iPhone bans itself
shadowcast
Posts: 2,243
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
shadowcast
Posts: 2,243
Comments
on one hand i like the idea of stopping people from holding up phones during a concert, but at the same time, i'm not a big fan of "the man" trying to control my personal belongings.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
this is ridiculous.
not like i take vid/pics at concerts (really its useless even on a phone as advanced as the iphone) but its a bit much. what if i wanna take a pic of friends in the lobby? so stupid.
Yeah, this is ridiculous. I'm not one to hold up my phone at shows to record songs, but I am definitely one to watch these recordings on youtube for hours on end!
Personally I'm the type of person who gets annoyed when I look up a song on YouTube and have to weed through dozens of crappy cell phone videos to find what I'm looking for. And I hate being at a concert (or any event for that matter) and seeing a sea of cell phone screens in front of me. I know people don't like the idea of their phone being controlled like that, but it is better than getting phones confiscated, or being searched for phones at the gate. If you're not trying to record the show, then this won't have any effect on you. Just because your phone has the ability to record stuff, doesn't mean you have the right to record whatever you want.
ALTHOUGH I do find it annoying when someone who clearly does not know how video recording works, is shooting. I was at a concert, and a gal was right in front of me, up against the barricade. She was recording, holding the phone in the air, right in front of my face and bouncing around...ummm...your video is gonna come out all blurry and shitty, and so will the sound, because every 2 seconds you scream 'wooooo!'
- Christopher McCandless
A camcorder is intended to take video, but they were long banned from concerts by many acts for years, and movie theaters too. Just because you can tape something, doesn't give you the right to. Technically your phone CAN record video of Fort Knox, but that doesn't mean you'll be allowed to. If promoters or bands don't want people bootlegging their shows, then this seems like the least invasive way of doing it. They don't have to confiscate phones, or try to prohibit phones from shows. All that's happening is an infrared signal is prohibiting you from recording what's happening on the stage, and in those instances it is against the rules to record those acts. If you can't follow the rules, don't get mad when they take that choice out of your hands.
so then if you're not supposed to use your cell phone on airplanes, why don't they put cell phone jammers on planes? People still leave their phones on...same thing.
- Christopher McCandless
Not the same thing at all. Because it's a difference in communications (possibly emergency) and in this case, taking crappy video of a concert. Just because they don't jam cell phones on planes doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to do this, even though both deal with phones, they are pretty much unrelated. If they disabled your phone entirely at a concert, I would have a problem, but nobody NEEDS to record a concert on their phone.
why such a hater satan? pretty much everybody else said the same thing I did, but you gotta hate on me? :roll:
- Christopher McCandless
Sammi: Wanna just break up?