forteller Published on August 1st, 2007
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Ipernity and original size, why so restrictive?

Wednesday August 1st, 2007 at 07:34PM

Dear Ipernity!

I love this service, and I think you've done a great job with it! Finally I have found a better place for my pictures than Flickr!

But there is one thing that is bothering me; Why do you demand that people log in before they can see the original sized version of my creative commons licensed photos, and why do I have to be a pro to see the original sized version of non-CCed photos?

It is not your pictures to do what you want with, and when I spend so much of my monthly bandwidth uploading the original sized version of the photos, I do that because I want people to be able to see and enjoy them, not to make you money. Especially when I license them under a Creative Commons license, you should not make the choice for me of who should, and who should not, be able to see the largest size of my photos.

I am thinking about becoming a pro member myself, because I really, really like this place, and I think you've done a lot of things right, but I'm not quite there yet, and this is one of the things that makes me think twice about it.

Until you change this practice I will add a link to the original size in the comment field of all my photos.

I know that you provide this excellent service free of charge, and fully understand that you need to make money somehow, but this is not the way to go about it!

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Team ipernitypro says:
This is a choice we made. It's difficult to find the right balance between free / members only / pro only services, according to our convictions, market, competitors. What can I say more? Lots of people don't use CC licences, so this criterion is not relevant to decide whether we allow access to originals or not. We provide now big sizes which are big enough to be viewed on a display.
I hope you'll still enjoy ipernity!
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
forteller replies:
Hi Ipernity. Thanks so much for your very quick reply, I really appreciate that! I've been doing some more thinking, and I've come to the conclusion that I overreacted in regards to this issue. I mean, at least you, in contrast to other services/sites (which shall remain unnamed), let us upload as large images as we want. And what's worse, not letting us upload big pictures, or not letting others see those big pictures. I'd take the latter any day.

I'm pretty sure I'll buy a pro membership any day now.. :)
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

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