The Pain and Potential of Making a 180-Degree Policy ShiftPhoto-hosting service Photobucket in May quietly restored third-party hosting of photos, reversing its unpopular year-old policy that required users to pay nearly $400 for hosting privileges. Many irate users claimed their photos were "taken hostage." Hosted photos on blogs, forums and other sites were replaced by an image of a dial indicating the hosted data quota had been surpassed.
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The Pain and Potential of Making a 180-Degree Policy Shift
