"Women are being advised to play copyrighted Disney music when they spot men secretly recording them with Meta glasses."

[u/Sebastianlim]

[u/theoriginalzads]

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[u/NobodyLikedThat1]

That used to be the advice for those first amendment auditors so they can't monetize the YouTube videos but apparently it's fairly easy to find editing software to get rid of the copyrighted music

Not sure what the point of that would be for the guys in Meta glasses unless they're trying to monetize it

[u/CrazyBigHog → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

Right? I would imagine most of the videos taken by creeps are for personal spank material and not for content.

[u/rakkl → u/CrazyBigHog]

Apparently you can voice command them to stop recording, which is way more convenient than soundtracking your public life with Disney songs anyway, but I'm just repeating what I've read in reddit comments, not verified info.

[u/LordFett84 → u/rakkl]

And the voice command is....

[u/johnnylovelace → u/LordFett84]

“I’m getting fed up with this orgasm”

[u/chaotic4059 → u/johnnylovelace]

No, that's for stopping your brainwashed daughter from killing you

[u/InsultingFerret → u/chaotic4059]

only for the first 7 days after you reactivate her tho

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/chaotic4059]

Uhhh

[u/Commercial-Snow2877 → u/johnnylovelace]

Elite ball knowledge. Very elite

[u/BumWink → u/LordFett84]

"Hey Meta, stop."

I just did some quick research & that's the official prompt, though "Hey Meta, stop video." or "Hey Meta, stop recording." also work but these only work if they have voice commands enabled which is apparently a choice during setup & optional in settings, they're not automatically enabled.

[u/Phil_Coffins_666 → u/BumWink]

So what you're saying is you're just better off striking the record button on the side with your open hand?

[u/hehehexd13 → u/Phil_Coffins_666]

I would recommend a closed fist, that way if you miss the button, you can serve the wearer a knuckle sandwich

[u/OkFineIllUseTheApp → u/LordFett84]

I have evidence that can implicate Zuckerberg

[u/Oldbayislove → u/LordFett84]

"Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet."

[u/SufficientBakery → u/rakkl]

"Hey Meta, end video."
"Hey Meta, stop video."

From https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/c/frequently-asked-questions-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses?msockid=2f0bc5c8d401652d37c9d33ad511640f&utm

[u/BrokenEyeReborn → u/SufficientBakery]

Is there a "hey Meta, delete video"? Or, like, "hey Meta, reformat hard drive"?

[u/Character-Education3 → u/BrokenEyeReborn]

Hey Meta, factory reset, confirm

[u/quickblur → u/BrokenEyeReborn]

"Hey Meta, self-destruct"

[u/licoricenipple → u/BrokenEyeReborn]

Hey Meta, play What's New Pussycat 27 times

[u/Hottage → u/licoricenipple]

Hey Meta, set volume to maximum and play "Baby Shark Skibidi Toilet Remix (bass boosted)" on repeat. Disable voice controls.

[u/Less_Party → u/SufficientBakery]

I'm oddly disappointed they didn't even give it a cute name like wow we really are in the end stages of them even pretending to give a fuck about consumers when you just have to call your pervert glasses by their brand name.

[u/Black_Doc_on_Mars → u/rakkl]

Sadly this tactic is also being used by police to prevent civilians from recording and posting online them doing unethical/illegal activities and harming other citizens.

[u/No-Telephone-7532 → u/Black_Doc_on_Mars]

"Let it gooooo, let it gooooo~" ❄️

[u/Black_Doc_on_Mars → u/No-Telephone-7532]

Getting your ass beat to frozen is diabolical

[u/Ellefique → u/Black_Doc_on_Mars]

when i get beat up by the police I want the song to be You're Welcome.

or the one Danny Devito sang for Hercules, "WOOOOAHHHHH!! There goes my ulcer!!!"

[u/Black_Doc_on_Mars → u/Ellefique]

Fml lol

[u/Mahkn0 → u/Black_Doc_on_Mars]

I think Hakuna Matata would be the worst personally.

[u/bladex1234 → u/Black_Doc_on_Mars]

You can still post things with copyrighted music, you just can’t monetize it.

[u/HamburgerOnAStick → u/rakkl]

I think you can, but aren't they also voice trained?

