Stan wrote:Exactly what I told PB..they are inspired by the ransomware terrorist criminals. THEIR whole reason to exist was for the public to post photos on the net. Who the hell needed them to store photos really? You have your own PC to do that. For PB to now act like THEY were being taken advantage of is laughable.
In today climate..business now feel emboldened to all charge $800 for a cancer pill that cost 8 cents to make. I see broken links all over the internet. Its PB teaching us a lesson to never have even used their services to begin with.
Well, I can understand why someone would use a source other than their own computer for pics. When my computer crashed and burned the first time, I lost a lot of photos that were irreplaceable. I did have an external hard drive, but unbeknownst to me, it crapped out too. Surprise! Ha! I could have solved the problem with a cheap memory stick, and backed up my photos there - but I was too technologically impaired/challenged to know that at the time. The 2nd computer crash and burn - I took my old computer drive to the store where I got my brand new computer, and they recovered all my photos I had there and put them on a memory stick for me.
I figure my new computer has about at least several more years before it will die, and by then I'll have bought another external hard drive to store all my pics on - or... just get a few memory sticks and periodically update them with my ever growing photo files.
In any case, having the photos stored somewhere else on the net is another solution. No, I've never used PB or anything else like it.
As far as charging for a previously free service... that's not rocket science. Give people something for free. Get them to depend on it. Then, start charging. Some will leave, who cares? Some will stay... winner-winner, chicken-dinner.