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rahul
about 1 year ago about Yahoo
Recently Rebekka Guðleifsdóttira got ripped off from the gallery (Only Dreemin) she was using to sell her artwork. She posted the situation on FlickrStream having a huge following there in order to inform people of the situation. Yahoo! decided to remove the post and removed every single comment on it, even threatening to terminate the account. Read the rest of the details at ThomasHawk.com
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Sad change of course
submitted by jarkko (verified representative for dotherightthing.com) about 1 year ago
It’s really sad that such an intimate community-driven business as Flickr has been forced to the mega-corporate mould. From Thomas’ story:
You could see that coming already in the form of giving up the quick and friendly registration process in favor of Yahoo’s 15-minute+ fight with “username crazy_foo_12345 is already taken, may we suggest you another dumbass username” messages. But I kind of kept the hope that that was just a necessary evil.
The current issue goes far beyond inconvenience, though. It’s bad enough to blindly bend over to random (and often faked) DMCA notices, but actually irreversibly deleting content from a site like Flickr must take one of the top spots on my WTF?!? list.
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