[u/BlazingImp77151 → u/HamburgerOnAStick]

I would expect them to have voice recognition. To prevent strangers saying stuff in the background from controlling your stuff.

But that's just me.

[u/Dapper-Print9016 → u/BlazingImp77151]

Alexa, buy 100 cans of creamed corn... confirm.

[u/Malefectra → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

I believe the new tactic to jam up these kinds of fuckers is actually to act like you're doing a segue to a sponsorship, which fucks with adsense and stuff so they have to junk all the footage.

[u/mjac1090 → u/Malefectra]

Unless the point isn't to make money. These creeps are likely just recording women they want to jerk off to so none of those things will prevent them from recording then or jerking off later. Also, I really hate that this is a fucking thing. It really isn't difficult to be a decent person, or at least it shouldn't be.

[u/Malefectra → u/mjac1090]

It doesn't prevent them, but your odd behavior acting like you were suddenly filming an ad spot would get a fair bit of bystander attention. Last time I had to deal with anything even remotely like that I learned that creeps hate bystander attention. It's pretty much their Kryptonite because they know it could end with their ass getting beat or arrested.

[u/AnRealDinosaur → u/Malefectra]

My go to has always been to attract as much attention as possible. I yell and point at the dude "EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS CREEP" as loud as I can. Obviously this only works in a place with other people, but its been pretty effective.

[u/ehs06702 → u/mjac1090]

Losers like this put these things up on porn websites too.

[u/PrincessKaylee → u/Malefectra]

"And now a segue to EatFresh, ow! A healthy, ow! Meal experience, ow! Straight to your, ouch! Doorstep, with none, ow! Of the fuss, and, ow! All the convenience! Use, ow! Code COPBEATING to, ow! get 50% off your first, ow! Order today! Cutleries sold, ow! Separately..."

[u/Malefectra → u/PrincessKaylee]

Nah I'm more this type of girl...

[u/MrCyn → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

That was my first thought, they will just replace the audio completely. I wish someones's random, incorrect tweet would not be considered a source for news.

[u/Senior_Suit_4451 → u/MrCyn]

And you have to sit through 3 ads before you can play the Disney song

[u/wishnana → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

Increase the volume to make them even more unbearable/unusable to the one recording?

[u/True_Protection6842 → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

Naw, makes it harder to fap to later

[u/AbsoluteResolve2026 → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

Unfortunately copyright doesn’t work that way. Sucks but true. Cops learnt the hard way a few years ago.

[u/ConsciousStretch1028]

I don't understand what the point is. Is this to prevent people from making content out of the videos? Or do they think Disney hit squads are gonna break down these dudes doors for daring to record half a second of You Got A Friend In Me?

[u/hefty_load_o_shite → u/ConsciousStretch1028]

I imagine it's to stop the perverts from monetising the creepy bullshit they do in public

[u/NedKellysWelder → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

If they're old fashioned perverts they're just going to end up beating off with showtunes in the background.

These glasses are awful.

[u/AdmiralSplinter → u/NedKellysWelder]

I mean, I'd find it difficult to orgasm even with "Let It Go" in the background

[u/C7rl_Al7_1337 → u/AdmiralSplinter]

Coward.

[u/NedKellysWelder → u/AdmiralSplinter]

Well and then the conflicting message that's sending you-telling you to let it go when that's antithetical to the action.

[u/hefty_load_o_shite → u/NedKellysWelder]

Being an old fashioned pervert is a lot harder. You need to get a pervert coat, and go to the pervert quarter of your city, or hang around in the pervert park... 

[u/danawhitesthrowaway → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

Yeah that doesn't work, they're not monetizing upskirt and candid videos on Youtube or Facebook.

[u/Imaginary-Count-1641 → u/danawhitesthrowaway]

How would you take upskirt videos with these glasses?

[u/Ill-Television8690 → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

It's delusional to think any variety of music could ever possibly stand in the way of this "content" being monetized... either predators pay for the footage, or they don't. The audio is pretty much 100% irrelevant for this sort of thing. It's like saying "if you don't want your art stolen, just put your name in the corner", completely ignoring all the people who will 1. steal it anyway and 2. crop your name out. The bad guys in these situations do not care.

[u/PsyOpBunnyHop → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

Audio can be stripped from a video anyway. So it doesn't matter at all.

