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Photobucket - our photos held to ransom
Bob K:
Many of us use Photobucket to store the images we use to illustrate our postings on Mayhem. There has previously not been a problem with this. Their site is free for the purpose of storing images for sharing photos.
However, I have just received notification that they have changed their terms of service to disallow "3rd Party Hosting" unless you upgrade your previously free account to one costing $99.99 a year.
The new message on Photobucket states . . .
"We have noticed that you have been using Photobucket for 3rd Party Hosting.
Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting * for your current account level.
*What is 3rd Party Hosting?
Alternatively referred to as inline linking, "hotlinking" is the action of linking to an image or object on another server. An example of hotlinking would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image that you uploaded to your Photobucket account so it will appear on a different website like Etsy, eBay auction listings, blogs, forum messages, etc. "
Does this mean that Photobucket will now pull the plug on any "member" that links their photos on Model Boat Mayhem unless they agree to pay almost a hundred US Dollars a year for the privilege?
Most of the photos on Mayhem could suddenly disappear ?
ballastanksian:
If 'customers' who use the service do not pay up then it is likely that images above a certain number will dissapear. I have been paying for my Imageshack account for about three years now and so far the price has not increased hugely, but obviously one keeps an eye out periodically. They said that you can store up to a certain number of images for free, but that naturally means you have to ration out your storage.
Bob K:
It is not the quantity. I am only using one percent of my free hosting account. It is that they appear to have decided to inflict a heavy surcharge on anyone using Photobucket for anything other than private use.
Many of us use Photobucket. Even if I agree to this new "ransomware" charge a large number of postings on Mayhem could suddenly be devoid of photographic illustrations.
Once one major image hosting site is seen to be getting away with this all the others will follow suit.
Bob K:
Well, that's it. All the images I had previously posted on Mayhem have now been replaced by an illustration saying I have broken their new terms and conditions, and thus the image intended will not be displayed.
Damned Ransomware <*<
There is no way I know to retrospectively edit every post with a new image hosted elsewhere.
What do we all this of this conduct ?
How many others are / will be affected ?
Baldrick:
--- Quote from: Bob K on June 29, 2017, 09:17:54 pm ---Well, that's it. All the images I had previously posted on Mayhem have now been replaced by an illustration saying I have broken their new terms and conditions, and thus the image intended will not be displayed.
Damned Ransomware <*<
There is no way I know to retrospectively edit every post with a new image hosted elsewhere.
What do we all think of this conduct ?
How many others are / will be affected ?
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Google: photobucket 3rd party hosting, their is pages of it ! Also Google photo bucket Alternatives.
Photo bucket will have gone down the tubes in short time
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