the latest musician to ban cellphones at her events.
Now the cops can abuse people and you can't film them doing it!
placed strategically over that sensor.
Thank you very much.
covering/filtering the ir sensor...
n/t
That's a really interesting idea from Apple.
Because last I checked, the iPhone camera since the iPhone 4 has an IR filter on it and can't see IR light. Found this out at the Science Museum when there was a display of the visible spectrum and it told you to take out your phone and look at it via the camera.
Surprise! iPhones can't see the IR lights, but other phone cameras could.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Yaye! police state!
So wait, they just patented the remote control that my TV came with 30 years ago?
It's called the "Some Guys Give You a Wicked Beating" (tm) reactionary system.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Didn't we do this with stoplights at some point?
Didn't they have to pass laws banning normal people from having the devices that changed the lights?
I mean, how hard would it be to modify one of these to send out the camera-disabling signal?
https://www.adafruit.com/produ...
Better patent a camera jamming device.
AppleSafe?
Seriously, how is Apple going to market this to "users". Yes, they can market it to scared governments and terribly bad musicians that don't want to be filmed "singing" for real. But, why would a consumer want something that disables something a consumer wants to do?
I for one welcome the shortsighted, selfish, corporate bullshit that has taken over the value and wonder of technology. It was fun while it lasted.
And for those who will respond with "but people are assholes," THEN KICK THEM OUT. If it says no cell phones at the venue, NO CELL PHONES AT THE VENUE. Kick them out and don't refund their money.
How hard would it be to put on each police car?
I buy it, I own, I do what I want with it unless that breaks a law.
Making a device that lets other, non-governmental people stop me from using it is not a service, it's a theft.
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And to other brands? Because if not its not going to work very well. At least for many years until everyone picks it up and stops using their old phones.
I'd find a way to block that IR frequency from reaching my phone's camera lens. No way am I going to be subject to the whims of anyone trying to block my usage of my own device. Also, no, I don't want to film things in movie theaters, but someday I may want to film something somewhere that somebody doesn't want me to (the police, the government, some business aside a movie theater) and I absolutely do not want the truth to be lost because of some misguided blocking tool.
use a stand alone camera concealed in a phone.
Let me be the first to say, "FUCK YOU!" to any artist that does this.
I'll never attend your concert or buy your music. I'll go out of my way to pirate it if I like it, but you'll never get a fucking dime from me.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Would this work with standalone digital cameras?
How about analog film cameras? I know airport scanners can affect high-ISO film, but I don't if those scanners user IR or some other wavelength.
Its good to know that Apple is spending their R&D effort toward making enhancements that the customers want; as opposed to the features the products wants.
And yes I said exactly what I meant.
They assume I want to buy a crippled phone that can be disabled remotely by someone that isn't me.
This is a "just stick, no carrot" kind of deal. Thanks but no thanks.
On by phone while I'm blasting away with Camera Be Gone!
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters
I'm not sure but this may be the first time I've ever seen Slashdot properly headline a story about patents. Usually the headline would be something like this:
"Apple Patents Keeping People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters" ... which would then result in two hundred comments of people bringing up irrelevant examples of other approaches to dealing with the problem citing 'prior art' along with heaps of moaning about how broadly general the patent they didn't read is.
So was this an accident? I mean, the inflammatory clickbait headline does generate more revenue...
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Use the same tech to rob banks and other places maybe even tolls and red light cams.
I don't have a smartphone, but I do have a digital camera tha does not take external commands sent by infrared red beams.
So I can record a movie without worrying about them turning it off.
E,C,P,
Can we not do anything for ourselves anymore. Must every creation or augmentation be about controlling or "protecting" us or protecting someone else from us?!? Within 30 seconds of reading this, I already had a mental list of a dozen ways this could be abused. All of which out-weight any possible value this could add to anyone. Is their nothing left in our lives that we can exert some modicum of control over? What's next? Must my kitchen utensils be internet enabled so they can verify with faties.gov that what I'm attempting to eat is allowed. Come on people....
I could make a device that discreetly clips onto my jacket or on a cap that sends out the IR signal continuously to stop cameras that are pointed at me.
Or maybe similar devices on my car that sends the signal to stop cameras from recording pictures or video of my car.
I'll become invisible!
So, if you're in the business of pirating movies by filming them at movie theaters, why would you buy an iPhone? Why not simply by an Android or some other phone or camera? What incentive would there be for companies like Samsung or others to license this technology from Apple in the first place?
