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PaulieWalnuts

« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2010, 19:42 »

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Quote from: cclapper on March 26, 2010, 13:09

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I didn't say we have to ignore them of course.

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.

Cclapper, I 'm sure I'm not alone on this but can you leave the Quote info in when you quote somebody? It makes it kind of a pain to go back through the post to try and figure out who you're quoting.


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macrosaur

« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2010, 20:10 »

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madelaide

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« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2010, 20:13 »

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I never ignore anyone automatically. It's much more fun to ignore optionally. Grin


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macrosaur

« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2010, 20:23 »

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Quote from: madelaide on March 26, 2010, 20:13

I never ignore anyone automatically. It's much more fun to ignore optionally. Grin


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lisafx

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« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2010, 21:13 »

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Just once I would love to see somebody who rants about how they are never going to post again actually follow through. Roll Eyes


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Dreamframer

« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2010, 21:22 »

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Never say never


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sjlocke

« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2010, 21:29 »

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I'm never posting again.


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PaulieWalnuts

« Reply #32 on: March 26, 2010, 22:21 »

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Quote from: sjlocke on March 26, 2010, 21:29

I'm never posting again.

How about some emotion?

Like "I'm never posting again"?


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cclapper

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« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2010, 07:12 »

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Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on March 26, 2010, 22:21

Quote from: sjlocke on March 26, 2010, 21:29

I'm never posting again.

How about some emotion?

Like "I'm never posting again"?

I put him on ignore again.

Just for you, Paulie. No, no one has ever actually complained about me not putting the quoter in before. I thought most people read the whole thread. You could put me on ignore! Wink

Too bad this thread has been derailed by the bulls*it. It's pretty important.


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« Reply #34 on: March 27, 2010, 07:44 »

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Quote from: cclapper on March 27, 2010, 07:12

I put him on ignore again.

He did you a favor by reporting an image sleuth site. Shocked


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sjlocke

« Reply #35 on: March 27, 2010, 08:31 »

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Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on March 26, 2010, 22:21

Quote from: sjlocke on March 26, 2010, 21:29

I'm never posting again.

How about some emotion?

Like "I'm never posting again"?

Whoops, forgot the emoticon wink... Wink


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PaulieWalnuts

« Reply #36 on: March 27, 2010, 08:36 »

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Quote from: cclapper on March 27, 2010, 07:12

Just for you, Paulie. No, no one has ever actually complained about me not putting the quoter in before. I thought most people read the whole thread. You could put me on ignore! Wink

Too bad this thread has been derailed by the bulls*it. It's pretty important.

I really prefer not to ignore people. I would rather try to work with reasonable people. But you responded exactly as I figured you would.


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lisafx

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« Reply #37 on: March 27, 2010, 10:43 »

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Sean, I just found one of yours on the same site (near bottom of page) listed as being from Shutterstock:
http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/page/2/


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stockastic

« Reply #38 on: March 27, 2010, 11:56 »

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Quote from: FD-amateur on March 26, 2010, 19:39

Quote from: macrosaur on March 26, 2010, 14:19

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

Likewise, I never ignore anyone. Forums get boring when all the discussion is between like-minded people.


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sjlocke

« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2010, 12:43 »

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SS, eh? That's funny. I'll check it out when I get home. Tx! I tried to go through them yesterday, but it too forever to load.


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Dreamframer

« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2010, 12:43 »

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So, on this website we have 793 pages, and every page contains 10 posts. If you click on "read more" link below any post you will see that every post contains 100-200, and sometimes more pictures packed in .rar files. That's total of more that 1 100 000 images stolen from stock sites. I wander how many buyers use websites like this instead of buying our images. It's strange that someone is able to steal more than 1000 000 unnoticed...


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macrosaur

« Reply #41 on: March 27, 2010, 13:35 »

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I'm afraid these guys are just the tip of the iceberg.

