Do you want someone to throw a beer at your iPad? Because this is how you get someone to throw a beer at your iPad.

I've been to more shows than I can count in Brooklyn and never in my life have I seen someone with a tablet/iPad.

I'm sure someone has done it somewhere... but it's not a problem that exists at any meaningful scale, as far as I'm aware.

I was referring to the people who criticize the recording people do from their phones.

I saw someone hold up an iPad for an entire Bjork show on the row in front of me, live-streaming the gig to their friends on Facebook. Didn’t totally block my view but was definitely annoying and I thought especially rude as there were notes saying Bjork had specifically requested no cameras be used (it was a gig with just an orchestra so she wanted people to focus on the music). My friend had a word with them at the interval and they did move it out of our line of sight at least, lol

Or not so respectfully. I don't pay €50 to see someone's iPad for 2 hours.

Not being able to afford a private concert doesn’t mean that common decency should go out of the window too though.

It's nice if people are nice, and we should strive to be nice. I am not sure how that translates to a paid camera app that sees your child taking her first steps, runs it through a machine learning model that classifies it as a concert, and then prevents you from taking a video of it. Whatever infinitesimal amounts of concert jackassery it prevents comes with a downside of literally losing a once-in-a-lifetime event. That is the very definition of shitty software, and we should reject it aggressively.

If you want people to not block your view at concerts, demanding that they have a machine learning model control what they can take videos of is not the solution. Hire some guy to say "hey, stop filming on your iPad or you're out."

That'd be better solved by human interaction, not machine learning.