Yeah I was shocked and pissed too. I only noticed it with this new batch of Bono pics, when did this happen?
Weird thing is, when I tried something on the current news page, like Jennifer Lopez (ugh) they DID click to enlarge! So maybe it's just the archived stuff?
What pisses me off is if they got the date of Bono's awards ceremony right (Nov. 18) it would've made the current news page and therefore clickable but the dumbasses labeled it Nov. 15 which dropped it off the page!
So if we know there is something current for one of our bands coming up we should look right away to get them while they still click! This does suck, greed ruins EVERYTHING!! First wireimages, then getty, now this! At least we have Charlene to get our U2 stuff from wireimages but it sucks for all the other services. WHY can't they just let us see? They had watermarks anyway!
Reuters through Yahoo has good pics (only fairly current usually) but I've noticed less and less since those services went pay- greed again- guess the photographers would rather sell to those pay services now. The internet has become increasingly less fun as more and more stuff goes pay. We already pay for our internet service but soon almost every website will want a piece of us too, and we just can't do it. Money, money, money.
The fun's over. The gravy train runs slowly drier.