I read the flickr TOS. I don't think this violates it.
How is this a dick move? Get over yourself. They're valuing the company at $1.1 Billion. If you can actually drain any significant amount of their resources then sure it's a dick move, but crazy impressive.
Besides, you really think Yahoo! would be so upset that hackers are using their site for a public CDN? Sure they might make a big fuss, but they probably would think it's cool too. Afterall, flickr started as an online game. Who's to say they won't pivot again?
Further, as much as anyone wants to complain about the downfall of hacker news quality, this has made me more cynical than anyone's nit or snark or trolling.
You can't use Flickr as a public CDN AFAIK. Their terms require if you use flickr to host an image displayed in another page that page must provide a link to the photo's page on flickr.
Flickr also only allows photos, illustrations and screenshots. (and video). Nothing else.
These terms are not spelled out in the ToS but in their community guidelines and faq
There are plenty of examples of people having their accounts closed for not following these rules.
How is this a dick move? Get over yourself. They're valuing the company at $1.1 Billion. If you can actually drain any significant amount of their resources then sure it's a dick move, but crazy impressive.
Besides, you really think Yahoo! would be so upset that hackers are using their site for a public CDN? Sure they might make a big fuss, but they probably would think it's cool too. Afterall, flickr started as an online game. Who's to say they won't pivot again?
Further, as much as anyone wants to complain about the downfall of hacker news quality, this has made me more cynical than anyone's nit or snark or trolling.