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Perhaps if he had chosen to shutter his business in a more orderly fashion, and made arrangements to take care of the significant quantity of visual contemporar
by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Perhaps if he had chosen to shutter his business in a more orderly fashion, and made arrangements to take care of the significant quantity of visual contemporary history of which that business was the defacto caretaker, it would be easier to forgive being "busy".
We're talking about 800 MILLION pictures here. Noah is apparently too busy to save them, but not so busy that he can't find the time to actively prevent others from saving them. That's pretty hard to support.
- res0nat0r 12y agoEntitlement really doesn't seem to be the best way to think about it. They don't owe you or anyone any type of end result, and like most topics I see discussed here when I've been involved with a couple of them behind the scenes: there is a lot more going on than you think, and issues are not simply black or white.
- eropple 12y agoWhen you set up a public service, you do have a moral obligation not to abuse your users, as well as not to abuse the public good. There's an implicit contract with your users to do right by them, especially with a service that has, no joke, a ton of legitimate, important historical record to it. When you abuse the public trust, you get flak for it. That's a feature, not a bug.
- ObviousScience 12y agoYes, things that explain why they refuse to allow people to pay for the archive in a sensible way, and seem to be intending to just destroy people's data instead in what can only be described as ostensibly spite or apathy to their users. No wonder they failed at business if this is how they act during hard times.