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by sharing these sorts of links you potentially improve the SEO of these sites. By sharing these links in public you help to promote them.

but these are hotlinked images aren't they? Is that site even hosting anything ?

If so then the cease and desist notices would be meaningless wouldn't they ?

My work is on that site which is partly why it annoys me you promoting it.

Thanks for posting this. I will take a look.

Ostriches does the same, the press their heads in holes and pretend the problem is not there. Thank you Cora for pointing this site out to us so that, if necessary and possible, we can react and try and protect our interests.
PS The few hits from your link in this forum will not even make a dent on the ranking of this site.

No nothing to do with ostriches.

Rather than promoting these sites by sharing links to them it would potentially be far more useful if agencies took a genuinely proactive role by quietly put their enforcement and legal teams to work on having copyrighted work removed where possible. Including where appropriate working in concert with their friends and industry colleagues at other companies. These are industry level issues and not something which should be tackled by the individual.

That is part of the role of agencies - to represent their business and therefore also the artists. IMO it is also potentially counter productive, in general, to encourage the idea that artists should send out "cease and desist" notices. That should be the job of the agencies - where it is deemed that there is any useful purpose.

There is IMO also a problem, in general, with artists who are not legal experts being encouraged to get involved in this sort of thing - which is that sooner or later legitimate users end up receiving nasty letters from increasingly disparate and random sources claiming to own or represent content. Remember that delibate pirates actually don't care if they get a "cease and desist" anyhow.

You might have noticed that Cora did post this in a general forum and not their own Cutcuster forum. I therefore assume that this was a general warning to all (not only Cutcuster contributors) to check for potential theft of their images.

I totally agree that the agencies have the duty to react to this, but I also acknowledges the extra effort by Cutcuster to put a general warning out to all about this infringing site, so if you find your images from another agency you can warn them.

There is a lot of talk on the forums about contributors standing together, if this is Cutcusters contribution to all (including agencies) pulling their strengths together against piracy, it needs to be applauded.

Site has Google Ads up, if you see your work please DMCA and inform Google of the rules violation
Please also DMCA the web host
If do not know how to do this/ what this means please look it up in this forum or elsewhere -- the DMCA is NOT sent to the people running the site so how much they care isn't all that relevant
If you recognize anyone else's work please let them know
If you can't be bothered to take a couple of minutes to do this to safeguard your work then please don't bother complaining about it being stolen
OP please break the link as others here have suggested and thanks for letting us know

Maybe you can just spell out the URL. Example: trollada dot com. These sites thrive off of backlinks and referrals from forums. That way you can alert us to the evil, without feeding the devil.

 Just a suggestion. 

See if hot-linked. Talk with agency I try remove and re-submit it.

After wasting another hour trying to find some Google "violation report" mechanism I decided not to waste any more time fighting theft. It just reinforces my belief that all images anywhere on the internet will eventually be available for use without compensation.

Congratulations, with your new found insight you are now eligible to become a property owner in South Africa.