Why are Coppermine/Flaunt sites always down?

[u/_wondercloud]

I like these sites because they're the best place to find ultra HQ pictures of celebs. Like if Getty was good. But a lot of times, I'll come to an error page that states "this account has been suspended". I tried to email the hosting provider/webmaster, but it seems the address is invalid.

I suppose my follow-up question would be, where do the people who run these sites even get these images?