Over on the BBC ("Tinie Tempah rejects Apple film ban") there's an article about a purported patented technology by Apple that would allow them to theoretically disable a smartphone camera / video app when at a live gig to stop people recording gigs and uploading them to the internet.
Aside from the fact I don't think people who record the gigs would buy a phone with that enabled, it does throw lots of questions and arguments and counter-arguments out. Recording live gigs obviously does have some legality questions attached to it but is a way of connecting with your favourite artist and, like is mentioned in the article, is a good form of publicity. However, that said, the majority of videos uploaded are a mess of bass and badly heard vocals and can't compete with seeing them live or an official release.
There's also the aspect of being stuck behind someone at a gig with their smartphone up recording it. I confess to having done it before and there is an element that you're missing the actual live performance to make a sub-par keepsake.
I definitely don't think Apple some utilise such technology. Firstly it would be impractical for the software to know what can and cannot be filmed and what happens if someone wanted to record a key moment or something in their personal life but the camera felt it was a scene that shouldn't be recorded? That would certainly upset a lot of people.
Perhaps there should be more education that a lot of people would enjoy the live gig more if they just watched it unfold rather than thrusting an iPhone in front of your face to upload a shoddy piece of grainy video with tinny sound to youtube.com.
What do you think?
Saturday 18 June 2011
Apple's new technology to stop people recording live gigs
Posted on 00:55 by Unknown
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