Photobucket charging for 3rd party hosting

[deeda]

I saw this on another fish forum that PhotoBucket has changed their TOS and will lock your photos for use on forums, etc. unless you pay almost $400 per year for that privilege.

You can still upload and look at your pics for free but can't post them on forums such as this.

Just a heads up to everyone!!

 

[kendragon]

What about photo already posted?. Will they zap it or back charge? Sucks.

 

[deeda]

What is happening to previously copied or imbedded photos is that some people are saying that the pic is shown as not available or has a question mark on it so it's not viewable.

I have checked some of my own PB pics and so far they are still good on the various fish forums. I have gone to my PB account and downloaded some of my album pics that I had lost due to a previous computer failure so they are on my new laptop now.

I did a quick PhotoBucket policy change search and found a lot of complaints about the switch and saw the new policy update when I logged into my PB account.

It's possible that either I'm not affected because I don't have that many pics or that they just haven't got to me yet.

 

[krichardson]

I'm clearly missing something but I don't see why the service is needed in the first place when a member can simply upload their photos to the site directly from their device.

 

[krichardson]

I'm clearly missing something but I don't see why the service is needed in the first place when a member can simply upload their photos to the site directly from their device.

Four hundred bucks....hah!

 

[kendragon]

Mine are still good too. May be they are too ugly to charge. Wait a miniute....aren't they making money off our photos when they sell it to others?

 

[kendragon]

I'm clearly missing something but I don't see why the service is needed in the first place when a member can simply upload their photos to the site directly from their device.

That's what I use to do but when they upgraded the site, I was not able too. How do you upload to the site.

 

[krichardson]

That's what I use to do but when they upgraded the site, I was not able too. How do you upload to the site.

I do it the same way as before the upgrade;tap upload a file,tap on documents,select either camera photos or downloads,tap desired photo,tap post reply.

 

[Warborg]

I'm clearly missing something but I don't see why the service is needed in the first place when a member can simply upload their photos to the site directly from their device.

Not all sites allow you to upload photos

 

[krichardson]

Not all sites allow you to upload photos

I don't see why not but luckily the four sites,including this one I am involved with haven't given me any problems doing so.