Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice 313
DavidGilbert99 writes "Many Instagram users have reacted angrily to a proposed change to the apps terms of service by owner Facebook, which would give the social network 'perpetual' rights to all photos on Instagram, allowing it to sell the photos to advertisers without notice — or payment to the user. The new policy will come into effect on 16 January, just four months after Facebook completed its $1bn acquisition of Instagram. It states that Facebook has a right to distribute any content posted on Instagram without paying the user royalties:"
Also worth reading Declan McCullagh's take on it.
Instagram Bubble (Score:5, Funny)
Like your photos are stubble
That they'll just whisk away
And save you the trouble.
Burma Shave
Stockphotos (Score:5, Funny)
And suddenly (Score:5, Funny)
Just when I thought I could never want to use Instagram less, this happens.
Re:Instagram Bubble (Score:5, Funny)
Bait... (Score:3, Funny)
....aaaaaaaaaaaaand switch.
Re:You need their service! (Score:5, Funny)
Who needs the internet, I've got Facebook!
Re:Instagram Bubble (Score:5, Funny)
are you kidding?
celebs using twitter or instagram is a direct connection to fans. unlike 30 years ago when the only connection was a fan club you had to pay for or the trade magazines
unlike most geeks, celebs aren't crazy like my dad and don't care if someone makes money off them in a symbiotic business relationship.
But - but but... (Score:4, Funny)
But I posted that disclaimer on Facebook expressly forbidding them to do that
Re:Instagram Bubble (Score:5, Funny)
Something smells like fish.
Why do you guys keep reminding me of old jokes, which I'm then compelled to share?
The snake tempts Eve, who shares the apple with Adam before having wild, passionate sex. A while later God walks up and Adam's wearing an apron made of fig leaves.
"You ate the apple, didn't you?" God asks accusingly.
"Uh, yeah, we... uh, well, she kinda talked me into it."
"Ok, where is she?"
"She's down at the river washing up."
God says "Damn, I'll never get the smell out of all those fish!"
Human Cendipede... (Score:5, Funny)
If you read a little further down in the EULA, it also says they have the right to perform medical experiments on you, including making you part of a human centipede...
Re:Instagram Bubble (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stockphotos (Score:5, Funny)
You just lost points for admitting you watch Judge Judy...
Just Like Lando and the Cloud City (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Instagram Bubble (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Instagram Bubble (Score:5, Funny)
That name has always bugged me. Wouldn't you expect a Trojan to be something that covertly carries a multitude of soldiers to the inside of the gates and then releases them? That's the absolute last thing you want from a condom.
Re:Stockphotos (Score:5, Funny)
Speak for yourself, for some of us defrauding lonely and desperate people using an online profile only loosely grounded in reality is still the best way to get dates.
Yeah, and the rest of us end up using some obscure function like
#include
struct tm *getdate(const char *string);
kinda lonely but it works every time.