Millions of Photobuckets users use the service to share images in online forums and other venues, and very few of those users are generating income from their usage. It's important to note however, that this change isn't just affecting users who sell things on eBay or host images for blogs. We forget that real humans built the things we're using a real person came up with a way to make it work and wrote the code for it to function and pays for the servers our files are stored on and every month they have bills to pay and a family to feed just like we do. Most people don't want to have to pay to have their blogs or images hosted or their files shared or their physical products sold. I am 100% guilty of always trying to get free shipping when I make a purchase online, even though I know that SOMEONE has to pay that shipping cost. We get that we have to pay for milk at the grocery store, but the average person gets pretty upset when they have to pay for any sort of online service. Here's the deal, the Internet has numbed us to the idea that things cost money. So they made this change and they did it in a messy way and now their users are freaking out. I'm sure the execs for the site looked at the number of users who used their free service to generate personal revenue and realized that it's pretty crazy for a company to generate revenue for others for free. But they haven't done anything criminal or violated any user agreements that I'm aware of. They sure as hell should have better pricing ( Zenfolio charges like $60/year for unlimited image hosting AND you can make an actual website for example). I'm not defending Photobucket, they could have and should have gone about this change in a much more up-front and open manner. What people are failing to realize is that you get what you pay for (or in this case, don't pay for). I get why people are upset they feel like their images are THEIR images and, by disabling the links to those images, Photobucket has stolen from them. What everyone should really take away from this is the inherent danger that comes with relying on a free service for anything in your life, let alone for things you need to conduct your business.

Some people are even going so far as to call Photobucket's new policy 'ransomware' (spoiler alert: it's not) and claiming that the image hosting company's policy change is illegal (second spoiler alert: also not). There's plenty to be upset about here: the somewhat ridiculous price Photobucket is charging for their hosting service, the complete lack of communication to users who have relied on the service for years, the fact that migrating to a different service is a huge pain that won't fix all of your links. Thanks for messing up my #blog, no pre warning or communication! Excellent work! 😡😡😡 #photobucket /IsNc28tfsk- Nonsinthetik July 4, 2017

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