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
You apple heads paid them royally to control you. I suggest you give them more money so they can take more of your rights away. So funny.
By the time this patent idea is implemented, most of the iphone users will be on an IR-capable device.
Hey why not use this same system to allow the screen and/or sounds to be disabled in movie theaters. How about infrared for police to unlock your phone or decrypt items. Why stop there the device has WiFi and Bluetooth let's use that too. How about I don't buy something designed where someone else can control it with infrared or any other method in contradiction of my wishes.
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How is using IR to do stuff something you can patent? Has nobody tried using IR for doing stuff yet?
To prevent grandmothers from sharing baby pics on their cellphones before the lights go down and the trailers start playing. Very annoying.
to film if these idiots out there who keep yelling "Are you arresting me?" or "I didn't do anything wrong!" on Youtube would just shut their trap and do what the officer asks. If you are nice and cooperate, 99.99999% of the time, the cops will give you a warning or no citation at all and send you on your way... idiots...
You couldn't PAY me enough to be a police officer. I would be fired within a week after stomping someone's guts out for pulling the shit listed above....
MY PHONE should obey MY instructions. If I say take of picture of something it should do so, not ask some third party not me if its alright.
What I do with the phone is my responsibility.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
This totally wont be abused by governments, nope.
For what it's worth, this patent was discussed five years ago on Slashdot. The earliest date for this idea of Apple's appears to be December 2, 2009.
"...patent could in theory be used to help police limit smartphone filming of acts of brutality..."
Are they serious? Sounds like a stupid idea. Letting cops shut down phones so that they can beat people up? I hope they are kidding.
Tape is your friend, just ask Facebook's owner
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Trent Reznor has previously allowed filming and recording at Nine Inch Nails shows.
But Apple recently purchased Trent.
It will be interesting to find out exactly how much he has sold out.
Young people fail to realize a lack of self control for less restrictive measures always results in more control. A lack of respect for others seems to be happening in the world. If people tell you not to do something it means just that, not that your special or you think it's stupid. Then you end up with even more rules like what Alicia Keys is moving to in controlling your actions. Apple's actions is just proof that technology is capable of winning against bad behavior. What you end up in a society that cannot police themselves, is more actions taken as the nanny state is born.
Hackers brick thousands of iPhones with cleverly crafted IR beam to cause iOS to set its date to May 1970. Apple to release firmware update to address issue. Out of warranty users will have to pay $140 AppleCare to get their phone fixed.
For those who actually looked at the patent, it does not use a separate sensor. It looks for the IR signal in the image to being photographed. So go ahead and put black tape over the camera lens. The system still works! Unless you're into photographing the backside of black tape. Very clever, Apple. Hopefully other phone and camera manufacturers won't bother to license it.
Amazing how a company can be so careless. If they decide to put this on their phones it will be the end of iphone. I hate when people film at concerts as they will never watch it again, but some people want to do this. You want to take photos with your friends at a show? Forget that.
I made an infrared blinder for my girlfriends license plate a few years back
Just mounted a bunch of high powered IR LEDs to a license plate frame
No idea if it actually works but she hasn't received any more automated tickets
This was in Brazil
This from the company that gave Dr. Dre $3 billion (US) for a company that makes shitty headphones. Sounds about right.
What is Dr. Dre's degree in anyway? Rappology? Ebonics? Pot smoking? Thuggery?
I've never understood the craze for recording every fucking thing.
You go to a gig to see the band, not to stare at your phone... you can do that at home for free.
How is this not a crime under the same laws that ban radio jamming?
As a teacher, I'd like to see Apple or Google patent a way to use a phone as only a calculator or run in a sandbox -- call it classroom mode. I don't think they'll do it because Apple & Google would end up selling less chromebooks and iPads for COWS(Computer On Wheel) carts to schools. Just my $ 0.02
"There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and
Then a studio employee, a theater employee, or some other way happens.
Then Tim Cook sucked dick 365 more times and swallowed the nut.
Then the next week the same thing happened.
If the merchandise is something you watch you can't stop it from being shared. Apple are all real fart smellers.
Alicia Keys is a whore too.
the removal of the headphone jack.
This is an Apple patented feature so I guess the question is will they charge a licensing fee that other vendors are willing to pay and will other phone maker use a full spectrum camera so it works? If they are unwilling to add a full spectrum camera or pay the licensing fee it will only effect iPhone users which make up about 45% of the market. (If a quick Google search is to be believed.)
