Photobucket recently asked for me to pay for service because they don't do free anymore. I was hosting an old, old forum signature and little else, it was a nic

Photobucket recently asked for me to pay for service because they don't do free anymore. I was hosting an old, old forum signature and little else, it was a nice bit of nostalgia. I made sure the backed-up copy on my machine was ok. Then I purged my bucket and am proceeding to delete my long-stagnant account. Can't fault them for trying to make money but it sure seems capitalism is a big fan of entropy. And it's good to remember that you see your data as an asset, while it's aways a liability for a company providing services; free, paid, or otherwise. If I didn't happen to have the same email, I wouldn't have received the account deletion email to even check what was in there (and reset my password). A whole lot of early social internet content is gonna get poofed quite soon.