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Originally posted by Sushipunk I actually figured out how to download stuff. My initial problem was that when you downloaded the file, it was in a proprietary format that nothing could actually open (called .jpg_original or something). If you just change the file extension back to .jpg it works fine again, and you can host the image somewhere else.

Fucking christ, is that what they did to "encrypt" them? You can just get a batch downloader and file renamer to get all them back and avoid the $400. How not to run a company.

No way, really? That is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Fucking christ, is that what they did to "encrypt" them? You can just get a batch downloader and file renamer to get all them back and avoid the $400. How not to run a company.

I honestly don't get it. Even the most retarded business operator EVER would surely realise that doing something like this is going to piss off literally every free user they have. And $400 is just fucking ridiculous

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Last edited by Sushipunk on Jul-12-2017 at 22:47

This actually feels like a last ditch effort to shift blame because they know they're going to go under.

"Yeah, our business would had been fine, but our asshole customers didn't want to pay $400 for something that was free yesterday and you can get literally for free from any of our competitors. Dicks."

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery This actually feels like a last ditch effort to shift blame because they know they're going to go under. "Yeah, our business would had been fine, but our asshole customers didn't want to pay $400 for something that was free yesterday and you can get literally for free from any of our competitors. Dicks."

Yeah, I was talking to my friend about it a couple of days ago, and joked that maybe they're just tired of running the business and thought "Fuck it, let's go out with a bang and see how much cash we can raise in doing so" lol.

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While I don't like it. It's understandable that hosting pictures for third party sites where there's no ad revenue doesn't make business sense. Theyre the landlord who raises the rent to get rid of bad tenets cough that's you stu.

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow While I don't like it. It's understandable that hosting pictures for third party sites where there's no ad revenue doesn't make business sense. Theyre the landlord who raises the rent to get rid of bad tenets cough that's you stu.

Except like Nik said, literally all of their competitors allow it, completely free. And $400 is just massively excessive, come on.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk And $400 is just massively excessive, come on.

And that too. Putting a price on your service is somewhat understandable, but nobody's going to be paying that price.

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