The real issues are: 1. All the lost metadata. By making the images available on Flickr users were unearthing the interesting images from the 5 million plus co

The real issues are: 1. All the lost metadata. By making the images available on Flickr users were unearthing the interesting images from the 5 million plus collection and creating all sorts of valuable metadata. 2. There is no way to explore the images as they are stored on IA. At a certain point if the data can't be explored it may as well not be available.