The Golden Era of browsing shaky YouTube footage of last night's big show may be drawing to a close. Soon, you may be able to actually go to a concert without seeing the band reflected in the glow of at least 10 iPhone cameras around you. According to the British newspaper The Daily Mail, via the Times, Apple has filed a patent application for a technology that will block iPhone cameras from recording live events, and they're apparently going to sci-fi lengths to make it happen.According to The Daily Mail, this technology will involve infrared sensors placed around venues. If you hold your phone up, those sensors will detect and disable your camera while allowing all the other applications on your phone to continue working. Apple reportedly filed the patent application 18 months ago in California.

The Daily Mail reports that Apple is supposedly doing this to placate broadcasters and record companies upset that their intellectual property is making it out into the world in unlicensed, shakily-filmed form. It would also allow Apple the option of charging users to film events.

For some idea of what we could be missing, here's some fan-made footage of Lil Wayne doing "A Milli" at Bonnaroo last weekend.