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CC-licensing your Flickr account opens you up to weird minor feelings of violation.
It kind of freaks me out to see my cat's picture on a spamblog.
I didn't just randomly run across a picture of the cat - I was googling for my Flickr username to see what weird stuff people had been using off it recently. For some reason my most popular Flickr image ever is a photo of some lawnmowers that I took in a Lowes. It keeps getting used in heavily SEO-optimized articles discussing how to pick out a lawnmower, or thin affiliates pointing to sites that sell lawnmowers, or scraped Yahoo! Answers threads about whether you really need to mow your lawn.
(There are, in fact, non-evil parties using my photos, but the spammers are really all over a few of them.)
I didn't just randomly run across a picture of the cat - I was googling for my Flickr username to see what weird stuff people had been using off it recently. For some reason my most popular Flickr image ever is a photo of some lawnmowers that I took in a Lowes. It keeps getting used in heavily SEO-optimized articles discussing how to pick out a lawnmower, or thin affiliates pointing to sites that sell lawnmowers, or scraped Yahoo! Answers threads about whether you really need to mow your lawn.
(There are, in fact, non-evil parties using my photos, but the spammers are really all over a few of them.)