"If Flickr will allow up to 150 MB of video to be uploaded, I should then be able to upload my 27 MB Panoramas!"
Now that Flickr has video, some existing Flickr members aren’t feeling too happy. While some space for their photos, others argue that video will turn this photo sharing website into another MySpace or YouTube.
There are at least two groups formed on Flickr (with over 7,000 members) that are against the idea of adding videos in Flickr - they have also put up a petition asking Flickr staff to roll-back the video feature.
Don’t think that will ever happen and its quite normal for people to protest change but there are some reasonable arguments - "We don’t need another YouTube! I have nothing against YouTube, I just don’t want to see all the $*#% that on there to wind up on Flickr"
Chris: "Now do we have to worry server problems with all the videos being uploaded and viewed?"
Ortiz: "I understand the purpose of video on Flickr…Yahoo! wanted a competitive video site to Google’s YouTube. But why do they have to ruin Flickr in the process?"
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/video/keep-flickr-pure-anti-video-protests-erupt-on-flickr/2896/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
First they will form a group to complain that they want videos in Flickr, and now they are forming a group to protest it. They should make up their minds. :)
Written by Chris on 04.09.08
Sure, now people can take videos from other websites that they do NOT own the copyright to, and then UPLOAD them to flickr as their own. Whynot? ;-(
Adam
Written by Adam / AcmePhoto on 04.10.08
I’ve been having a lot of problems viewing photos. I’ve enjoyed using Flickr in the past year, but there are other photo sharing sites I can use, if Yahoo wants to use all of their bandwidth for video.
Written by Aubrey Collins on 04.28.08