[u/Automatic-Week-1733 → u/ConsciousStretch1028]

I think we're still 10-15 years away from thr Disney PMC Tactical Copyright Enforcement

But maybe I'm being optimistic. 

[u/Fancy-Trousers → u/ConsciousStretch1028]

A lot of "rizz videos" are being recorded and uploaded online using the pervert glasses. The glasses-wearing chode will record himself hitting on random pretty women and upload any interactions that make him look good or make the women look bad. Since the other half of motivation behind this crap other than stroking their own ego is content farming and monetization, songs from a company as quick to act as Disney get the videos either claimed, taken down, or their channel struck. And with the entire point of the content being the dialogue they can't just mute the audio before uploading.

But yes, you and others are correct that this does nothing if they are keeping recordings private or uploading on scummier sites that don't give a shit about copyright infringement.

[u/C7rl_Al7_1337 → u/Fancy-Trousers]

Even if they're uploading to youtube, removing the music is literally one click. I think that youtube itself even has a built in tool now for removing music, but I could 100% remove Disney music while keeping any other audio in DaVinci Resolve in about 15 seconds.

[u/CorrectPeanut5 → u/Fancy-Trousers]

The problem is Disney has deals with a bunch of platforms now. So it's not the auto boot it used to be. Same with Beatles.

[u/Fancy-Trousers → u/CorrectPeanut5]

They did so for TikTok, right? I don't know of any others. Either way, there are always other ol' reliables under UMG and Sony though.

[u/TheHalfChubPrince → u/ConsciousStretch1028]

There is no point. This is just shit advice repeated by people who don’t realize you can remove audio from videos during editing.

[u/a_pompous_fool → u/ConsciousStretch1028]

I think the Disney hit squad is far to realistic

[u/Southern-Cattle4038 → u/ConsciousStretch1028]

I think some social media sites will automatically take videos down if they’ve got copyrighted music, or demonitise it if it has ads in it. I’ve heard the suggestion if they engage you in conversation to start talking about how awesome ExpressVPN is

[u/playr_4]

Meta glasses should be required to have a red light come on when filming.

[u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd → u/playr_4]

They do. People are disabling the light

[u/playr_4 → u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd]

Ah. Gotta love how openly scummy people are these days.

[u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd → u/playr_4]

They've always been. Same shit was happening back when Google tried it with Google glass like 10 years ago. It eventually died off because no one wanted to hang out with people who could be recording you without your knowledge at any given moment

[u/Malefectra → u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd]

We called them glassholes

[u/RyanGlasshole → u/Malefectra]

You rang?

[u/Malefectra → u/RyanGlasshole]

Happy cake day!

You perv 😜 /s

[u/Iamadragon345 → u/RyanGlasshole]

r/beetlejuicing

[u/lofatiger → u/RyanGlasshole]

A decade! And a beetlejuice on your decade cake day!

[u/No-Sign8805 → u/Malefectra]

That's what I call hypocrites who live in glass houses while throwing stones at others.

[u/Malefectra → u/No-Sign8805]

Eh... we're all hypocrites about something. That's just the human condition

[u/PickyPanda → u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd]

sounds like the same thing is happening now, with these

[u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd → u/PickyPanda]

Sure does

[u/HTPC4Life → u/PickyPanda]

Unfortunately society is not pushing back as hard on these. I think it's twofold: people have been more exposed to cameras being everywhere compared to 2013, and these Meta glasses aren't nearly as stupid looking. Meta and Ray Bands are pushing these things fucking hard with much higher production volumes than Google Glass. They're gradually spreading everywhere. They just have to weather this storm of weak push back from society for a couple years, then they will be everywhere. We're screwed.

[u/Drfoxthefurry → u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd]

Is it at least hard wired to the camera power? Like it should be

[u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd → u/Drfoxthefurry]

No idea tbh. I just saw a news report about a guy who people were paying to disable it

[u/RebaKitt3n → u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd]

Well then it’s not quite required.

[u/InvolvingLemons → u/RebaKitt3n]

To be fair, Meta prohibits it and tries harder than you’d assume to impede it. There’s a hardware interlock that, on the latest glasses, is fairly deep such that removing the LED is very likely to either break the glasses core functions or get caught as a tampering attempt by the OS. That second point also impedes 3rd party repairs, so it’s not like they’re doing it exclusively for good reasons.

