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"truecolors" has a lot of other stolen ones as well.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-3349629-sushi.php
http://www.stockxpose.com/photo/egg.html

And ShyMan's sushi, err, eggs, err... 

I sent a sitemail to lisegagne, but also sent a copy of that to contributor relations at istock. Where big name exclusives are concerned, they will be all over it like white on rice. And i don't mean to insinuate that they only help big name exclusives, because I asked for help a while back and they checked into a stolen image problem and responded. I just mean that they will be on top of it...especially if it's hurting big name exclusives.

No need to worry, If we found any stolen images, the user has been blocked and all the user content will be removed immediately.

Shouldn't the portfolio of the users who are uploading infringing content just be deleted?  Are we going to have to go through every image and post links to other stock sites?

another one from 'truecolors'
http://stockxpose.com/photo/isolated-cauliflower.html
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-4093456-cauliflower.php

Traveler69


http://www.stockxpose.com/photo/7334.html
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-1935592-cherries-in-a-basket.php

Will that leave any left at all?

Down to 9 now...

The images should be starting to come down, I have been informed.

9 images left on StockXpose, lol!

The owner and operator of Stock Xpose is Naveen Kumar (naveenfriendly), a 24 year old guy from India. Also, StockXpose is run on servers in Canada.

What's really interesting about this is that Naveen Kumar had his very own personal account on Stock Xpose... not no more. He deleted it! Why would he do that? Hmmmm, I just can't comprehend what he might have been thinking    http://i46.tinypic.com/35cpx12.png

What are the odds?! A brand new stock site... and almost all the contributors sell stolen hi-resolution image files by other artists who had no clue this was going on.

Please note throughout this post I added screenshots along with direct links to the webpages I referenced. I did screenshots so you can see exactly what I saw at the time of putting this post together. Naveen Kumar's "cleaning up house" so the webpages might not be the same... but the screenshots will ;-)


One of the biggest issues to note here is that StockXpose has already illegally sold image licenses. The following image that StockXpose sold stood out to me because it is supposed to be an ISTOCK EXCLUSIVE, yet StockXpose has sold it to one of their customers.

StockXpose:
http://stockxpose.com/photo/chicken-salad.html (screenshot: http://i49.tinypic.com/a5ggwo.png)

iStockPhoto:
http://istockphoto.com/stock-photo-1698083-buffet-food.php

go get em Getty!

What do you know?... StockXpose has a Flickr account and the 1 image they have in their portfolio was stolen from iStockPhoto's contributor,  Artur Gabrysiak (creo77).

StockXpose - Flickr Profile:
http://flickr.com/people/26400152@N04/ (screenshot: http://i47.tinypic.com/2eye7at.png)

StockXpose - Flickr Portfolio
http://flickr.com/photos/26400152@N04/4300718715/ (screenshot: http://i47.tinypic.com/29y32n6.png)

The stolen image in StockXpose's Flickr portfolio can be found here at iStockPhoto:
http://istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7692383-little-girl-drawing.php


Mr. Naveen Kumar (naveenfriendly) stumbled his own website, StockXpose.... take a look at his stolen profile picture as well. I seriously doubt he purhcased a license to use that image!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/stockxpose.com/index.php%253Ftypes%253Dphotos (screenshot: http://i46.tinypic.com/2lax10w.png)

Stumbleupon Profile
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/stockxpose/ (screenshot: http://i45.tinypic.com/2enrp55.png)


I also found that StockXpose runs another site called FreeImagesDownload.org which is very similar but instead of licensing images, they just give them away for free.  This site has many pop-ups which crashed my browser so I'd advise looking at the screenshots instead of visiting that site. They only have 50 images at this time.

Page 1. http://i48.tinypic.com/23jhl6t.png
Page 2. http://i50.tinypic.com/2pzbrsg.png
Page 3. http://i50.tinypic.com/11s1elk.png

Naveen Kumar has a personal account at FreeImagesDownload.org with 1 free photo.
http://i46.tinypic.com/2rptuzp.png

What an endless mess!

Kenny
www.ClipartOf.com

I thought it was just about "sharing" and hugging.

Dear Clueless in St. Louis...

ETA the smiley just in case my dry humor was totally opaque

Guess what?

I just so happened to make a complete copy of StockXpose.com before Naveen Kumar deleted everything from the site! 



You act as if you are the victim Naveen Kumar, .... as if the contributors pulled a fast one over you!

Check out Naveen Kumar's  stumbleupon profile pic:
http://i49.tinypic.com/27ybtio.png

I highly doubt you purchased a license from Artur Gabrysiak (creo77) at http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7692383-little-girl-drawing.php.

Kenny
www.ClipartOf.com