Has photobucket stepped on their whanger

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

Well it appears that photobucket's new owners got a bit greedy.

**LINK**

Good luck with all your hard work and trust to the site.

* Danny M *

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

$399 charge to host photos to 3rd party sites

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Yes, they are basically holding 10 years' worth of my pictures posted on various forums to ransom, blocking them unitl I agree to pay them the US$399. Not the terms and conditions I signed up for. And I even paid $30 a year for extra bandwidth when my linked images on a certain thread exceeded the free useage limit for a while. As many of the images are in some in depth "how to" threads on specialized classic bike forums, used as a reference by countless forum users restoring similar bikes, Photobucket's business model basically amounts to blackmail. So I won't be paying up.

Saw one article in the business news section of News.com.au referring to it as "corporate suicide". http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/technology/amazon-ebay-images-held-to-ransom-by-photobucket/news-story/f5b3efdaa1dfd7cb5c9a62e6ec2520c6

Shame about the countless thousands of useless threads on forums such as this one that no longer have the essential pics to go with them though.

But I expect there will be a lot more of it in the next year or three as Facebook and Google are predicted to hoover up 85 per cent of all online advertising between them, leaving specialist websites, forums and pic hosting sites that depend on adverts for revenue in much the same position as the newspaper and magazine industry over the past few years. 

The internet will end up a totally homogenized mass of selfies, cute cat pictures and "what I had for breakfast this morning". Deviation will not be tolerated because there is not enough profit in it.

That's not what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the internet, I'm sure.

 

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[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Posted by Hopper on 07/07/2017 11:32:29:

 

Shame about the countless thousands of useless threads on forums such as this one that no longer have the essential pics to go with them though.

As I siad in the other thread a few days back about Photobucket. All the images are still there for those that really need to follow a thread, just need right clicking and then opening in another tab which will open on their site. Bit of a PITA but they are still viewable. By abandoning photobucket your account will be closed in 12 months due to no activity and then you will have caused the images to be completely lost.

I am going to lock this thread now and refer people back to the other one.

Edited By JasonB on 07/07/2017 12:20:28

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