Security guards at Rolling Stones concerts are ordering people to hang up their cellphones and stop "violating copyright" by letting long-distance pals listen in on the show according to a posting to Undercover, a Rolling Stones fan email list (idiocy). [via Boing Boing]Cellphone quality must have increased substantially when I wasn't looking for the Stones to be worried about this sort of piracy. Of course, you don't need copyright law in order to tell people in your venue to turn off their cell phones, but I guess it sounds more official. Perhaps it is part of Hollywood's campaign against illicit file-sharing?
I wonder if AT&T Wireless, the Official Sponsor of the Rolling Stones LICKS Tour, is aware of this?