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I don't think it's going to affect too many people.

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Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, auction listing, blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.

And I would think it to be quite common for users of an image hosting site to embed images into a forum.

Not all forums host images themselves (pcqanda.com does).
And even if they do, there are still those who will link images from an image hosting site rather then upload directly to here.





One is hosted elsewhere.
One is uploaded & hosted here.

To have Photobucket come along, out of the blue & break any & all forums that have images embedded from them is a crock.