Apple Patents Anti-Piracy Technology

[vviki]

Next news will be "Putting orifice detection on touch-sensitive screen to prompt spikes to come out of the phone in order to prevent it for being used as a sexual toy." That on preventing things from being used not as intended by their designer. On the other concert/film recording thing, I'm not sure IRDA will suffice for that kind of communication. Maybe some other wireless signal would be better.

To point out the obvious, this feature will probably easily be removed with some kind of jailbreak or something, also like not using your iPhail for once and an actual camera or indeed another kind of phone.

 

[Le_Lisra]

So... not use an iphone.

How's that gonna help?

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Thank God Apple is the type of company which would patent anything. Now I just have to avoid Apple products for now.

 

[Kargathia]

So if you'd figure out what kind of IR signal you need to broadcast you can either crash everyone's Iphone, or insert watermarks in their photo's?

I see... massive amounts of Iphone photo's taken each day at places like the tower of Pisa... and watermarks of dicks in all of them....

*Trollface*

 

[subtlefuge]

So, how long until you pass by a restaurant and you are interrupted with a commercial for Wendy's? I bet less than a year.

This shit = ridiculous.

 

[meryatathagres]

Who in their right mind would ever use the absolutely awful camera on iCrap to record a bootleg tape? O,o Out of all the phones it has the worst camera, and wouldn't bootleggers use a dedicated camera anyways? I'm just baffled. But well, knowing iCrap, its just the next step to making people pay royalties for any photos they take to apple. Your iWeddingphotos now from iStore, only 1 iBuck each.
Ugh.

 

[meryatathagres]

*snip*

Do you do newspeak too? Orwell is rolling in his grave right now, apologist.

 

[meryatathagres]

I really think there are people that would buy fecal matter in a package if it was marketed as iCrap. Its getting insane really. Ok first of all, being for the most part restricted to the manufacturers own iStore was already bad. But now this. And the gps and traffic monitoring? Soon you iFools will be iZombies of an iApocalypse. >_<
Never have and never will buy Apple. Have used alot, noticed that "user friendliness" is an iMyth. Apple is like that Lacoste shirt. Same shirt from same sweatshop, just without the crocodile logo and without the extra 200% put on the pricetag.

 

[darkcommanderq]

Yes because everyone wants to watch low quality shaky shit. Honestly who cares if people get a low qual version. Its not going to replace the HD / real thing.

id say pirates more than anyone care about quality of the product.

 

[meryatathagres]

Its funny how noone has mentioned the one phonecamera with 12mpix resolution, HD video and carl zeiss optics. Even that just wont do for anyone who is actually making money out of recordings. iPhone with its ridiculously bad camera tied to this patent is rather absurd in my opinion.
MP player from creative
Camera from Sony
Phone from Nokia (yes still)
Computer self built wintell
pad? pen and paper or a book
Apple, red domestic in august, fresh and subsequently eaten

 

[shiajun]

if this technology works by, say, recognizing that there is a drum, two guitars, and a microphone in the view of what's being recorded, what's to stop this tech from preventing you from filming, say, a high school band who would like to encourage their few fans to tape the sessions so their image can spread.

But if you do go to a concert that is sending out the signal, does that mean that you can't take a picture or video of your friend goofing off?Or what if you are witnessing an assault and want to get the scumbag on tape so they get put away? Or anything else in the whole venue for that matter?

C'mon people, the link is right there in the original post - you can click it to find out how this works.

It's encoded - so it's not going to do anything just because there happens to be two guitars in the room. There has to be a specific signal that says "If any iPhones are out there, don't record this", and the phone will ignore every other signal.

Second, it's IR based - that means line-of-sight and depends on which way you're pointing the video camera. Pointing at your friend goofing off? Totally cool! Pointing at a screen playing a movie? Potentially not cool.

Third, there's a bunch of stuff they can transmit - from "Don't record" through to "Photos are fine, just no video" or "Recording is fine, just no livestreaming". They can even transmit information so your iPhone shows augmented reality visuals like lyrics, artist history, or embed a high-def image of the presentation on the screen behind the conference speaker. It's almost certain that "Don't record" signals (i.e. ones that limit functionality) will be accepted automatically while "Augmented reality" signals (i.e. ones that could potentially rickroll your phone) will require users to accept them.

And ALL of this is opt-in BY THE ARTIST - the performer is the one who decides what signal is transmitted or even if they want to bother to enforce the copyright of the things they spent time and effort in creating in the first place.

Yeah....people apparently went all rage and left their reading comprehension somewhere else. It's opt-in. However, it still stands that Apple is in a way giving the artist, whoever this may be, the power to control a device that you bought. Of course, they legally have the right to protect their own music and lyrics. It's just that it seems...I don't know...macabre that your phone could be shut off remotely for suspecting you of your intentions. It's not like me recording 30 seconds of a song to have some memento is going to affect the artist. It's again presuming you are guilty preemptively, and that my friend is why technology like this is not cool. It sanctions paranoia, authority imposed arbitrary decisions and forcefully imposing buyer compliance (if you want a picture you ARE going to have to buy it, forget old traditions). Really not cool.

Let me make an imperfect analogy. It's as if you went to a wedding. The bride and groom rented the place, and a package for an inhouse photographer. There are IR emitters on the walls so that if you want a picture of the event you will have to pay the official photographs of which the organizers get a cut. I don't know, feels something like that could happen.

 

[jeffwilson34]

check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3jMRfuDhY
I have a much longer video and several pictures that I will send someone if the will host them.
I tried several things and this one watch was the only thing I could get the watermark to show up on

 

[Thedayrecker]

Next the technology will used to detect protests, and if it does shut itself off.

Big Brother is watching you /sarcasm