Let some one use your computer and they will use it for the day. Give or sell some one a computer and you will be tech s
... is to hire Hell's Angles as your security
Infrared aside, how does this differ from the prior art of the so-called EURion constellation used to prevent color copiers (and Adobe Photoshop) from making copies of banknotes?
And, where can I get a t-shirt with that constellation printed on it? (Although it probably has no effect on surveillance cameras).
Nice to see they're still working on it, but not exactly new...
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Log in or piss off.
And this, kids, is why you should use an open source os. My phone should do what I tell it to, not what other people tell it.
why this isn't too obvious to patent?
- Using a light signal to turn a piece of gear off and on? TV remotes do that.
- We've long had toy cameras that don't work when their exposure meter doesn't like the light. This just targets a specific frequency band.
They need to invent away to stop people from making vertical videos. That would benefit mankind.
Star Trek, there maybe hope.
Like 5 years ild news
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Sales of IR camera filters skyrocket!
You can't get into the venue in the first place without putting a $500 authorization (or "hold") on your credit card. If you're thrown out, they capture the authorization.
What company is going to want to treat their users like this (and pay Apple to license this patent) and what user is going to want to buy a phone with this "feature".
"I'm Tim Cook. Do you want to buy this machine that will hurt you?"
Apple has sold out humanity to lizard like aliens who lack appreciation for wasting power on cloaking fields 24x7 just to avoid being documented by every Dick, Jane, and with a camera phone in their pocket.
IR cut filter over the lens.... BOOM defeated 100%.
Dear apple, you are really losing your edge...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Lots of posts on here about using an IR filter. Wouldn't it be easier to just not buy iphones? After all, the tech is being patented, so it isn't going to be on other devices...
invokes this method as a means to be "off the record" so their bullshit racist/liberal/globalist/conservative/SJW comments don't end up on Youtube.
Thanks Apple. Cool and fair as always. What could possibly go wrong with that?
So they found a solution to a problem, and all it takes is completely trusting the problem-maker's tools to receive and comply with transmissions from another device.
Sure, this will work.
Now go buy the new and improved I-Phone, the "I-Phone 1984+Orwell 2b"
(beatings sold separately, but if you sign up for our handy "lifestyle monitoring service", we will throw them in at a reduced cost! What a deal!)
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
A way to intentionally sabotage their own phones?
Companies patent features that will encourage use of their products. Implementing this would cause users to avoid upgrading their iPhones, or to go Android, so no.
and let your phone be a phone.
Problem solved.
Put black electrical tape over the sensor.
-- Will program for bandwidth
Here is a classic case of Apple selling people a device that is ALLEGED to improve their lives, but which actually is set up to work for Apple or other companies that pay to disable features of your phone for THEIR purposes. Apple should not be permitted to sell such devices, they should only be allowed to rent them, with an agreement the user must sign to acknowledge they are buying a device that will not work in their own best interest. Just as when "selling" music really only means "we'll download when you want to hear until we don't feel like it any more", people need to know they are not truly "buying" something, they are only renting the right to use it while the company that still owns it will let you.
You must be talking about the Stazi, if I am picking up on your inference correctly? The tools of oppression are many and varied, the people you are talking about are too insular and afraid to look at such things. Worse that there is no hope for cowards, that they destroy hope for all.
I can't say if the majority of /.rs believe that, but I do know that there are some people here that are very aware of the things that you speak of. The inference of this technology is very clear - 'we can film you - but you can't film us'. The state wants the power to allow law enforcement to be thugs to keep people in a state of fear as it is a tool of oppression. We were all blind for a long time, however now that we all have cameras, we can all see the activities of the state and confront its representatives with the evidence.
You are right about there being no refuge and the only thing that I have seen in recent time to balance that is that everyone and anyone can be a random witness at any time and the kind of thuggery you are speaking of can be recorded as evidence and used to challenge that states version of events. This kind of important advancement is not merely a 'power to the people' kind of thing, it's an evolution of society as a whole to force the state to live up to the professional standards they profess to be maintaining.
