Apple Plans To Put A Stop To iPhone Concert Recording
Sometimes technology advances quicker than the market can react. New innovations in media and communication have seen a lot of progress in recent years and the iPhone is most defiantly one of them. There’s bad news for iPhone toting concertgoers. Apple may soon be putting a stop to recording at concerts. We’ve all seen how people pack their phones and take pictures and videos that find their way to YouTube and Facebook but Apple is planning to implement new technology to put a stop to it.
Apple’s planning to build in a feature into the iPhone’s system that will sense, automatically, when people are trying to take videos at live events. If implemented, the phone will automatically turn the build-in camera off and put a stop to all unauthorized concert recordings. The phone wouldn’t turn completely off. People would still be able to send text messages and make phone calls but they just wouldn’t be able to use the video feature.
This news came from the filing a patent on the part of Apple. It’s impressive technology and, even though people are in an uproar, it’s pretty impressive technology. It works through sensors. If an iPhone is held up and used during a concert, an infrared sensor detects it and then, automatically, disables the camera function. This new technology was created to protect broadcasters and event organizers who possess exclusive rights to concert footage. This is good news for people in the industry who have long been frustrated with smart phone users constantly recording footage and posting it, for free, on the web.
Apple filed for the patent about eighteen months ago and will likely prove to be a big bargaining chip for the company when it negotiates deals with record labels for selling content through iTunes. This feature is likely to receive a lot of blowback from users who want to take photos. It will be interesting to see if the rest of the smart phone community takes similar steps to safeguard the music business over the freedoms of its customers.
It’s unclear how this will affect smaller venues and independent artists from taking videos themselves. Those people who have rights to their content might have to find another way to record their shows. This is one of the first steps Apple has taken that would result in a restriction of use but it’s not likely to affect the company’s powerhouse market shares and popularity.
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