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by dalke 3933 days ago
The New York marathon has around 50K finishers. Many of the finishers will have friends and family taking pictures of them crossing the finish line.

That will end up generating many similar pictures taken from near one area and within a short time.

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Right. But nobody is trying to force anyone to use this, the whole point is to help people take original and interesting pictures.

If you want to take family pictures of a race event, just use a regular camera, not a specialised artistic one.

>But nobody is trying to force anyone to use this

Of course not. But please note that all cameras that do not include the GPS restriction feature to ensure that they are not being used to photograph either copyrighted or protected scenes will now have a protection tax that will be used to cover the litigation and enforcement costs resulting from the misuse of such cameras. Regulation is also currently being purposed to require the sale of cameras which can so easily be abused to be restricted only to licensed individuals. To ensure your best experience with these new anti-terrorism measures, your ownership of existing cameras will be grandfathered in.

You might also be excited to know that we are currently working on updates that will also help protect children by ensuring that no photo of a child can be taken without his or her parents' express approval! More details will be released soon!

Point taken, and a good one as well. I (metaphorically) withdraw my comment.