Src: used to work there. People can and should give them shit where it’s due (the latest lawsuits are deserved and overdue), but the glasses team is genuinely concerned and in an arms race with the modders.

[u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd → u/RebaKitt3n]

Disabling it isn't abuilt in option. People are doing it themselves or paying someone to disable it for them

[u/RaspberryChainsaw → u/playr_4]

In Japan there is a law in place that requires all cameras on phones have audible indications that a photo was taken. This needs to happen in the west too but with these fuck ass glasses (it'll never happen)

[u/Ok-Investigator-4590 → u/RaspberryChainsaw]

Yea didnt that come from the surplus of freaks taking up-skirt shots of underage girls on the train? Like i wish we didn't have to get to that point to see something done. this shit is so dystopian.

[u/Dewut → u/Ok-Investigator-4590]

The other day I saw a video of one Japanese guy chasing another down because he caught him using a camera set up in a shopping basket to take upskirt shots in stores.

Creeps will always find a way to adapt rather than stop being creepy.

[u/SmoreOfBabylon → u/RaspberryChainsaw]

Meta glasses as sold do have indicator lights that come on around the edges of the camera apertures that only turn on when the camera is recording. You can see these from the front. The issue is that some assholes have found a way to disable the lights.

[u/uglyheadink → u/playr_4]

There was a video not too long ago of a dude disabling the light for cash. Like had a whole ass gig doing it for people. People will always find a way to be shitty.

[u/_Fun_Employed_]

that wouldn't stop them from being recorded, would it? It would just stop those recordings from being readily monetizable without sound editing...right?

Edit:changed magnetizable to monetizable

[u/smbruck → u/_Fun_Employed_]

Correct. It would make it harder to post on many public platforms, but it could still be recorded and shared privately. And once it's in multiple people's hands, the chances of one of them taking the effort to remove the music (or hell, just strip the audio out entirely) are high. Only a matter of time it gets posted.

I understand the effort but we need more legislation and crackdown on these things because technology is advancing too quickly

[u/whatisanythingeven]

Guys it’s literally the easiest thing to edit out music. We need another way.

[u/Mayonaigg → u/whatisanythingeven]

Also what is that going to matter putting Disney music on in the first place? Does somebody think that Disney is monitoring perverts secret jerk-off material on their private drives? Does someone think Disney is out there hunting for copywrite infringement 9n websites that host illegal porn? 

[u/WeirdOk1865 → u/Mayonaigg]

When you say it like that, it sounds irrational

But Disney has sent cease and desist letters to day care centers for painting Mickey Mouse cartoons on their walls. How Disney found out about that kind of thing, I’m not sure, but when they do, they show no mercy

[u/FujiFL4T]

I genuinely don't get how these became so popular when the 2014 or 2016 Google glass was coming out and everyone hated it into not becoming available.

[u/sugar-fall → u/FujiFL4T]

People have become more influenced and interested in influencer culture more than ever since TikTok got popular. I believe this is probably the reason.

[u/isuredolovetitties → u/sugar-fall]

And you can just pay 99% of influencers to shill anything and people will buy it. 

[u/SantaFeRay → u/FujiFL4T]

Wasn’t Google Glass way more expensive? Meta glasses are like $350 and up.

[u/Technical-Will-2862 → u/SantaFeRay]

Way more expensive, way less capable, way more clunky

[u/MikeBinfinity → u/FujiFL4T]

Fashion, if you make the glasses look less like spy glasses and more like regular sun glasses, people are comfortable buying and not get instantly singled out as a perv.

Fun fact, Lenscrafters, Sunglasses hut, Raybands, Oakley, EyeMed vision insurance and several prescription Eyewear tech is ownd by a single company called essilorluxottica.

https://youtu.be/Mx1dMvbT5Fw?is=Urf6zLzhXCNgqLIt

They have a total monopoly on the whole Eyewear industry.

[u/Dimencia → u/FujiFL4T]

They look like normal glasses, and have a full internal display that you can't see from the outside. It's the AR tech we've always wanted, not some janky looking tiny screen in a corner

[u/soulreaverdan → u/Dimencia]

I hate they all the cool tech ideas we had growing up are starting to be real and they actually just all suck and are being used exclusively for the worst shit by the worst people.

[u/easymacn → u/soulreaverdan]

And it actually sucks.

