• Amazon images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668[/url]
Oh wow.... I can see this going well for Shitbucket
I can see photobucket is going out of business
looks like facepunch better pay up [t]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/258087425346240513/331179806534270978/title.png[/t]
I was not kidding when I said Photobucket threw themselves under the bus. Did they really have no fucking clue how many people use them? They better backtrack on this or there's absolutely no hope for them. [quote]But one expert said the public needed to be aware of the risks of relying on any free image service.[/quote] Here is the thing. When I first started using Photobucket they had a pretty tight limit on monthly bandwidth (and you only had I think 64mb of image space) but you could remove the cap (and get something like 10gb of storage space) if you paid something like $4 a month which is still pretty damn reasonable. At some point however in the last five years they lifted that and as a result free accounts could use as much bandwidth as they wanted. Made the service much more attractive but they had to make that money by other means so they cranked up the number of ads. I guess that was not working (because surprise, nobody likes intrusive ads and flash popups) so they thought "gee, lets just brickwall EVERYONE".....but did they not think about what a bad idea that was??
The zero notice is really what kills it.
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