[Sirrotica]

Here's the notice they sent me AFTER they shut off my pictures about a week previous to the notice.

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This is the message I replied to them, not that it will make any difference, not that anyone will read it, but it made me feel better......................

You have to be joking, do you really think any sane person would pay your ransom?

You have also rendered many technical threads much less helpful by pulling the pictures on thousands of websites on the www.
The greed your company has shown with total disregard for the people you chose to give free accounts to and the disruption you have caused to millions of threads is astounding. Your associates have killed the goodwill you fostered by offering free accounts then withdrawing the offer in order to extort money from the people that took you up on the free account offer.

A terrible decision on your part, maybe you would reconsider a more reasonable monthly fee, I have seen many people that would be open to a much smaller fee to restore their pictures to vital threads all over the www. In the quest to extort money from people you offered free accounts to you have created so much bad publicity for yourselves it is unprecedented.

Sincerly, Brad Yost