I am a paying Photobucket user, and this change has me absolutely livid. I still seem to be covered with my current plan (my pictures haven't vanished yet), but when I get billed again I am uncertain if it will change. I write a series using The Sims which uses images, and this change now means I have no idea how I am going to host the hundreds of pictures I have.
I do not get billed again until March next year, so I am also happy to host in the meantime if it is true that I am not affected. I also got access to the images for dokuga_contest via visiting the albums themselves (
here), and I would be happy to save them all to my hard drive and host them if that is acceptable and/or needed.
EDIT: I have contacted Photobucket to find out details about how the changes effect me.