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by zajio1am 2053 days ago
This is a common pattern how to break pricing mechanism and prevent competition - separate choosers of the service from payers of the service. In this case free hosting is offered to publishers, they choose to host their images there and then users who download them are asked to pay. Had publishers been asked to pay, they would select appropriate registry and perhaps self-host one rather than to use third-party one.