I wud say one thing to the image hostin site owners.. Well if they are no more like wanna run the site then they shdnt close them down completely instead jst remove the upload and have the uploaded images still accessible!
Image hosting sites get closed for a reason - you need huge resources to run even medicore one ( i made one for purpose of hosting my own pictures - apparently someone found it and used it to host few pics on big mexican(?) porn blog ( alexa rank ~1000 ) - i used up 600 GB of bandwidth in that one day.... ), so leaving images undeleted defeats whole purpose of abadoning site.
Read again, Best Image Host for Warez Sites. Imgur already banned many warez forums. :PAm using imgur, I got no issue with them