From today's Metafilter thread on Photobucket,
Please Update Your Account to Enable 3rd Party Hosting Imgur really wants to think it's a social network, not a hosting service, so it has a pretty specific paragraph in its
TOS:
Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.
I've only heard of this happening
once, but I still wouldn't count on imgur, at least not if you're big enough for them to notice.
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Hmm, that's kind of strange, since imgur shows a list of link URLs in the sidebar, to make it easy to link to the photo. But it's "kind of" not allowed in their terms of service.
I wondered how they were going to make enough revenue to support the gigantic bandwidth from all those photos.