When Google Maps announced they were going to start charging it was exactly like getting AIDS.
...Maybe don't compare losing API access to being a Cancer patient. This isn't going to kill you, or financially bankrupt you, or destroy your family...
...Maybe don't compare losing API access to being a Cancer patient. This isn't going to kill you, or financially bankrupt you, or destroy your family...
That's an unfair assessment. In same cases perhaps, but the core issues is that Twitter et al offer certain types of access and then revoke it. If this developer had reverse-engineered their API and they closed the loophole, leeching would be a more relevant term.