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Title: Photobucket accused of blackmail after quietly requiring users to pay $400 a yea
Post by: Senate on July 12, 2017, 01:51:13 pm

Photobucket accused of blackmail after quietly requiring users to pay $400 a year to hotlink

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/4/15919224/photobucket-broken-images-amazon-ebay-etsy-paid-update

Sadly those of us who have hosted images including avatars and forum signatures who used photobucket to host are now screwed. Re-uploading hundreds if not thousands of pictures to a different host and then fixing all the [img] links is a damn disaster. Expect to see a lot of missing pictures and broken links on Argonath and throughout the internet.

Title: Re: Photobucket accused of blackmail after quietly requiring users to pay $400 a yea
Post by: Kessu on July 12, 2017, 01:54:48 pm

Yeah, VCPD's staff list looked quite interesting when the logos were fucked up :D

Title: Re: Photobucket accused of blackmail after quietly requiring users to pay $400 a yea
Post by: Salmonella on July 12, 2017, 05:11:02 pm

PhotoFucket has been horrible since 2009 or so anyway.