New iPod Nano Leads To Arrest

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]The new video camera-equipped iPod nano only just gone on sale but a Kobe man has already been arrested for using it to secretly film an 18 year old schoolgirl in a bookshop. He hid the nano in his shoe and, with the lens pointing upwards, shuffled along to get a shot up her skirt. The short news report (Japanese) doesn't say who spotted him but bookshops have become a popular hangout for pervy photographers because their targets are often standing still and otherwise engrossed. Consequently, shop staff are on the look out for suspicious behaviour and girls have also become more alert to the threat. Interestingly, the Life Time Fitness group in the US has already banned the new nano because of fears that it might be used for voyeuristic photography.

[BO-SENSEI]

They should have seen this coming, giving a country like Japan a small, easily concealable video camera is like giving a 5 year old fireworks. Just irresponsible. It should have become clear by now that unreasonable proportion of Japanese men can't control themselves from doing perverted and voyeristic acts and that putting out such devices in Japan is like add fuel to the fire. There is a reason why cellphones make a noise when used as a camera.

[Samurai_Jerk]

They should have seen this coming, giving a country like Japan a small, easily concealable video camera is like giving a 5 year old fireworks. Just irresponsible. It should have become clear by now that unreasonable proportion of Japanese men can't control themselves from doing perverted and voyeristic acts and that putting out such devices in Japan is like add fuel to the fire. There is a reason why cellphones make a noise when used as a camera.

So what do you suggest? A moratorium on the development of camera technology?

[BO-SENSEI]

I am not sure, maybe have size restrictions on video cameras, make them come with bright flashing lights. The problem is that if one were determined to film an upskirt video, nothing is probably going to stop him, just don't make it as easy as sticking an ipod nano into your shoe laces. What I would do ensure that things like this don't happen ever again is give them massive fines that would make the risk vs. reward unappealing.

[Greji]

I am not sure, maybe have size restrictions on video cameras, make them come with bright flashing lights. The problem is that if one were determined to film an upskirt video, nothing is probably going to stop him, just don't make it as easy as sticking an ipod nano into your shoe laces. What I would do ensure that things like this don't happen ever again is give them massive fines that would make the risk vs. reward unappealing.

That is going to piss off iraira big time. He's spent a lot of time and money getting all those lenses embedded in his PF Flyers...

[osopolar]

I'm still not sure what the 'average persons' needs for having a camera on an Ipod Nano are.. (at least here in Japan, where every citizen already has a camera on their cellphone/and photographers with their cameras) but seriously, did Apple totally overlook the whole perv/peeper factor?

[Ketou]

I'm still not sure what the 'average persons' needs for having a camera on an Ipod Nano are.. (at least here in Japan, where every citizen already has a camera on their cellphone/and photographers with their cameras) but seriously, did Apple totally overlook the whole perv/peeper factor?

It could be overlooked as it appeals to a certain demographic.

[GomiGirl]

I am not sure, maybe have size restrictions on video cameras, make them come with bright flashing lights. The problem is that if one were determined to film an upskirt video, nothing is probably going to stop him, just don't make it as easy as sticking an ipod nano into your shoe laces. What I would do ensure that things like this don't happen ever again is give them massive fines that would make the risk vs. reward unappealing.

I think there needs to be more of a public/media campaign showing how dudes who do this are such dweebs and losers (not pervs). This type of psychological approach works.

For example, people who used to drink up and then jump behind the wheel to drive were not considered to be the social pariahs that they are now due to the awareness campaigns (eg "if you drink and drive then you are just a bloody idiot") If somebody mentions now how they drove home after getting completely hammered, the negative peer pressure is huge - it is not considered smart or clever.

Sure there are still too many drunk driver accidents but it is far less than it used to be mainly due to this negative peer pressure.

So for pervs who probably wear the perv title as a badge of honour, making it seem like a loser thing to do, would discourage the all but hardcore creeps. Not sure on the most effective way to do it, but it is just a thought.

[Behan]

Think they will put camera sound effects that keitai have here? I bet those were put in to prevent pervs from taking upskirt shots on trains, etc.

[MrUltimateGaijin]

Think they will put camera sound effects that keitai have here? I bet those were put in to prevent pervs from taking upskirt shots on trains, etc.

but that won't help with the the movie function....

[Iraira]

That is going to piss off iraira big time. He's spent a lot of time and money getting all those lenses embedded in his PF Flyers...

