In the information age, forcing copyright policing in the crudest manner is both undesirable and unacceptable. Apple’s patent to disable video recording in places like concerts and live entertainment reeks of extreme level of intrusion in end user’s usage freedom.
Funny how those with power to dictate terms take measures to make extreme things possible, like publishing user’s private data publicly (Facebook). But trying to restrict the content one wants to keep and capture is deemed as an offense to be tackled desperately at every level possible.
This “feature” is bound to create so much discontent that overriding Apple’s restrictions via any necessary means will become commonplace. The people willing to go the “wrong way” might just increase. There have to be better and more concrete ways to avoid video capture at such events than installing a big brother on your phones.
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