hotrod80 wrote:
Photobucket has chosen to hold my photos hostage until I pay them $400 a year for third party hosting . I have deleted my account . Feel free to delet my build threads due to no images . I will be researching another host for images and will go from there.
This has been an active topic on the PlanetIsuzoo.com forum (and probably many others lately. This is one of the main reasons NOT to use third party image hosting (photobucket, flikr, etc.), especially on forums like this one, where images can be attached to the posts. In the early days, that was not the case--but since about 2006, this forum software has allowed attachments directly.
So I've probably been annoyingly naggy over the years, about using the upload feature rather than using 3rd party image sites (Sorry!). But this is one of the reasons why. There are others, if anybody wants to hear my rant, but if not, I'll zip it.
I'm curious, will they let you at least download your pics if you decline to pay? I think it's just "hotlinking" (otherwise called "deep linking' or "inline linking") that they want to charge for. Honestly, I'm amazed nobody saw this coming. Inline linking denies them the possibility of revenue, and it's been a
completely unsustainable business model all along. Lots of sites block it, but photobucket has been slow coming around to this option.
Photobucket's explanation (including what they call "hotlinking")
It's affecting sites all over--
Photobucket Just Broke Billions of Photos Across the WebJack
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