Twitpic Overreacts To Competitor's Tool That Helps Export Data
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 01 July 2010
Twitpic, an online service for easily posting pictures to Twitter, is apparently quite upset that Posterous, an online blogging platform, has set up an automated system to export your own photos from TwitPic to Posterous. As soon as the exporter was announced, Twitpic not only blocked Posterous's tool, but got the lawyers involved.
The uploaded pictures are the only value the twits have. From their point of view, it makes perfect sense to hunt down everybody who tries to move that content. The twits have no copyright over the pictures however, and the users can do with their data what they want.