PB acquired by Fox Corp on May30 ($300M). See: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/photobucket#/entity
Amazon and Ebay most heavily affected. Hopefully they'll have the clout to put this to bed before the weekend.
Keep an eye on TheVerge, Wired, WSJ etc.

I am available to help with any transitions, scraping or scripting.
I am also available to be tapped for crowd funding or paid membership ;-)

Jurgen

: There's a fair chance people may have already heard about this but
: the corporate idiots at Photobucket have WITHOUT WARNING,
: suddenly changed their policy & usage.
: They are now asking $40 a month to use their services.
: Big deal i hear the crowd saying, use an alternative service. Well
: it is a big deal as it means that all photobucket photos loaded
: onto this forum over the years are no longer viewable unless the
: user that originally uploaded the photo pays Photobuckets
: monthly ransom.
: This means that we will be seeing a lot more photos on this forum
: archive that look like this
:

: A damn shame in my eyes as there is no way all contributors from
: our glorious past are going to stand for the extortion tactics
: of evil Photobucket.
: I have to admit it really cheeses me off as my entire history of
: contribution to this fine forum will be lost to corporate greed.
: I will not swallow that level of ignorance or lack of consideration
: for a customer. I will be taking my photos elsewhere & i
: hope the masses do the same thing. Screw Photobucket i hope they
: lose every customer they ever had & go bankrupt !!

: Steaming angry - Darren