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What the fuck is up with people nowadays? The internet isn't free. People pay for it, to put up websites and IRC networks and the like. Everything you're enjoying for free, somebody is paying for. And there are so many people expecting everything to be free, and it is so shit. Hello? Privately owned website? The owner can do what he or she wants with their website, including stopping offering a certain service if the costs become too much to bear.
In the specific: I've been wandering around the internet a bit (I'm bored, so sue me), and I stumbled on fotolog again (via this metafilter post; first time had been a week or so ago, via a NYT article [reg. req.]). They've since gone from a fully free service to a free service with limitations + a pay service. And of course people are whining (just follow the links in that entry and wander around from there, they're all interlinked via the favorites).
The pay service costs just $5 a month, for fuck's sake. You can't pay for it? Your loss, you keep the free version or go elsewhere. Stop whining and expecting people to pay enormous bandwidth bills so you can keep posting your shitty pictures. You aren't entitled to anything. They could've made it pay-only. And all you're doing is wasting space and bandwidth.
It's the same with, say, IRC networks. It's not your right to sit on the network and flood clients off. It's not your right to sit on the network and use it as a base for serving large warez files. Don't whine if you get kicked out.
The key words here are privately owned website / chat network / whatever. The person who owns the place makes the rules, and you can do nothing at all to change it. You can ask nicely, but ultimately the decision is up to the owner, and protesting loudly and vulgarly won't do any good. Try grow up a bit and put those braincells you should have (if they haven't been killed already due to terminal stupidity) to good use.
(And this site, which I found via the previously mentioned Metafilter post, makes my point far more coherently than I have. So yeah, go read.)

*sigh* What is it with people whining when the service that they're not paying for does not deliver exactly what they want. I'd like a couple of them to be stuck with the bills for the servers and websites that they abuse. ¬__¬