Imagine, a couple of years from now.
Apple’s patent to block recordings is reality and in operation. At some event such as Pukkelpop. During a crisis.
No one, as the infrared is beaming light into every smartphone, telling it to shut down the camera, is able to record or take pictures of what’s going on. Countless of proof is lost (or never made). Nothing on Twitpic, nothing on Youtube. No proof of how severe the storm/crisis actually was. No usable data for journalists and researchers to reuse afterwards. Unable to see whether the roof/screen/pillar/sound system/… fell before or after the whole tent actually collapsed…
Yes, think about that… “Free” world.
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