Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos

hugheseyau writes "Earlier, we discussed news that Instagram introduced a new version of their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. The changes seemed to allow Instagram to sell users' photos, and many users were upset. Instagram now says 'it is not our intention to sell your photos' and that 'users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos.' This is good news for Instagram users." And so closes another chapter of "We Let Lawyers Write a Legal Document and The Internet Freaked Out."

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We Won't Sell YOUR Photos

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

They are OURS, fools!

Re:We Won't Sell YOUR Photos

[sneakyimp]

All your photo are belong to US.

"We won't SELL your photos..."

[TuringTest]

"...we'll only RENT them for the duration of an ad campaign".

Re:"We won't SELL your photos..."

[DanielRavenNest]

Time to open the Office of Defense Intelligence Security Investigation

They would, of course

[Anonymous Coward]

However there has yet to be a picture on Instragram that's worth paying for.

Fatal flaw with biological storage

[Dogtanian]

I actually had a great, if somewhat unusual, method of backing up my photographs- I got a deer to memorise them. I know it sounds weird, but it turned out to be quite effective, at least with the males (does, on the other hand, were less reliable). I trained it to understand basic commands and in response, it scratched out a basic reproduction of the requested image, eventually improving to quite impressive quality after a period of time.

In this way, I came to realise that I was using their brain as a sort of basic computer memory. This worked very well until I realised that my contract with the owner of the deer meant he had the right to reuse anything they had memorised.

Of course, this was not acceptable, so I no longer store my photos in stag RAM.

Re:Fatal flaw with biological storage

[causality]

I actually had a great, if somewhat unusual, method of backing up my photographs- I got a deer to memorise them. I know it sounds weird, but it turned out to be quite effective, at least with the males (does, on the other hand, were less reliable). I trained it to understand basic commands and in response, it scratched out a basic reproduction of the requested image, eventually improving to quite impressive quality after a period of time. In this way, I came to realise that I was using their brain as a sort of basic computer memory. This worked very well until I realised that my contract with the owner of the deer meant he had the right to reuse anything they had memorised. Of course, this was not acceptable, so I no longer store my photos in stag RAM.

This is why drugs are not for everyone.

Re:The First Rule

[ArcadeMan]

Rule of Acquisition #5: If you can't break a contract, bend it.