How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

Post by bmm6o » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 9:12 PM UTC

_account wrote: post #75

dfxm12 wrote: post #36

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The big deal is that someone is profiting from my work without my consent and it isn't me . It's that we (the people) get slammed by DMCA violations for taking someone else's content (for private consumption). When a huge corporation takes ours (and gets paid for it), what recourse do we have? It's that these corporations can change the rules on us in the middle of the game. It's the classic bait and switch. It's tha…

"The big deal is that someone is profiting from my work without my consent and it isn't me." You know you've just described all the popular free services[email,facebook,instagram, dropbox....and so on...]. It is amusing to see people get irate over something that is such OLD news. Implicitly, your information and your privacy has been up for sale for years but when the reality is explicitly stated, some people get up…

Post by equalarrow » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 9:17 PM UTC

bjornsteffanson wrote: post #58

dfxm12 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big deal is that someone is profiting from my work without my consent and it isn't me . It's that we (the people) get slammed by DMCA violations for taking someone else's content (for private consumption). When a huge corporation takes ours (and gets paid for it), what recourse do we have? It's that these corporations can change the rules on us in the middle of the game. It's the classic bait and switch. It's tha…

Technically we _are_ giving our consent by using the service. In fact, we already agreed to the current terms, which state "We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time." It's not even a classic bait-and-switch. It's clearly stated in the contract we all signed up for. I agree that it's sort of uncool on Instagram's part, but as fellow app developers, shouldn't we also be siding with Instagram for the…

Post by grinich » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

rwhitman wrote: post #70

News flash - YouTube also has a TOS that allows them to license and resell your uploaded content and it has worked this way for years.

    Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising 
    revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored 
    content or promotions, you agree that a business or other 
    entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos 
    (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, 
    in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, 
    without any compensation to you

Post by MartinCron » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

slykat wrote: post #43

siglesias wrote: post #23

Can somebody explain to me what the big deal is about Instagram and these new terms of service? I can't fathom that anything but 1% of 1% of photos taken there are good enough to be used commercially, and if folks are so afraid that their pictures of Starbucks lattes will be used in some kind of marketing campaign (in which case they should actually be flattered), what exactly is stopping users from removing location…

The main issue is that basically it removes the concept of private photos. The new TOS allows Instagram to use your photos any way they want and removes any responsibility of keeping private pictures private. Those pictures of you doing a keg stand at a Toga party which you shared only with your closest friends? Well now they are in a nationwide PSA about binge drinking. Those pictures of you with your ex girlfriend…

Post by imgabe » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 9:21 PM UTC

drewcrawford wrote: post #71

imgabe wrote: post #50

For those of you who don't think this is a big deal. Instagram is explicitly stating that they're going to sell the use of your pictures to third parties. They're also going to start showing ads in their news stream. I know the pictures are of too low quality to be plastered on a billboard. That's not the point. What I expect they want to happen is something like this: I post a picture of me drinking a Coke to Instag…

> For another thing, generally, when you appear in an advertisement for a product, you get paid. Your likeness in the context of a commercial ad campaign has value I don't think this is going to be a popular opinion, but keep in mind that Instagram has untold engineers and UI people, all of whom are fairly expensive, and this advertising clause is really in lieu of a licensing fee, not something consumers provide "fo…