“Wow. The internet is amazing. Soon people from all over the world can talk to each other! We’re all going to get so much closer and understand each her so much more!”

Social media has become a cancer and has become a net negative to the health of humanity as a species.

All the stuff we thought would be cool is actually a terrifying cosmic horror we’ve unleashed upon ourselves.

[u/Dimencia → u/soulreaverdan]

Yup, and out of all the companies that could have figured out how to fit a display into glasses, it just had to be Meta, and of course they'd stick a camera on it. Probably copyrighted the concept forever already, too

[u/im_thatoneguy]

Amazon.com : spy camera wearable

If you're a pervert, there are less obvious ways to film people. Button cameras and pen cameras have been around since like the 80s.

[u/Parapraxium → u/im_thatoneguy]

Meta glasses are just the latest culture war ragebait

[u/bs000 → u/Parapraxium]

Everybody was really worked up about being stalked with AirTags for a hot minute, and everyone just forgot all of a sudden. Like the guy committed to stalking you is going to use something that beeps loudly and sends notifications directly to your phone when it's been near you long enough, and has all your identifying information that Apple can hand over to police. Instead of just buying a device actually used for tracking people for less money on aliexpress.

[u/licoricenipple → u/bs000]

AirTags originally only beeped or notified you of proximity after 3 days, and there were recorded cases of stalkers putting them on their victims' cars and swapping them out every few nights to avoid it. They shortened it to randomized sub-day intervals because of all the people worked up about stalking.

The pre-existing tracking devices you're talking about were considered riskier because they required an active SIM card and data plan for real-time tracking, and in many countries it's hard to sign up for a data plan without identifying information. AirTags worked without a data plan and only required an Apple account which you could create anonymously. The other type, which don't require a data plan but only record GPS information to internal storage, were a lot less popular for stalkers because they didn't offer real-time tracking, only history.

[u/dqql → u/Parapraxium]

i’m convinced it’s a campaign by Flock to distract from people becoming aware of flock… the timing is too perfect, and the glasses have been out for years and just now i suddenly see 3 posts a day about meta glasses.
(p.s. i hate meta and facebook, but the glasses are not why)

[u/RedditJumpedTheShart → u/dqql]

You can't be serious. Have you not seen how stupid social media is with everything?

[u/ImmaSpaghett → u/Parapraxium]

Don't understand how a product like this ascended to that, society is regarded these days. These glasses shouldn't exist yet we'll take 10-20 years+ to make a ruling on how these should/should not be used in public settings

[u/donoteatshrimp → u/im_thatoneguy]

Pen camera was what a teacher in my town got caught with for watching girls undressing!

[u/bingle-cowabungle]

If women are being secretly recorded with pervert glasses, that footage is not going up on websites that care about copyright.

[u/mercuriokazooie]

Because the people that could do something about this are best friends with the people who make them.

[u/Fallenjace]

It is not illegal to film someone on the street. That being said, ewww. They should legally have a little red blinking light.

[u/Fallenjace → u/Fallenjace]

To the person who deleted their comment saying:

In the US, depending on where you live and what you intend or the. do with that footage it absolutely can be

That is incorrect. It is generally legal to film people in any public spaces - such as streets, sidewalks, and parks where individuals do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. No matter the intention, with or without your permission. But what do I know, I only worked in a law firm for a decade. Yep, me and the Supreme court, what do we know?

[u/SeedFoundation → u/Fallenjace]

I wonder if they will do the same thing like in Japan where you can't take a photo without a shutter sound. Of course there are ways to get around it but it's still a step in the right direction rather than ban it outright. Requiring a red light to be visible is certainly a very interesting idea.

[u/mjac1090 → u/SeedFoundation]

Requiring a red light to be visible is certainly a very interesting idea.

Literally already a thing for meta glasses. People were getting around that by paying people (I believe it used to be they would drill into the light but I read they updated the glasses so that the camera not seeing the light turns it off. I'm guessing there's so new mod now)

[u/SeedFoundation → u/mjac1090]

I am not talking about company standards but required by law.

[u/bs000 → u/SeedFoundation]

The shutter sound isn't required by law in Japan either. It was just something all the major phone brands agreed to do voluntarily when cellphone cameras were starting to get popular. It was a preemptive measure out of fear that the government would outright ban cellphone cameras if they didn't do something to soothe public fears about privacy.

