Yahoo Bites the Hand that Feeds It, Gets Bitten Back

by Jordan Yerman | February 1, 2007 at 11:11 am

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Yet another bog tech corporation learns that messing with its customers is perhaps not the best idea.

Oh, and if you do not know what "goatse" is, then you must under no circumstances enter it into the search engine of your choice, and definitely not whilst at work.

Yahoo has been pulling in a stream of all Flickr photos tagged “Wii” to display on their Wii portal. The only problem with that is that according to the terms of service on Flickr, the copyright of all Flickr photos remains in the hands of the user.

Naturally on discovering this the Flickr community promptly pwned Yahoo by uploading a barrage of anti-Yahoo photos tagged “wii,” which now fill the first several pages of the Wiiportal.