MicrostockGroup

No idea if this was already discussed but i found out that there's a lot of "stock photo packs" released on Rapidshare, they're mainly vectors and hi-res pics taken from iStock and even a couple packs from Getty :

http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/

http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/2560-stockbyte-by-getty-images-sd122-seniors.html


How to deal with this ? 

If you find any of your images you can notify google and they will disappear from google search, or notify the web host and perhaps the site will be taken down... but first you have to find YOUR images

http://blog.microstockgroup.com/help-my-image-has-been-stolen-what-next/

If you see any you recognize be sure to notify the owners so they can take action.

I just found one of mine. Go to the first rapidshare link above, click on stock photos on the left. go to page 12, the valentines day pack. It's in the 6th row down. I made a screen shot to keep.

The images on page 9 of crazy people look familiar too.

There are 790 pages of this stuff. They have found a way to hide behind technology, that's for sure. A search of valentines day doesn't bring up individual photos, they are all wrapped up in these packs.

I will be sending out some emails today.

good !

let us know how it goes !

Thanks for the headsup Cathy!  I have macrosaur on ignore, so I would never have seen this. 

I'll investigate and write some letters and see what's up.  If I find anything out I will post here. 

There are many websites that provide cracked software, copyrighted movies and music for download, stock images, e-books...and everything is free. These websites are widely used by more than a half of the world and I think deleting them from google search is not a real solution. Most people have those website in their bookmarks and they don't use google search to find them. In just few clicks I found this....and I found many more..

http://www.dl4all.com/graphic/

right, so let the leechers steal our photos and thanks for the biscuits.

I didn't say we have to ignore them of course. I just said there are so many of them that I'm surprised that we here mention just few of them from time to time. In my opinion there should be done something really big to kill all those websites. If Microsoft, Adobe, and other big companies still didn't manage to stop such big part of the world from stealing their software, it's very enthusiastic of us to think that we can stop them stealing our images.
They are stealing our images from companies that sell our images. So, we are not only ones at loss. Why companies don't do something about it? They lose more than we do according to percentage they take by selling our images.

macrosaur is talking about myself and lisafx saying we were ignoring him. No, no way we should ignore these pirating sites. And I agree, there are likely thousands more, but I'm not going to sit around and do nothing.

 

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Like I said, this is why I have him on ignore, and his other alias(s) too. 

I never ignored you by the way. Interesting viewpoints regularly.