Why the hostility toward photobucket? The gravy train had to end some time. I don't see how they have done anything wrong here. Somewhere, there is a board meeting that's going something like this:
"Well, we lost 395485 millionty users, and the entire Internet hates us"
"And?"
"we are actually making money..."
Well, if you'd actually been reading the thread, you'd have seen that there's a great amount of angst with the way this WASN'T announced. The TOS were changed, but to find out about this particular change you needed to drill down multiple levels into their user agreements.
Then there's also the fact that PB has apparently made it exceedingly difficult to get your photos off their site if you no longer want to host them there.
Then there's also the fact that apparently little to none of this was discussed with PB's staff before hand, and the people responsible for responding to the users, even the paying users, didn't know what to say when the complaints started rolling in.