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    I guess photobucket is trying to have a going out business sale by charging fees they know are exorbitant that very few will pay. Seems that if they would of charged say, $50 a year, many more would of signed on. I guess photo bucket felt that peoples picture albums are so vital to those that use the service that they can hold these pictures hostage until folks cough up $400 every year. I think they overplayed their hand.

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    I know the Photobucket founders (Darren and Alex) and some of their original programmers. It was a great success story started at the perfect time when everyone was eschewing dot com businesses. It was unique among photo hosting sites in that it allowed hot linking. This became popular for eBay sellers and MySpace users as those sites wouldn't host photos or charged for the privilege.

    Darren and Alex long ago sold the company to Fox Interactive - the same company that bought MySpace.com for about a billion dollars and proceeded to fumble the ball to Facebook. My friends did more than well on their startup. Fox however, did not. Fox sold PB a few years later for rumored pennies on the dollar. The current owners have managed to piss off the internet with their new policy of disabling free hot linking on the billions of photos that they host. Stupid. Just stupid.
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    Steve,

    Interesting context info on photobucket. I didn't know anything about them till the ruckus started.
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