[u/7thFleetTraveller → u/Fallenjace]

It is not illegal to film someone on the street.

Over here in Germany, it is. You can't just film people without their consent, that's against our personality rights. But still, I don't think such a device would be forbidden only because you "could" potentially do something illegal with it. There are a lot of legal uses for them which are no problem. I agree though, some kind of light signal to show a camera is filming, might be a good solution.

[u/bcocoloco → u/7thFleetTraveller]

It’s a lot more nuanced than that. Otherwise every tourist would be breaking the law by taking pictures.

[u/7thFleetTraveller → u/bcocoloco]

This is defined by the law, too. When you take pictures of sights, and there are people randomly in the background, taking the picture is legal. You're not directly pointing the camera at their faces and focusing them, they are random background. But, if you want to upload the picture online where it can be seen in public, then you have to blur out the faces.

[u/JonathanPhillipFox]

It does speak to how insane and inhumane copyright is that your rights, "nah," Disney's?

OK

[u/Imaginary-Count-1641 → u/JonathanPhillipFox]

Copyright does apply to you, actually.

[u/Traditional-Lie-8841]

Also known as “The Tracy Jordan Gambit”

[u/Ok_Raisin_2395]

These "women" and "men" by the way aren't real. They don't exist. This was made up by some random reporter based on one satirical TikTok saying that this method would probably work because Meta simps for advertisers... Which it wouldn't, by the way, the glasses can record anything lol, it would just prevent you from monetizing it if you uploaded it. 

You're swinging at ghost in the name of these meaningless gender wars. 

[u/gksxj → u/Ok_Raisin_2395]

also... removing the music is 1 click on Youtube and just a couple more in any editing software . This achieves nothing at all.

It's made-up people sharing a "tip" that does nothing

[u/Ristar87]

What is the disney music supposed to do? Does it stop the recording somehow?

[u/GrandPraline375 → u/Ristar87]

In case the pervert publishes

[u/Murky-Relation481 → u/GrandPraline375]

Pretty sure most creeps aren't publishing their videos on YouTube or even monetizing them at all.

It's like people forget there are more websites than just YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and reddit on the Internet.

[u/MothChasingFlame → u/Ristar87]

Disney is notoriously litigious; if you use any of their copyrighted material, they'll come for you. The men recording can't post the video with that music playing without getting a strike.

[u/Zhirrzh → u/MothChasingFlame]

Ah yes, the perv is definitely recording in order to post it on public YouTube under their real name where Disney can issue a DMCA takedown.

The real answer is "the music will do nothing, this is just a dumb idea someone's posted to farm social media likes".

[u/VanillaRadonNukaCola → u/Zhirrzh]

Like when people forward those old "this is notice that i don't give Facebook permission to use my posted content" chain posts

[u/Same-Suggestion-1936 → u/MothChasingFlame]

I don't think they're recording for the sake of posting online for others though if their intentib recording is nefarious

[u/theoriginalzads]

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[u/HrodgardNagrand]

Yeah, those guys aren't doing it for the sound

[u/Electronic-Fig2283 → u/HrodgardNagrand]

Time to walk around with a Disney mask then

[u/prof_mcquack]

Did someone time travel to the early 1900s and invent bullying people with glasses just to prepare us for this? 

[u/stubob1701]

So once again it’s down to women to actively fend off unwanted attention rather than the men themselves changing their behaviour around women.

[u/Ok_Vulva → u/stubob1701]

No its up to Disney to protect them.

[u/MatterofDoge → u/stubob1701]

I mean... the people who need to be told these things are who they are because they don't care about what you think proper behavior is in the first place, so going on a "men need to change" rant is at best ineffective, and at worst it generalizes all the men minding their own business being told they need to change behavior they don't have, making them jaded and apathetic to the problems women face because it just becomes "here we go again getting blamed and lectured for stuff I don't do". So all in all, its a useless endeavor that doesn't help anything and basically makes things worse.

So yea... forgive people for trying to come up with some type of response besides that pointless option

[u/hefty_load_o_shite]

If they not perverts why they wear pervert glasses?

[u/LifeToTheMedium → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

To make PoV ewaste scrapping vids for me lol.

I know a couple of clinicians who use them to make wound rv videos and take audio notes while keeping a clean field instead of a pile of static photos.

