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Because it’s the holidays and people will sue anything and everything is horrible, a California Instagram user has filed a class action lawsuit over that terms of service kerfuffle last week. Needless to say, this is dumb.
While Instagram likely overreached by claiming it could receive compensation by selling your photos for companies who may want to advertise with them, it quickly recanted. Not only that, but the terms of service that users took such issue with never even had a chance to go into effect.
So why the suit? Because Instagram is still insisting that it might — heavens forbid — show you ads. And if you decide to leave the service over it, you forfeit all your old photos.
Let’s be clear about one thing: there’s no way this lawsuit goes anywhere. At all. Instagram is a company, not a public utility. Serving you ads is the only way it can make money. It’s the price you pay for all those fancy filters. If you don’t like it, leave. The end. [Reuters]
The best part of this is that people are in a rage about instagrams new (now redacted) policy on selling pictures to advertisers, when most people post their instagram pics on facebook who’s policy is currently actually WORSE than the proposed instagram policy. Whatever you post on facebook is theirs, ofcourse they’ve said that they WONT sell your pictures, they just want to keep the rights to all your stuff.. just in case…
I’m a little surprised their new Ts & Cs didn’t include something prohibiting class action suits, as they seem to have been cropping up in other services of late.