It's being talked about here too...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level.

*What is 3rd Party Hosting?
Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.

Which I find rather amusing as that's pretty much what the internet is all about, links to other sites. Either to take you there, or to show you something from that site.
You have to buy the equipment to use the internet. You have to pay for the access/data. And now they want you to pay to use one of the most basic functions of the internet, embedding images.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level.

*What is 3rd Party Hosting?
Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.

Which I find rather amusing as that's pretty much what the internet is all about, links to other sites. Either to take you there, or to show you something from that site.
You have to buy the equipment to use the internet. You have to pay for the access/data. And now they want you to pay to use one of the most basic functions of the internet, embedding images.

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

If you actually read that definition of Net Neutrality, you'll see that it has nothing to do with what Photobucket is doing.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

If you actually read that definition of Net Neutrality, you'll see that it has nothing to do with what Photobucket is doing.

Pics are content, and now to display them one is being charged to do so.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Pics are content, and now to display them one is being charged to do so.

Net Neutrality is about not impeding or nor priortising different types of data that pass through the internet, not whether or not a web site wants to charge their users.
The charge is by the provider; not by an ISP, phone company or data backbone provider.
And as none of those 3 are impeding or priortising Photobucket traffic, hence it has absolutely nothing to do with Net Neutrality in any way shape or form. No matter how much you might think it does, it doesn't make it so.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

If you actually read that definition of Net Neutrality, you'll see that it has nothing to do with what Photobucket is doing.

True.
In the case of Photobucket it's about distributing and storing data no matter what content it is.
I have always wonder why so many people thinks that "free information" is something that you can get without a cost.

I have always wonder why so many people thinks that "free information" is something that you can get without a cost.

Because so many companies give it away for free (until they realise that they can't make any money from the ads).

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Grant
Darwin NT

I have always wonder why so many people thinks that "free information" is something that you can get without a cost.

Because so many companies give it away for free (until they realise that they can't make any money from the ads).

Yes. In some sense you could call it trolling.
Sooner or later there are people that bite.

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

If you actually read that definition of Net Neutrality, you'll see that it has nothing to do with what Photobucket is doing.

True.
In the case of Photobucket it's about distributing and storing data no matter what content it is.
I have always wonder why so many people thinks that "free information" is something that you can get without a cost.

It was supposed to be covered by ads, but even with adblock plus disabled on their website, I've seen no ads, weird.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

It will be interesting to see how long this new regime lasts at Photobucket. Any bets that they might be forced to retract and rethink, and when?

Who knows, right now there is FB, like so. That's a 19" tray table, which is also My dinner table too. Bigger than the ol'rust bucket too.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I suspect it will last for a l-o-n-g time as they will see an increase in their income stream, a reduction in their expenditure due to needing less disc space, lower data transfer charges all due to the reduction in the number of free accounts.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I tried downloading a folder of pics to My hdd, it started, then nothing.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I tried downloading a folder of pics to My hdd, it started, then nothing.

"Here goes nothing" comes to mind.

I tried downloading a folder of pics to My hdd, it started, then nothing.

Whilst I am fairly sure all my pics on PB are saved elsewhere I decided to download my folders as a precaution.

Some worked first time others took 4 or 5 attempts.

As I had over 30 folders and over 1200 pictures it has taken a while!!

Photobucket still works for me. I don't have a pay-for account there !!

Photobucket still works for me. I don't have a pay-for account there !!

Well apparently they didn't get to me for nearly a week so I suppose that either your turn will come, or you have somehow slipped through the net!

In which case you are lucky, I have been posting pictures to several forums for many years now over 1200 pictures, all have gone.

Some I could replace but I just do not have that sort of time.

If they really wanted to convert their free customers to paying ones, this was not the way to go about it!!

Photobucket still works for me. I don't have a pay-for account there !!

Well apparently they didn't get to me for nearly a week so I suppose that either your turn will come, or you have somehow slipped through the net!

In which case you are lucky, I have been posting pictures to several forums for many years now over 1200 pictures, all have gone.

Some I could replace but I just do not have that sort of time.

If they really wanted to convert their free customers to paying ones, this was not the way to go about it!!

+1

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

If they really wanted to convert their free customers to paying ones, this was not the way to go about it!!

I agree. It's shockingly bad manners the method they've chosen. I would think a major decision like this would be carefully thought out by a team of people at the company, but it's as if one person in charge just said the heck with it, and pulled the trigger.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

If they really wanted to convert their free customers to paying ones, this was not the way to go about it!!

I agree. It's shockingly bad manners the method they've chosen. I would think a major decision like this would be carefully thought out by a team of people at the company, but it's as if one person in charge just said the heck with it, and pulled the trigger.

This reminds me of Martin Shkreli, jacking up the price of medications to something ridiculous.

Steve

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