Are your online stored photos yours anymore?? NO..$399 ransom

As a new member of steemit, well 3 weeks anyway I have really been enjoying myself on this platform .
So today out of the blue I received an email from #photobucket Hive account@photobucket that tells me that I am not allowed to use any of my photographs for what they are calling 3rd party hosting. That means Steemit.

What the h*** does that mean, these are all my photos that I have stored and the simple download it goes back-to my telephone for my personal use... Any of the photographs that I downloaded were strictly mine and to my phone I haven't even stuck a picture from photo bucket to any place at all.
SO THEY HAVE EMBEDDED A CODE IN MY PICTURES AND HOLD THEM FOR $399.00 RANSOM$$$$$$ $399 for the upgrade..$$$$$ can you believe that ? $399 or $39per month
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Again thats $399 they want
I am definitely going to have to check into this further because all I did was took a download of a baby banana plant and stuck it with my video to make a decent steemit post. Now I'm not sure who has ownership. You take a photo, store it somewhere like #photobucket and now all of a sudden they decide that they own it yes this will take some time..
I need answers on how to get my unbedded photos back... heres another bit of truth about my upload.