It also show how poisonous the music industry is and that the consequences of their 'Digital Restrictions Management' has had a much broader effect in the general community than any of us could have imagined and as such, inevitable that such technology would be invented. Whilst I have no doubt that there will be some sort of hack to overcome any implementation of it, that means nothing to the general population. The new (superior) model of witnessing state violence is being challenged with the premise of blinding a society who eyes have just been opened. We will have to watch how this development unfolds very carefully indeed.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Apple has patents for all kinds of things, many of them purely defensive, many of them for products and features that never get implemented. I myself remember floating this idea around a dinner table with a few friends at least eight years ago, but our version of it was generalized: Bluetooth beacons that broadcast a "usage policy" around themselves.
Not just useful for concerts. Imagine a beacon in a movie theater that automatically shuts off the screen and ringer of any cellphone inside it. No more dickheads texting their bros in the middle of your $16.00 movie outing. "But oh no, what if there's an emergency?" The phone still vibrates. Just walk outside the doors and it will light up again.
Imagine a beacon in a classroom that shuts off all cellphone usage of any kind while the class is in session. No more concerns about cheating, no more playing Plants Vs Zombies instead of listening to the lecture. You wanna pass a note to a friend? Get a pencil and paper and do it old-skool ... that is, if you still know how to write.
Then you get your two-way beacons. They listen for IDs. Want to take the subway somewhere? Just walk on, and walk off. You don't even need to take anything out of your pocket. The film Minority Report teased a similar thing with retina scanners, but with this system you wouldn't even need to look at anything. No turnstiles. Beacons in restaurant tables. Everyone who sat down pays a fragment of the bill. You only take a phone out if you want to divide it some non-standard way. Beacons in the intersections. Pass through an intersection too fast and your insurance company knows you're a liability before you do.
This is the future of 'convenience'. Hopefully since Apple seems to give a damn about user privacy, they will be very careful in how they choose to apply this patent.
As we all know, the moment they roll out something like this, people will first have an alternative phone or recording device that simply does not have the camera-inhibiting code in it. The next step will be wide-spread jail-breaking of devices that have been "infected" with this stuff.
Sure, the performers want it, the galleries would like it and Law Enforcement (and other clandestine operatives) might feel it necessary for the protection of it's collective members, but the fact remains: People will record stuff even if they're told they can't, and more heavily when they feel they are being repressed in any way. Any attempt to block their perceived "right" to record things will be met with resistance and even violence.
Frankly, any camera-based recording of a concert is not going to have decent enough quality to compete with a properly produced commercial release any way, so it's a fairly moot point.
Besides, if Sci-Fi is to be believed, there will be a back-and-forth of camera-blocking tech, and more sophisticated recording devices, so this is just going to be another curious series of events to keep us all entertained as it all rolls out.
Good luck with putting that hat on the snowball, there Apple. I am sure it will have much greater longevity in hell.
I think a better idea would be a simple fix to stop morons shooting vertical video.
Great, now "artists" can lip-sync and we cant record the evidence :(
Manufacturers are going to pay Apple to make their device more limiting against the consumers wishes?
While Apple has the support of the Gay community, they're slowly eroding your ability and use of your phone in the name of "needing a corporate desire"... yeah
Go in a dark closet with your TV's remote control, or any IR remote for that matter, and your iPhone.
Turn the camera on and view the front end of the remote as you push buttons.
You will see flashes come from the from the front of the remote. In fact, I use this method to see if the batteries are indeed dead or not in my remotes.
iPhones would be more likely to have a UV filter as an IR filter wouldn't really help much for image quality.
A couple years later we'll see new headlines in news, about Apple struggling to sell iphones and being completely unsure why when event centers continuously praise Apple's new technology that other phone makers refuse to license and use in their own products.
Here is prior art from 2008.
Shachar
(I dismiss wifi and bluetooth outright, since users needs it deactivated for battery and security reasons)
Let's imagine the camera is a USB peripheral and thus runs its own CPU and software (firmware).
For the sake of the argument there are enough milliwatts of processing to detect the kill pulse. Maybe it could even be rather simplistic.
You're toast, then.
It's as if someone tricked you with a keyboard whose CPU acts as a keylogger (even a PS/2 keyboard is not immune and has a small computer that runs the leds etc.). Besides obvious security shenanigans, it could figure out you're typing some word, such as "hitler" and then send alt+f4 followed by enter, or keyboard's sleep key, or hotkey to lock workstation etc.
The workaround is to not use that keyboard.
Half way between pure software and such conspiracy theory, the camera plugs right into Apple's SoC which is a collection of CPUs. There's the image processor, and there is now the "motion processor" whose job is to collect sensor data crap when the main CPUs are sleeping. It's marketed as a way for a sleeping phone to listen on the mic.
