Instagram suicide note

[sevo]

Facebook is at it again:
http://rt.com/news/instagram-to-sell-photos-262/

Moral and intellectual theft issues aside, this will make it impossible for professionals to sell/licence Instagram pictures they have taken. Publishers and agents generally demand a exclusive licence or similar protection of their investment, and nothing alongside a pretty unlimited licence to a mega corporation. Seems like the dreaded cellphone competition decapitated itself, at least for a brief while...

 

[hipsterdufus]

I'm now incredibly glad I don't use it.

 

[jarski]

well learned today about snapseed being free, and already liking it more than instagram 🙄

 

[sevo]

What scares me is that this may actually be a marketing decision by their analysts to disregard the pro users and focus on milking the consumers - if their rate of growth continues, they will soon own free photography of almost every newsworthy event, and could form a pretty severe competitor for the existing agencies in the market.

 

[unixrevolution]

Based on this information, I canceled my pledge for a Projecteo through kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1209578799/projecteo-the-tiny-instagram-projector

It's a cool device, but tying it only to Instagram kills it for me.

 

[Photo_Smith]

Wow! what a crazy thing to do, sell your customers work without crediting them just because they use your service.
If this catches on your Prolab/minilab or cloud service could also want a piece of your pie.
I guess it's about images for free, most will swallow it-I wont.

 

[maddoc]

I liked the community in Instagram a lot but will quit soon ... their proposal is not my cup of tea ...

 

[Nescio]

Wow! what a crazy thing to do, sell your customers work without crediting them just because they use your service.
If this catches on your Prolab/minilab or cloud service could also want a piece of your pie.
I guess it's about images for free, most will swallow it-I wont.

Almost as crazy as FB paying $1 billion for it...


Nescio

 

[Photo_Smith]

Or anyone wanting to use Face book or buy their shares.

 

[porktaco]

what a bunch of crap

 

[sepiareverb]

I liked the community in Instagram a lot but will quit soon ... their proposal is not my cup of tea ...

+1 from me. Some fun conversations, and many great "postcards" to and from friends went over the air there. I never understood how it was there in the first place with no clear revenue stream.

I'll be making some blurb books of my stream then deleting my images.