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> Storage is cheap It’s cheaper than it used to be, but it’s not so cheap that you can give away a free terabyte of it to millions of users. The announcement e
by jl6 8y ago
> Storage is cheap
It’s cheaper than it used to be, but it’s not so cheap that you can give away a free terabyte of it to millions of users. The announcement explicitly calls out that storage is a huge cost for them.
- dingaling 8y agoYet they give free storage to Flickr Commons institutions ( British Library etc ) who have literally hundreds of millions of images. They have been exempted from this new policy. This is just a shakedown against the little people using photos that they uploaded in compliance with ToS as blackmail. It's not just the damage it will do to the Internet that is the problem, it is the ethical question. Do you still trust Flickr as a custodian? What happens if you let your Pro account lapse? Imagine if GMail announced that they were restricting accounts to 1000 emails and deleting the rest. Would anyone trust them after that? I'm well under the new limit but will be migrating to another service, and will be paying for it.