[Leica] Re. should cameras with silent shutters be outlawed?

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Yet another blunt-instrument law proposed by a grandstanding politician 
purporting to protect us from perps, perverts and pedophiles.  The 
comments at the ABC site pretty much point out the uselessness and 
absurdity of such a law.  The bill's author is a rather colorful 
character who reportedly is very interested in becoming a U.S. Senator. 
I suspect the bill is just future campaign fodder. Note that it has no 
co-sponsors.

Of course, as the owner of an M8 with the original shutter, I have 
nothing to fear from such a law, even if it is extended to cover digital 
cameras.  You M8.2 owners and prospective M9 owners better save your 
pennies to send your camera back to Solms for a retrofit shutter 
downgrade if this bill passes.  :-)

--Peter
> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 14:43:52 -0400
> From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
> Subject: [Leica] should cameras with silent shutters be outlawed?
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> Proposed legislation would require that cell phone cameras make a noise to 
> alert victims they're being photographed:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6750825&page=1
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> it's still in committee:
>
> http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show
>
> I think it's been the wish of many Leica photographers that they could be 
> silent and invisible. Technology steps up to the plate, the world changes.
>