I just found some more pirate links with iStock packs :

http://www.downtr.net/59706-istockphoto-vector-300-illustrations-pack.html

http://terabitwarez.com/download/istockphoto+vector+illustrations+pack.html

http://www.webdenizi.net/graphic/photoshop/54323-iStockphoto-Vector-300-Illustrations-Pack.html

http://win7dl.com/graphics/icons/23796-istockphoto-vector-300-illustrations-pack.html

http://www.downarchive.com/graphics/graphic-others/94729-istockphoto-royal-junk-collection.html

if you've time to spare just google for "rapidshare istockphoto pack" (without quotes), most of the results
are spam and redirects but a good 10% are real sites with direct links to .rar files.

(if you've even more time you could try similar queries with "Megaupload" instead of "Rapidshare")


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macrosaur

« Reply #42 on: March 27, 2010, 13:44 »

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Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on March 27, 2010, 08:36

Quote from: cclapper on March 27, 2010, 07:12

Just for you, Paulie. No, no one has ever actually complained about me not putting the quoter in before. I thought most people read the whole thread. You could put me on ignore! Wink

Too bad this thread has been derailed by the bulls*it. It's pretty important.

I really prefer not to ignore people. I would rather try to work with reasonable people. But you responded exactly as I figured you would.

i can admit i'm 50% troll, but i'm also 50% non-troll so either people deal with it
or they better ban me right away.

ignoring people is for guys who have no sense of humour and take the internet
way too seriously.

if we were to meet face to face we would probably be all friends, but let's face it
this is the internet and none of us know each other in the real life, we're not real
friends, we don't even live in the same continent nor we speak natively the same
language, the only thing we have in common is we're stock photographers.

take forums with a grain of salt !


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macrosaur

« Reply #43 on: March 27, 2010, 13:47 »

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wow, look at this :

http://www.downarchive.com/graphics/graphic-others/94729-istockphoto-royal-junk-collection.html

it's a 1.5GB pack (!!) split in a few 200MB .rar files

they also have a HUGE forum : http://www.downarchive.com/forums/


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Digital66

« Reply #44 on: March 27, 2010, 14:07 »

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Quote from: macrosaur on March 27, 2010, 13:47

Have you informed CE about this?


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cthoman

« Reply #45 on: March 27, 2010, 14:14 »

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Quote from: macrosaur on March 27, 2010, 13:44

ignoring people is for guys who have no sense of humour and take the internet
way too seriously...
take forums with a grain of salt !

I agree. People are way too serious on here most of the time.


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sjlocke

« Reply #46 on: March 27, 2010, 14:21 »

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Another reason sub sites are garbage is they allow scum to stockpile like this. I'm sure most of the work found in these places is taken from subscription sites. Otherwise why would people spend real money on dl'ing tons of payg just to give it away to strangers on the net?


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cclapper

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« Reply #47 on: March 27, 2010, 14:34 »

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Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on March 27, 2010, 08:36

I really prefer not to ignore people. I would rather try to work with reasonable people. But you responded exactly as I figured you would.

Good!

I'm willing to bet I'm not the only person who hit the ignore button for this person (lisafx already copped to it too...no picking on her?).

FD-Amateur...I did acknowledge the fact that macrosaur did us a favor and reported the thread and thanked him for it. Read the posts above.

Lisa, I'm going to go look and see if mine are down.


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cclapper

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« Reply #48 on: March 27, 2010, 14:47 »

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So mine was on page 12 and it's gone now, too. Either they have shifted things around, which will mean going through more pages, or they are down. But yesterday when I checked there were 790 pages, today 793. I hope the stock sites are keeping tabs, too.

With all the new sites macrosaur posted today, we sure have our work cut out for us.

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Another reason sub sites are garbage is they allow scum to stockpile like this. I'm sure most of the work found in these places is taken from subscription sites.

When I browsed through the first 25 pages yesterday, there were packs with Getty, Comstock, and other watermarks showing. I don't think the thieves are particularly discriminatory.

Edit: yeah, the site is loading really slow today. Maybe all the contributors checking for their work are overloading the servers.


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Dreamframer

« Reply #49 on: March 27, 2010, 14:54 »

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Quote from: macrosaur on March 27, 2010, 13:35

That's what I'm saying. We here report a website like this from time to time, but there are tons of websites like this.


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