Not so impossible to have some relatively unknown piece of firmware doing things.
That will take no circumventing at all think about it .
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As soon as this becomes integrated in iPhones, I'm starting a company selling do-not-film-me hats, pins, ski-masks and other accessories for anyone who doesn't want to be filmed. Also for sale, IR filters for iphones - both stick-on and cases with IR filters that block the "do not film" IR signals.
A tech that would prevent people from using cell phones in movie theatres is sorely needed. ... if used at all: Apple has tonnes of patents that they don't use.
But it would not do any good if it would only prevent filming, and knowing Apple: it would be restricted to Apple devices only
It should have been a part of the cell phone radio protocols from the start and mandatory.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
I bet you can make a living disabling it.
Put an IR blocking filter over the camera, problem solved.
Oh, it's very good they patented it, nobody wants this crap on other smartphones.
If concert promoters want to prevent filming or photographing of concerts then they just need to tell people to leave their phones in their cars or at home and confiscate them if they're smuggled in, returning them after the concert.
As I pointed out recently, it's one thing for Alica Keys to be a jerk about this when she's playing a place that seats about 700-800 people and something else to do so in a much bigger venue. Can you imagine confiscating phones in a venue that holds 14,000 or more people? Last year I went to a Rolling Stones concert at a stadium and while I'm too lazy to look up the exact number, I bet that around 50,000 people attended it with me. How can you possibly confiscate so many phones and then get them back to the owners later without mixups?
Maybe artists like Keys need to just decide if they want to go through life viewing their fans as enemies or not and whether doing so is a really good business decision. I can promise you that the Rolling Stones are not concerned with some dude in the upper deck making a low quality video recording of a live concert for his own use when they make huge money off ticket sales and tour merchandise. If others artists choose to view their fans as enemies and thieves because they want to take pictures and record videos, I don't really see a happy outcome from that. But I could be wrong. Prince was about as fan unfriendly as they come and while the days of him regularly playing basketball arenas were over by the time he died, he could still occasionally sell them out.
I can understand the desire to prevent people from filming copyrighted movies (to a degree), but there are things called "fair use", and the most offensive part of all this is the censorship to prevent filming of violence.
How am I going to record EVIDENCE of somebody in my home attacking my wife or child? How am I going to record police that are committing a criminal act?
It's reasons like this that I encourage everybody to find a way to be fully in CONTROL of your own life. NEVER give up control to any other entity. Not to police, or a store, or a court, or a politician, or Insurance company, or public utility, or bank or anything else.
They do have an IR filter on them. It's an easy test because while the rear-facing camera (the "good" one that faces away from the display) has the IR filter, the front facing one doesn't, so you can compare IR brightness captured with the front-facing and rear-facing camera.
For whatever reason, Apple put an IR filter onto the rear-facing camera. I agree, it's pretty dumb and a UV filter would make more sense. Maybe it's also a UV filter, I don't know how you'd test that.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Now the cops can abuse people and you can't film them doing it!
What is insightful about this comment? This was mentioned in the summary, as well as in the report that is being discussed in the article.
FTFS: "The report also mentions that the patent could in theory be used to help police limit smartphone filming of acts of brutality, or help a government shut off filming in certain locations."
Come on mods. Wake up.
So they are sticking a feature on their devices which will be a disservice to their customers?
I suspect that while some customers may be familiar with this being on their phone, most may not realize what it means until it stops them from something they need to document.
I would hate to be on their customer service staff for this. You think customers screaming about how their internet service being down (keeping them from watching their porn--err...documentaries) is bad, wait until their loved one's once in a life time event is not recorded because this stopped them.
So, there will be pirate beacons for sale in the future (or created by DIY geeks) to avoid being photographed or screwing with crowded public events?
Thanks apple I guess I will use Android phones from now on....
Paul E. Bahre
Unless this is a case of filing a patent to stop anyone ever using it, I can see this as something of extreme interest to cops, to prevent citizens being able to film and/or otherwise document their abuses of power and betrayal of the public trust.
Good thing I kept my real, actual camera, the one that Apple can't remotely disable. :-)
can we kickstarter a project to pay every restaurant and fastfood outlet to install one of these just to get rid of all the pictures of people's meals posted everywhere?
