Apple Patents Anti-Piracy Technology

[Olrod]

So... I guess they're just telling everyone to never buy another iPhone ever again, right?

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Yeah. This is to be expected. Apple isn't very good anyway.

PC is stronger and more user friendly than mac.
Sansa is leagues more user friendly than iPod and it lets me get music from multiple computers and transfer music from my Sansa to all of my computers.
Droid isn't that far ahead of iPhone, but it's preferable.

So, this won't effect me. Not only because I don't buy apple products, but because honestly, if I want to film something for high quality viewing I'm not going to bust out a cell phone. I'll pull out my camera that is specifically designed to film things well.

 

[CD-R]

Frankly I don't see why recording artists care if people record a live show. The sound and video quality is going to be crap, and it's just ot going to be the same as actually being at a concert. In fact I remember reading on the Queens of the Stone Age's website that they were going to set a site up for people to trade concert recordings. Not sure if they actually did this or not.

 

[cfehunter]

Apple, patenting user restrictions since 2011.

Slapping your users with an enforced usage restriction with absolutely no benefit to them is not the way to regain that lost market share apple.

Y'know, all they'd have to do is figure out how to shut off the infrared receiver.

Or, you know, just cover the receiver that will block the IR.

Also this ^. It's light, it doesn't pass through opaque objects.
So it's a pointless user restriction that can be bypassed with duct tape.....

 

[Togusa09]

In this day and age of HD media, people are still prepared to watch shaky low quality cams from a handheld device?

And wouldn't the people filming this stuff for distribution be using a device that actually had a half decent camera?

Probably just sony trying to suck up to record labels and movie studios.

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Apple, patenting user restrictions since 2011.

Slapping your users with an enforced usage restriction with absolutely no benefit to them is not the way to regain that lost market share apple.

Y'know, all they'd have to do is figure out how to shut off the infrared receiver.

Or, you know, just cover the receiver that will block the IR.

Also this ^. It's light, it doesn't pass through opaque objects.
So it's a pointless user restriction that can be bypassed with duct tape.....

Had you considered the idea of mounting the ir sensor in with the camera module, or making it part of the camera itself?

 

[Firia]

And this is why people Jail Break their iDevices. I am the consumer, and I will utilize my devices how I want; not how the businesses want me to use it. If I violate a law, that is on me. It is not up the apple to decide what I can and cannot do.

 

[hypermonkey]

Sigh.

Everyone has missed the point of this. Its not about stopping piracy, its about preventing non-apple devices from being allowed into gigs/theaters. See, once some theater adopts this technology only apple devices will be allowed to be used in the theater as they will be the only ones to have the tech. All other devices will either have to be switched off or not brought in.

I don't think this will take off at gigs since most bands don't seem to care about this, but it could work in theaters.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Apple Patents Anti-Piracy Technology

Your iPhone might soon detect whether you are recording that concert and shut itself off.

Piracy is a bad thing. We all know that, right? Right? But I'm also not a big fan of corporations taking away the rights of consumers to use their products in ways the designers might not have intended. Apple is patenting technology which will add the ability for future iterations of the iPhone to automatically detect whether the user is capturing video of a musical performance or a film presentation and disable the camera.

The technology involved is somewhat ingenious. Movie theaters, for example, already use infrared signals broadcasting to individual hearing-aid devices and Apple intends for future iPhones to detect these signals, clueing the device into the fact that its user is watching a film. If you decide to take out your iPhone and perhaps record the X-Men: First Class this weekend, and then possibly upload that file for everyone to see, then you are violating IP law. The proposed technology would prevent you from ever transferring the movie into bits stored on your phone.

The same goes for music concerts, except that performers would have to start blasting infrared signals out into the audience for it to be effective. This I'm actually in favor of, because the amount of schmucks holding up an iPhone at concerts has got to be reduced somehow. What happened to actually enjoying the show? What's with all the freaking pictures, people?

Another, even wierder possibility is for the iPhone to automatically place a watermark over any image taken, instead of disabling photographs altogether. So you might be able to snap a shot at that Lady Gaga show, but the URL to LadyGaga.com will be emblazoned all over it. Ugh.

Now, on the other hand, this tech could be used for good and not for evil, by allowing museums or other landmarks to blast infrared data to the iPhone so that you could get a description of the landscape or historical document you are seeing. Kind of like a digital tour guide without the dirty headset.

Source: Patently Apple [http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/06/apple-working-on-a-sophisticated-infrared-system-for-ios-cameras.html]

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Another reason why I don't have any of the apple products and will never buy any.

 

[teisjm]

As stated many times already, who honestly cares about some shaky bluury phone recording of a live concert, apart rfom the person who filmed it? I'd think hardly anyone, would actually want to spend time watching it.

As for movies... Honestly, if you're gona pirate something, you're not gonna go for the crappy version filmed in a theater with an iphone, better versions will be up anyways.

Is it a specific infrared signal, or just infrared in general? good luck filming your friend flailing around on the Wii, if infrared turns off your phone.

Seriously, shouldn't they be developing awesome stuff instead of spending their time and money on stuff that'll make their product less popular?

 

[Twilight_guy]

Seems like it will have a lot of false enforcements. Lots of things produce inferred rays after-all. You could just be opening and closeing your garage door and BAM Iphone lock-up.

 

[incal11]

Piracy is a bad thing. We all know that, right?

Of course. Bootlegging (or "real" piracy) is wrong. Sharing is right
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710976,00.html

 

[Kair]

I assume this is not the place to dispute the "Piracy is bad" bandwagon.

Though fighting ignorance should be appropriate everywhere.

 

[Vrach]

The same goes for music concerts, except that performers would have to start blasting infrared signals out into the audience for it to be effective. This I'm actually in favor of, because the amount of schmucks holding up an iPhone at concerts has got to be reduced somehow. What happened to actually enjoying the show? What's with all the freaking pictures, people?

Yeah, God forbid you'd want to take a picture of something you've enjoyed so you can share a bit of the experience with friends who weren't there or look back on it 10 years later and say "man, I remember the song that was on when I took that shot". I mean, cameras are for taking shots of yourself in the bathroom mirror and slapping them onto Facebook, not immortalizing moments of your life, didn't you know that by now?

Why are big companies so consistently stupid?

Apple has quite a knack for it. It's one of the reasons I'll likely never ever buy any of their products under penalty of death tbh. Fortunately, the iPhone doesn't have the monopoly on that market anymore.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Soooooo.... I'm out with my friends at a gig in some pub and I whip out my Iphone and start recording my mates having fun, you know, for remembering the next day. Only now the Iphone goes "WUZZAT? LOUD MUSIC AND MOVING PICTURES? Ya stinkin pirate!" *turns off

Yup, I can tell apple have fully grasped practicality. Fuck you jobs.