An involved email from the bucket today.
Are my pictures still safe?
Yes! All your photos are still available by logging into your Photobucket Account. Photobucket has only restricted the ability to view your photos on 3rd party sites.
What is hard to understand is how it's been going on for so long without payback. I'd be fine with a nominal charge but I just want to know
first.
A lot of data.
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