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		bad_user on Dec 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy All of them did it. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram. First they get popular, then when they're big enough having the luxury of lock-in, they turn to fucking the same users that made them popular. Web 2.0 - taking the milk out of stupid cows that should have known better.

_delirium on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

Even further back, look at what Gracenote did with CDDB, crowdsourcing the data as a community project, up until they decided to lock it up.

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