[mvanveen]

This is not unprecedented. We did this years ago with Zooomr. There was a tech crunch post about it: http://techcrunch.com/2006/06/16/why-is-flickr-afraid-of-zoo...

Many Flickr users were not happy when they discovered that the ability to migrate their accounts was considered "burn[ing] bandwidth and CPU cycles."

My co-founder, Kris, was quoted with the following:

> Tate from Zooomr says that the exports are a cost of doing business, that Web 2.0 is where “the roach motel stops” and that Zooomr will always make it easy for their customers to take their data elsewhere

Props to Snapjoy for creating an awesome product and giving people freedom. I hope that you guys get your license key back!

[lurker17]

Snapjoy doesn't give people freedom, it just takes over from Flickr. Flickr gives people more freedom, by letting users download their files.