I searched for free photos and got a listing of items - books, physical goods - that didn't seem to have any stolen microstock images on them. I tried changing the categories to "Other stuff" and "Arts and crafts" and that didn't improve things.
If you have some specific suggestion for how to search to find images sold as prints or whatever made you say "by the thousand" perhaps you could help us out by saying.
I went back and checked again and the woman that was giving away my photo ("Ghost House Photo") is no longer on the site. I guess someone got her kicked off. BUT my image remains on the home page. That gal had hundreds if not thousands of images for free. To earn site credits or whatever.
Some photographers are able to contact the ISP and get them to do something about stolen images. I do not know how to do it. I emailed "customer service" many times and never got a single response out of them.
Oh well I guess it is true that every image on the web WILL be stolen many times over.
Any suggestions?
-Larry
