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While some exorbitantly rich folk caught in the glare of incessantly flashing cameras might secretly love the paparazzi attention lavished/forced upon them during rare moments of escape from public view, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is certainly not one of them.
Sadly, the laser shied doesn\'t protect him from Chelsea fans. Image: Free-ers/Flickr.
Sure, the high-profile owner of Chelsea FC might have everything a man could want, including a 560-foot luxury liner worth some $1.2 billion USD, but what poor Roman wants, what he really, really wants (beyond the Champions League crown), is protection from prying journalistic lenses.
More pointedly, the lavish Eclipse cruise liner comes complete with an advanced laser shielding system that detects nearby CCDs (charge-coupled devices) used in the majority of CMOS chips and blocks any incoming snap from the host camera by slamming it with an intense preventative beam of light.
News of Roman’s snazzy laser shield, and the technology-based protection it will provide him, has already been met with some resistance by photography journalists keen to stick their cameras where they don’t necessarily belong.
And, supporting any emergent disdain, a London lawyer told UK photography magazine Amateur Photographer that the laser shield equates to “intermeddling with goods belonging to someone else, or altering their condition, [which] is a trespass to goods and will entitle the photographer to claim compensation without having to prove loss.”
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