Another downer for Apple I think, the fact they are even interested in and contemplating doing this is bad enough let alone if they ever put it into practice, if you have an Apple device that suddenly tells you off for trying to film or take pictures of something it thinks you shouldn't and then goes so far as to strongarm you away from functions you could have paid as much as £700 then if you're sensible you might think it's high time you started using another type of device. It's anti consumer and what should be the response to that, your device tells you can't film and it's stopping you, do you comply or do you simply move over to something else, something better! There are myriad ways to record, and millions upon millions that wouldn't be disabled even if they were actually stupid enough to bring out a device with recording restrictions to pass. What exactly do you pay a company up to £700 for? To be told what you can and can't do with the functions you paid for, with Apple being as controlling as they are it already goes on, they control what apps IPhone users can even have without jailbreaking and don't even give a Windows Explorer mountable drive when connecting to PC so they make that awkward as well to transfer music/data/pictures whatever freely which Android devices/Windows Phone etc has no problem with. All this letting musicians actually try and stop the recording of gigs, is letting us be controlled and creating a negative hierarchy between the hallowed artists and you as a mere audience member, culture won't be sharable, it'll be proprietary.
The technology to block itself looks to be fairly crude, it will use infrared signals, meaning an infrared filter over the camera lens may well circumvent it, also circumventable by not buying a bloody future IPhone, I prefer that one! Hopefully Samsung, even Sony won't be in a hurry to copycat this sort of idea, as it is pretty disincentivising for anybody to buy any phone with this actually implemented in it, some are warning that it might end up being used by authorities at things like protests to stop filming there, thereby risking this unfriendly technology to become a blunt interest that will damage people power. But of course nobody would be daft enough to try and bring a new IPhone to such an event, as this would become pretty bad reputationally wise, the Xbox One tried to impose a bunch of anti customer restrictions and it didn't get them very far, I can only hope the same bad publicity could happen here.
Philosophically whose device actually is it, Apple & the corporations, or yours.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-filming-gigs
The technology to block itself looks to be fairly crude, it will use infrared signals, meaning an infrared filter over the camera lens may well circumvent it, also circumventable by not buying a bloody future IPhone, I prefer that one! Hopefully Samsung, even Sony won't be in a hurry to copycat this sort of idea, as it is pretty disincentivising for anybody to buy any phone with this actually implemented in it, some are warning that it might end up being used by authorities at things like protests to stop filming there, thereby risking this unfriendly technology to become a blunt interest that will damage people power. But of course nobody would be daft enough to try and bring a new IPhone to such an event, as this would become pretty bad reputationally wise, the Xbox One tried to impose a bunch of anti customer restrictions and it didn't get them very far, I can only hope the same bad publicity could happen here.
Philosophically whose device actually is it, Apple & the corporations, or yours.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-filming-gigs