Anywhere where a GoPro headmount makes sense but less action content these are much lighter and easy to use.

I haven't seen them in the wild yet tbh.

[u/LegendOfBobbyTables → u/LifeToTheMedium]

Also popular for rollercoaster POVs since they are now allowed to be used on most Six Flags rides. They have niche applications, but wearing them to record people in Starbucks seems to be way too popular.

[u/booze_clues → u/LifeToTheMedium]

Every company that makes a product that is essentially a computer on your face thinks that’s what everyone wants and it just hasn’t been done lightweight and comfortable enough. The truth is that the only people who want the computer on their face and not their hands are people that work with their hands. If these didn’t have the Meta brand they’d probably go the way of all the others and end up primarily used as a tool more than a consumer product.

[u/its_free_sog → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

Just because you can only think of pervy reasons to use them doesn’t mean everyone else is a piece of shit too

[u/TsunamiCatCakes → u/its_free_sog]

exactly. they are reallly good for bike vlogging, food flogging, POV streams for road side stalls (big thing my 3rd world country), pressure washing videos (super in demand). not everyone is a pervert. those glasses just remove the need for a phone mount helmet

[u/G36 → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

because hobbies are awesome with these, no need to have one hand occupied in a phone, voice commands are really nice.

It also scares redditors away which are people I don't want to be close to irl

[u/TerrytheToeSucker → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

There's people that use them to record interactions for safety reasons, there are genuine reasons to use them. There just happen to be a lot of really bad things they can be used for as well. Someone wearing them in public is not necessarily enough to form any judgement of what they're doing, and more information is needed.

[u/GPTMCT → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

Blind people use them to describe what they are looking at.

[u/NewAudience6075]

It seems to me that if you have time to pull out some music device and start up a Disney playlist, you have time to pull out a can of spray paint* and, uh, temporarily obscure the camera's lens.

*For legal reasons, I mean non-toxic, water soluble spray paint. I'm sure someone makes that.

[u/shreddiee]

I’m sure all the people recording care about is the actual video, not the audio unfortunately. They’re trying to capture what they see, not hear

[u/AbyssWankerArtorias]

To answer the question, because recording in public is legal. This isn't really a new concept. Hidden cameras on clothing have been a thing for a while as well. What people have an issue with now is how fast and synchronized the camera is with the Internet and AI that allows someone to find information on you potentially very fast.

[u/Bladesnake_______ → u/AbyssWankerArtorias]

But your phone can do that with photos and the internet just as fast. thats not even unique to the glasses

[u/Space19723103]

Di$ney really likes taking down Galaxy Quest content...

[u/TerrapinMagus]

Whether you are for or against concealable recording devices, the conversations around these glasses are so full of people who have no idea what they're talking about lmao

[u/DarkPolumbo]

If you have money to blow, I'm certain that THIS will permanently destroy the photoreceptors in any camera with very little effort.

For this particular application, however, you're at a huge risk of blinding the creep since his creep shades' cameras are an inch away from his eyes.

[u/NonStickyAdhesive → u/DarkPolumbo]

huge risk of blinding the creep

Should count as reasonable self defense

[u/Alarmed_Drop7162 → u/DarkPolumbo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/6IPNUgkpCsDRK

[u/redbirdjazzz]

Don Henley’s probably even more aggressive than Disney in pursuing copyright violations.

[u/just_some_sasquatch]

The damage to society done by Meta is absolutely immeasurable.

[u/IDKandfranklyIDC]

Or just start singing the lyrics to hotel California. They might be able to use software to cancel out the played audios. But they can't use you for content if all you're doing is singing a copyrighted song. And Hotel California is notorious for getting striked all the time. Even if you mention the name of the song you are at risk.

[u/arbitrageME]

Does that make Disney lawyers the good guys in this story? Or at least like biomimicry like a milk snake or that moth with the giant owl eyes

[u/No-Advice-6040]

Disney? Bah. Just keep playing Eagles songs. Don Henley will paratroop on to your location with a crack team of lawyers to sue your ass.

[u/lawsibyt]

Mulan still saving the day

[u/Msefk]

because we couldn't have google glass but now ya'll got this crap

[u/Tetha_au]

I see a lot of throat punching in my future.

