I really like the service but PLEASE please do not strip all metadata out of photos uploaded by your users.
Stripping out the EXIF/IPTC copyright information creates an orphan work (no apparent creator), makes it harder to track down copyright infringements, and may be DMCA violation (http://www.flickr.com/groups/nomorefreephotos/discuss/721576...). Ideally, you should strip out all the non-copyright EXIF fields (aperture, camera make etc) but leave the copyright info.
EXIF stripping is one of the subtle crimes us web developers have committed against content creators and it's mostly out of laziness: a few hundred bytes of copyright info will not kill us, our users or our servers.
Stripping out the EXIF/IPTC copyright information creates an orphan work (no apparent creator), makes it harder to track down copyright infringements, and may be DMCA violation (http://www.flickr.com/groups/nomorefreephotos/discuss/721576...). Ideally, you should strip out all the non-copyright EXIF fields (aperture, camera make etc) but leave the copyright info.
EXIF stripping is one of the subtle crimes us web developers have committed against content creators and it's mostly out of laziness: a few hundred bytes of copyright info will not kill us, our users or our servers.