How to Neutralize a Digital Camera

Quote: ... Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to stymie unwanted use of video or still cameras.

Movie theaters .. for example


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Well that might work the first time... but if the person was reasonably determined they could always get one of the old fashioned kinds (for next to nix, I imagine) and use that instead. I have to wonder if this would be worth the investment for theater owners, would they really see any benefit?

I guess it would stop most of the pirating of movies via digital camcorders. They'd hafta go back to the old way ... video tape it and then convert it to digital before uploading and that would slow it down a lot.

A bit off topic ... What's the attraction of those camera video rips ahyways. Awful sound, with people coughing, heads moving in front of the scene, etc. etc.

Not that I have ever gotten one, of course .....

I've only seen it on the news (video rips) .. they showed some big release (Zorro, I think) in the theatre .. and the movie was being sold down the street on the table of a street vendor

you'd have to be a real "stick it it to the man" mentallity to see the value