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  1. I am very sorry that you have lost control over your online life. I know that you have done nothing to deserve such a thing. However, it seems that you have a misunderstanding over my role in this mess. My name is included in the actual, legitimate Instagram app (if you have somehow managed to install an "illegal third party" Instagram app, my condolences).
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  3. I am responsible for writing an independent piece of code called "curl". The job of curl is to download files off the internet. It could be any type of file. The reason why I wrote curl is simple: We needed a way to download files off the internet. As you can see, the goal behind curl was simple, yet important: We need to download data off the internet whether that data is an email, picture, or even a video.
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  5. Also, I do not work for Instagram. I have developed curl to be an independent project, that other applications can command curl to download the file on the commanding app's behalf when it needs a file to be downloaded. This way a application developer does not need to write their own code for downloading files. Thus, curl is considered to be a "library". Computers don't magically know how to download files off the internet. Someone had to write the code, and that was me. For example, curl is even included in Apple's OSX. How else does the updater download the files it needs, or the Mac App Store downloads the new app you want to use?
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  7. Instagram uses many libraries. There is one for displating pictures, one for playing sound, and one for plating videos as well. Instagram wants to be a social network. Thus, Instagram uses libraries in order to skip writing some code for fundamental things (such as displaying pictures) in order to focus on the actual social networking code. There are also many other libraries that they apparently use. I only know this fact from the same way you got my name. I looked at the same section where they publicly stated they used curl in the Instagram app. They are publicly giving me credit in exchange for using curl. Instagram *did not* ask for permission for using curl code in their project. But that is OK, as they gave me credit for the code.
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