The depressing part about this is there is now a massive dark hole where information used to be across the internet. Since 2004 I have used Photobucket for many DIY pictures and Product reviews. Like most people I initially loved Photobucket for the lack of ads, as well as ease of use. Over the years Photobucket got complicated with all the silly edit upload features and buggy HTML link codes. Also the advert pop ups were not office friendly, loud and horrendous! At one point I switched to Imageshack and Flickr but I still used Photobucket because it was a free tool that allowed me to convey information to forums and web pages like most people who left informational photos on the internet that helped others. Now to go from free to $400 a year is an insane jump. I think $99.99 would be more reasonable and that was Corpus mistake. He was planning on X amount of people paying $400 to turn a quick profit but way more people would pay $99.99 a year!