PhotoPoint Pictures Available For A Price
from the hold-'em-hostage dept
A lot of people were pissed off when Photopoint shut down without warning anyone. Many people had stored a huge number of digital photos with the service, and suddenly they were all gone. I'm not positive, but I was under the impression they were paying for the service. Anyway, now PhotoPoint is taking a poll to see how (if) they'll give the pictures back. The leading choice is for people to pay $25 to get all their picutres on a CD-ROM. I'm not sure what sort of agreements people had agreed to when they signed up for PhotoPoint, and maybe this falls under the agreement, but it certainly sounds like PhotoPoint is holding the images hostage from their owners.
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More like bankrupcy than ransom
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when you send a video to america's funniest home videos, it becoems their property. this sounds similar. i think theyre got a legit "hostage"
NICE!!!
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