Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing
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#2Now just imagine it being used at political events or to suppress collection of evidence of abuse at demonstrations.
Edit: Probably worth noting that were this to take off it would probably also be embedded in every TV out there.
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#3This is really scary. I'm a total apple fanboi. But no way I'd buy a phone with this baked in.
I don't like to think apple would bow this deeply to the recording industry. Maybe the government. Either way it turns my stomach.
"At block 950, a record function can be disabled. For example, if the encoded data includes a disable command, the device can temporarily disable its record function for a period of time after receiving the command (e.g., 30 seconds or 30 minutes). After the device's record function is disabled, the device may not be able to store images detected by the device. In some embodiments, after the device's record function is disabled, the device may not be able to even display images detected by the device (see, e.g., system 500 shown in FIG. 5). In some embodiments, a device may even delete one or more of the most recently stored images (e.g., the first image detected at block 910) when disabling the device's record function."
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#4Yet another reason why replacing general purpose computers with locked down appliances would be extremely bad for freedom and innovation.
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#5This is a purely defensive act to keep some company from producing a device that blocks Apple devices, but they can still make one for WebOS/Blackberry/Android/WP7.They're doing it to prevent someone else from producing/selling a similar device.
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#6Oh god, I don't like the sound of that. I wonder how Apple's going to spin this to make this sound in any way acceptable, when and if this does get released.
Note, though, that a patent does not mean the feature is coming. Most companies patent everything their R&D departments come up with, and only 10% of those ever make their ways into products.
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#7This is really scary. I'm a total apple fanboi. But no way I'd buy a phone with this baked in. I don't like to think apple would bow this deeply to the recording industry. Maybe the government. Either way it turns my stomach. "At block 950, a record function can be disabled. For example, if the encoded data includes a disable command, the device can temporarily disable its record function for a period of time after r…
In this image there's a toggle for the IR capabilities.
[1] http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c014e88d777...
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#8This gives me a giggle. Around ten years ago, a few friends of mine put together a system for Palms to receive IR annotations next to physical objects, and one of the use cases was for museum guide information.
Never ended up commercializing it.
They were calling it the iPod...
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#9I can see police officers affixing this to their gear....
Re: Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing
#10Oh god, I don't like the sound of that. I wonder how Apple's going to spin this to make this sound in any way acceptable, when and if this does get released. Note, though, that a patent does not mean the feature is coming. Most companies patent everything their R&D departments come up with, and only 10% of those ever make their ways into products.
If they actually did this, they would obviously focus everything on the the value-add cases: the shopping assistant, tour-guide apps, etc. And there's really no indication they would include the 'copy protection' feature even if they implemented other parts of it.
Personally, I can't see anyone bothering with it. You'd set up some proprietary transmitter that would only work on a subset of devices, that is based on a technology that the wider market wouldn't be interested in adopting (why would Nokia or Nikon care to adopt such a standard?) and ultimately it could be defeated by a cheap piece of IR filtering glass or plastic.
What would be the point?