{"id":2156,"date":"2011-04-08T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:46:11","slug":"flickr-pro-holds-photos-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/flickr-pro-holds-photos-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;Flickr Pro Holds Photos Hostage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/04\/08\/i-wont-use-flickr-until-they-release-my-photo-hostages\/\">Michael Arrington<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My Pro account expired at some point, probably because I missed an email or my credit card number changed. I wasn\u2019t using Flickr as much, having moved more to Facebook because of the structured people tagging feature. But then one day I was searching for an old treasured photo that existed only on Flickr and on the hard drive of some long forgotten and discarded mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Flickr won\u2019t show me that photo. If your pro account expires only your last 200 photos are shown. The only way I can get access to that photo is by paying the Pro fee.<\/p>\n<p>That is absolutely no way to treat a customer.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn\u2019t make sense for Flickr. Even though I uploaded those photos as a Pro customer, I can\u2019t see them any more. It\u2019s not that they aren\u2019t just displayed on my public profile, I can\u2019t access them in account settings, either. And even the ones that are displayed are only downloadable in a smaller resized version. Originals are held hostage as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and here&#8217;s the key line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People certainly\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t\u00a0get comfortable using Flickr as a repository for their photos over the years, because unless you pay the Pro fee, you\u2019ll lose them forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly. Just as NO ONE should get\u00a0comfortable\u00a0using ANY service as a repository. Flickr, Box.net, SugarSync, Mozy, Google Apps, Gmail, Facebook, YouTube. Anyone that sends a piece of content to these services with no backup at home on a \u00a0hard drive is going to deal with this. I believe in paying for my 4 terabyte RAID\u00a0array\u00a0once and putting whatever I want on there. I keep a duplicate at work for redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>Paying $99 for MobileMe, $49 for Googla Apps, $25 for Flickr, $25 for Mozy, $49 for SugarSync, $99 for Amazon Cloud Storage and another $99 to Box.net is\u00a0ludicrous\u00a0not because it&#8217;s not convenient. I pay for all of these services because they are convenient but to think that that data is still yours once you stop paying is ridiculous. You pay for the data, stop paying and it&#8217;s no longer yours.<\/p>\n<p>Arrington isn&#8217;t wrong in his argument. This is a problem with all cloud services and I have made it clear that no one should put their faith in these services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Arrington: My Pro account expired at some point, probably because I missed an email or my credit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-yM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4002,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/flickr-pro-thanks\/","url_meta":{"origin":2156,"position":0},"title":"Flickr Pro Thanks","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Talk about a thank you coming WAY too late but I never really publicly thanked the people that kept my Flickr Pro account alive for so many years. 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