[u/ScotiaTheTwo]

game is absolutely gone, for multiple reasons

first being that creepy men are recording women without their consent
second that we’re living in an age where we’re allowing people to wear glasses to record videos of people
third, that the workaround is to record copyrighted music so algorithms will remove the videos

at no point here is there any humanity- where are people’s rights and respect of each other?

[u/yesimfinewhyyouask]

Can someone explain why the fuck would they even film? You have googlebytes of porn till the end of history for free, and you need to film clothed women telling you to fuck off?

[u/ThePr0vider]

something being illegal onl;y stops honest people. See: the fuckheads who offer the service to drill out the LED that tells you the glases are recording (and the people who pay for it)

[u/newAscadia]

This doesn't really address the issue

Kind of hard to spot someone secretly recording you when you know, they're secretly recording you.

A bozo with a phone, sure this is helpful advice, but one of the infuriating things about Meta glasses is half the time you don't even know you're being recorded

[u/BeetleBjorksta34]

How would you know or feel that someone is ‘secretly’ recording you if they’re doing it secretly and if there’s no obvious way to know that they’re doing it?

Those glasses should be illegal though, I feel they should only be allowed in very specific professional situations.

[u/Aeryn-Sun-Is-My-Girl]

They're not illegal for the same reason that cameras in general aren't illegal.

[u/Space19723103]

they are 'legal' because camera laws haven't been properly enforced or updated for phones yet let alone up to the glasses

[u/Born_Procedure_529]

Listen my dad got a free pair from the optometrist and I just use them to listen to spotify while I walk my dog since he couldnt figure out how to use them, it aint my fault some of yall dont know how to behave

[u/19whale96 → u/Born_Procedure_529]

Right, I was growing up when we all thought augmented reality could become a thing, I'm not a pervert, I just want a HUD

[u/DlpsYks → u/19whale96]

Live subtitles

[u/No_Watercress741 → u/DlpsYks]

God I wish, I mishear stuff constantly, IRL subtitles would be a GODSEND.

[u/AbyssWankerArtorias → u/Born_Procedure_529]

I didn't have high confidence in your dog figuring out how to use them but I'm glad you did.

[u/WhichHoes → u/Born_Procedure_529]

When I was in the car industry our mechanics and service techs used them to provide pov shots when working on cars or explaining tech

[u/Tinfoil_cobbler]

This doesn’t work anymore there is software that will just blank the music out of the video easily

[u/LeopardNo6083]

Because the laws are actually willing to protect a corporation like Disney.

[u/GoblinCorp]

Look at this stuff! Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collections' complete? But who cares, no big deal, I want mooooore!

[u/Buchlinger]

What kind of bullshit advice is that?

[u/Midnorth_Mongerer]

It is a pity that we are too piss weak to collectively point the finger and name & shame these perverts.

[u/dc2410]

Who is watching their content… the world is fucked man.

[u/g0tmylk]

This wont help, they aren't live streaming from the glasses, they can just mute the audio?

[u/BillionairDoors]

You guys. This is it. This is how we get real life musicals. You know most girls are just going have to break into a "Let it Go" and all supportive girl's girls in the vicinity are going to backup sing for her.

[u/redditzphkngarbage]

These women are amateurs. If they play Nintendo songs instead then Nintendo will try to get a patent on Meta glasses.

[u/hornybisexual20]

If this is real then I feel something has to be said about society having laws to protect the rights of songs and music but not the rights of women

[u/ChaosOfOrder24]

[u/DotBitGaming]

Yeah, 'cause a shady real voyuer website is gonna care about copyright.

[u/SuperiorTechnique]

I have some and I don't use them to goon.

[u/TrashFever78]

I find it best to assume anyone who owns these glasses are douches that should be avoided at all costs even when not actively wearing them.

[u/ItsABiscuit]

If not totally illegal, they should at least be required to have a bright light that activates when they are turned on, so it’s obvious to people that you’re wearing a camera and potentially live streaming or recording them.

We don’t ban phones having cameras, but the insidious thing about the glasses is that they are a pervert, stalker or surveillance agent’s delight because they are essentially a hidden camera.

[u/bs000 → u/[deleted]]

i'm pretty sure attempting to blind someone with a laser is a little more illegal than filming in public. and if by 'high grade' you mean over 1 mW, that's illegal to even possess