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Apple has patented a thing, they haven't made a thing. Let's be mad when they actually make a bad thing based on a patented thing. They hold a lot of patents for things that never see the light of day, and they like to keep their bases covered. It's dubious at best that they'd actually implement this when they're also attempting to make it so nobody except you is allowed to access your data--not even the authorities. It seems like they're willing to die on that hill; I doubt they're willing to die on this one, even if the patent exists.
Oh, wait. Prior art. Apple Corp 2016. Bah!
Why can't they just use passive-SSIDs instead of infrared? A simple idea for a similar situation (where phones needed to be automatically put in silent mode as in a church or a hospital) is detailed below (and at https://gist.github.com/tariqm...) [Starts] People are generally caring. When in a gathering, especially indoor gatherings, there is often a need to put the cellular phones on silent mode (with or without vibration mode on, depending on users preference). Despite the good intentions, people often forget to put their phone sets on mute only to realize when the ringtone suddenly disrupts an otherwise serious, somber or respectful activity (such as a board meeting, a serious discussion, a funeral or a ritual/prayer) and causes a) disruption to the event and embarrasses the phone users. With most of the modern phone features, a solution to this problem is possible which will enable phone users to display their sincerity to the requests of phones silence being made by the hosts to the gatherings by automating this process. Over a period of time, this could become an international norm. The feature is being summarily called 'Honoring Silence Requests' This is a feature that Nokia can be proud of in the area of sensible social responsibility features that come as part and parcel of Nokia phones and reflects the innovative image of Nokia. The phones that will carry this feature will have wifi access. For this feature to be used, the wifi service layer must be activated on the handset. Upon activation of the feature, the phone set will scan available wifi hotspots periodically. The event/conference/meeting hosts will need to add a preset text string at the end of the SSID of their existing wifi router/access point (say, NK-HSRF-999000). So a wifi hotspot which was previously named, let's say, 'BoardRoom Nokia' will now say 'BoardRoom Nokia - NK-HSRF-999000'. When the phone user with HSR feature on enters this area, it will detect the wifi network and the preset trailing text in the SSID. Irrespective of the fact whether the user connects to this SSID or not, the phone will immediately go into silence (with or without vibration) mode. There is no need of any additional hardware to be put in by the hosts or the phone user to implement this feature. All components are already present. The solution is non disruptive to existing functions of the phone sets and the meeting are hosts. The activated HSR feature will only activate the silence mode once it receives a fairly strong (say, 80%) strong wifi signal. This will ensure that silence requests set by wifi hotspots that just happen to be nearby are not considered as valid requests and the feature is only used as intended. [Ends]
It's an essential invention. I, for my own part, must shamefully admit that I always purchase recordings of songs from gigs recorded on iphones instead of buying albums etc. The quality is fucking great, particularly the audio. So I can see why they want to do this. Most of us get our music from gig recordings now and it's fucking scandalous.
People are clearly just going to concerts just so they can film some of it and make millions selling the footage. It's a fucking disgrace.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Rental of cars and hotel rooms often involves such an authorization as a deposit. I'm not aware either of any concerts that require a deposit. The idea in context was supposed to be that a concert promoter attempts to confiscate the phones of those who violate the cell phone policy written on the ticket, and when that is found not to legally fly, the next concert will require such a deposit.
This could really explode into all out nonsense. No taking pics/vids at sporting events. Weddings. Graduations. School plays/concerts. Anywhere that the property owner could restrict your usage to their supplied, paid photographer. Want a picture? You'll have to pay for that.
Probably not the first to point this out but I got tire of scrolling so...
This was first discussed right here on /. in 2006 and was implemented with varying levels of success.
https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
Peace of mind isn't at all superficial to technical work, it's the whole thing.
Most of the time I've recorded something at a concert and uploaded it to Youtube, Google's (over-enthusiastic) algorithms have picked up on some 30 second section of audio.. then the owners have just monetized my video. So they get free promotion AND a revenue stream.
I'd argue recording a public performance like that is far more about preserving the people that attended's memories and the history of the event for the fans (as opposed to say, movie theatres where the source of the experience there is exactly the same as later home releases..)
I've discovered so many bands through finding fan footage of them it's unreal.. they will be stabbing themselves in the back.
Apple should be focused on making loud audio recording less prone to distortion and low light recording better (stuck with tiny lenses, then use the telescope array thing with multiple lenses to improve picture quality etc.)
Couldn't you just put some sort of IR filter film over the camera lense? Something like this already exists for SLR cameras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_cut-off_filter I'm guessing there are different wavelengths of IR that you'd need to block, but it doesn't seem that difficult.