Photobucket Stole my images?

Question

Heres what i mean. I put 2 NUDE pics of Christina AppleGate
in my ohotobucket account!! and the very next day
they where gone.. all it said was you violated the terms of service!!!but how?? the pic is mine and i real good friend of mine sent it to my about 12 years ago!! and i happend to stumbul accross it and wanted it!!but now it's gone and i deleted it out of my phone and pc!! the pc harddrive is unpluged!!and in the phone once there deleted there gone!!
i have pamela anderson and a hole bunch of other
movie/rock stars that i have including
a great one of jenny of the show friends...how do i get my pic back...and ibelieve they voilated my privacy and thats illegle no know that!!why would they look a t my pics and
jake them!!that's what they did..can i sue them for this and how !!!
THEY ARE WRONG AND I KNOW IT!!!!SOMEONE PLEASE HELP HERE DO I GOT A LAWSUIT OF ONE OF LARGEST ON PHOTOHOSING SITES!!

Answer 1

No, you don’t ‘got’ a lawsuit. You agreed to their terms of service which clearly state that they can monitor the content in your account and delete it if it violates their terms of service (and nudity does).

Answer 2

Read their terms of service. It probably contains prohibitions against posting pornographic material.

They did not violate your privacy. It was on their servers. Again, look at your terms of service.

If my guess about the content of the terms of service is right (and I'ld bet money on it) you don't have any grounds to sue.

Answer 3

In order to sue someone, you MUST have EVIDENCE! You can't sue without evidence. Collect your evidence (all sort of evidence you can obtain) then sue them. It's easier to have a a lawyer on your side. However, you don't need a lawyer to defend you if you know enough.

Answer 4

read number 5 you violated their terms you have no case sorry
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this is from here
http://photobucket.com/terms

sorry you do not have a case its clearly written in their terms no nude pics get over it and learn to adhere to rules