KodakGallery's New Data Storage Policy Will Delete All Your Pics Unless You Pay

I had been using the kodakgallery service for quite a while to share pictures with family and friends . It used to be a great place to share pictures . Everthing was really smooth with kodakgallery when one day i get an email from them saying that i have to pay a certain sum of money annually if i want to keep my photos online otherwise they would delete it within a certain time . Now this came as a shocker , never expected a FREE service to suddenly contact you and tell you , "hey we are not FREE anymore, Pay up!!" . Well i anyways didnt place all my pictures in kodakgallery and it was not the ONLY source of these images . I had these images on multiple hard drives at home . So that was not a problem.

So its pretty obvious that i'm not going to be paying kodakgallery an annual amount when there are so many other FREE alternatives . I very rarely share pics with friends and family , just once in a while . So its really not worth it . Besides i dont think what kodakgallery did was right . Well i understand their problems as well. They cant handle so much data , but telling customers its FREE and then charging them later is just not right . They could have started charging for NEW users and kept it free for their existing customers . They could have reduced the limit of photos you could upload . But sending an email telling their customers to pay if not they would delete the pics is just not cool .

Well there are alternatives like picasa and shutterfly which could be used . So i guess these would be my options from now on . Here are bits of the email i received.