Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
The speedometer graphic on the blocked pictures suggests to me that they have a per-account bandwidth limit that kicks in at some arbitrary point. If you only have a few pictures, and/or they are not heavily linked to other sites, you simply may not have hit that limit yet. But if you have a lot of pictures, and/or heavily linked, and/or heavily trafficed, you may hit that limit and get blocked until you cough up the ransom money.
I think this is probably it. I may have~100 pics there but I've only used it for forum posts. I'm not going to wait around for the graphic to show, I'm going to flickr. I tried to sign up for a new account there but it told me I already had an account so I must have signed up in the past and forgot.