[Phonecam Shoplifting]

"Digital shoplifting" is a new term for surrepticiously photographing the page of a magazine at the newsstand with camera-phones or other new small digital cameras. How many times have you bought a Friday paper just to find out the time of a single weekend event? It's a fad among Japanese teen girls, for example, to shoot fashion pictures from super-expensive fashion magazines and send them to one another. "Now that cell phones with little digital cameras have spread throughout Asia, so have new brands of misbehavior...Some people are secretly taking photos up women's skirts and down into bathroom stalls. Others are avoiding buying books and magazines by snapping free shots of desired pages...More than 25 million of the devices are out on the streets of Japan.. Bookstores say it is devastating sales...The owner of the Yakumodo book store in Tokyo, has put up a poster that says: "Magazine lovers [should] watch their manners." [Wired News]