I had to be on the other side of this, but the people who provide space on servers need to make a living too (they usually have to eat, families to provide for, etc). I have no use for bandwith thieves, warez dealers, hackers, spammers, and the like who have caused a lot of sites to close. Let's not pretend that everything is free on the Internet. More and more, as the economy goes in the dumper, we're going to see increased charges for what we used to assume were free services. It is too bad that the artists with less funds couldn't combine their limited resources to be able to afford additional server space and more reliable file storage. But don't blame it all on the providers who can increasingly not afford to give away what is costing them money to maintain. There's always two sides...it isn't always "us" against "them." Artists will continue to need business acumen to survive in these lean and mean times. Wish they could focus on the creative side of things exclusively, but I just don't see that happening unless the economy makes a sharp, upward turn.