Making people pay to download their own images they uploaded is pretty scummy. Were people actually using Flickr as cloud storage? They could have just put a ca

Making people pay to download their own images they uploaded is pretty scummy. Were people actually using Flickr as cloud storage? They could have just put a captcha on downloads to solve that if so. It's not like the bandwidth cost of a full-size jpeg is that significant; this is 100% a cashgrab. (Edit: I thought they meant like automated cloud storage, something that would obviously be a ToS violation, because as benoau pointed out, hosting your photos is literally the whole point of Flickr. Having the full-size original photo there was its selling point.)