Just got released on a technicality! As I have nothing else to say on this issue, lawyer's advice, here's a nice hoodie I found in the BOOK-OFF! MOTHERFUCKER! in Shibuya, yesterday.

[Coligny]

Victimless crime... call me when IPods get involved in friendly fires...

Also this new habit of having phones the go burlibidibip when you take picture in dowright stupid when you try to take "natural" pets pictures. Cats react strongly and start taking pose, putting makeup and checking their hairdo...

No wonder there's so many lolcats picts on them intarweb...

[Behan]

but that won't help with the the movie function....

I'm getting one, then.

[NeoTechni]

Victimless crime...

Except for, you know, the VICTIM who had a picture taken up her skirt.

Are you absolutely retarded or joking?

You may not care if some asshole takes pictures of you in your underwear and jerks off to it (and probably posting it online for others to do the same), but I'm sure everyone with an ounce of dignity (ie: most women) do.

And don't be stupid and say she shouldn't have dressed that way. Since schoolgirls don't have a choice. Nor should everyone's wardrobe revolve around assholes like you.

I registered to reply to your completely moronic comment

[Greji]

Are you absolutely retarded or joking?

Yes on both counts (Me too).....
BTW if you're talking about J-school girls, you're wrong. All private schools have a mandatory length to their school uniform skirts. Only the ugly ones observe it, the rest whack them off somewhere around the thighs.....

[Mike Oxlong]

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/satirical-iphone-apps-not-cool-upskirt-iphone-apps-cool/

[Bucky]

Overheating:flame:

Tokyo: Apple Inc. is putting prominent notices on its website to warn about iPod Nano music players in Japan that may overheat.

Sixty one cases of overheating have been reported with the battery in the first-generation iPod Nano machines, sold in 2005 and 2006, according to the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Some machines got warped from the heat, causing minor burns when people touched them, but no serious injuries or property damage have been reported, it said.

[Coligny]

Except for, you know, the VICTIM who had a picture taken up her skirt.

Are you absolutely retarded or joking?

You may not care if some asshole takes pictures of you in your underwear and jerks off to it (and probably posting it online for others to do the same), but I'm sure everyone with an ounce of dignity (ie: most women) do.

And don't be stupid and say she shouldn't have dressed that way. Since schoolgirls don't have a choice. Nor should everyone's wardrobe revolve around assholes like you.

I registered to reply to your completely moronic comment

Damn so late to the game for a reply...

Let me call you back -retard- upskirt picture in 99% of the cases don't allow for identification of the target. If you are wearing clothes that should only be looked in the same plan as you are and are going to public places, YOU are the problem, never went to the applestore and its glass stairs or in buildings
with hard chicken wires flooring ? What about people with deep cleavage ? Should we arrest everybody handling a camera from the 2 nd floor of a building ?

You are displaying yourselves in clothes in public places where it's allowed to take pictures. Both act are legal... Even if we are on the edge of what can be considered as freedom or good taste, if i can see something in a public place, i can take picture of it. End of story. The law used against upskirt picture in japan "disturbance of public order" is excessively dangerous and seems to have been designed only to be abused...

As for the schoolgirls, if they are obliged to wear skirts outside of their schools, then any accident resulting from this duty is the responsabilty of the people who made the rule. Also here, end of the story.

If we let idiot like you takeover, life will be even more a living hell. And i can be arrested on the spot. Why ? I have a drive recorder on my windshield. At every redlight on windy days girls on their bicycles are flashing their panties and it's cought on tape.
So, with your logic i'm a criminal since just the 'intent' make me different from a peeping tom, but the result is exactly the same. The 'intent' part being excessively maleable in order to fit whatever agenda of the day from the legal system.
And the worst part... For the girl on tape... The result -or more precisely lack of any effect- is the same: victimless crime it is.

Now let's continue the perversion and dig a little deeper. Thes girl, flashing their panties on their bicycles, they are exhibitionnists, it's a crime. So me, taking a picture of their behaviour can be considered as just a way of reporting a crime ? No ?


We are not here discussing aboot the usual -sexual godwinism- cliche concerning rape, girl wear short skirt, girl get raped, rapist blame the skirt. Here there is a crime committed, end of the story, and the criminal is tard enough to try to blame a totally non sequitur state (skirt or whatever). It's like if i go on raping anybody with an antropomorphous chicken suit blaming them because i'm turned on by poultry.
Here we are talking aboot 2 legal things that when they are combined somehow get someone turned into a criminal and the other one into a victim for some reasons, that don't exactly match with reality...