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hi all,

I notice that you can opt-out this back-up cd plan..it pays you $0.05.

but why some people may want to opt-out?

is it because there is higher chances that our images in the cd will end up somewhere like ebay or it would have passed on and someone may just mis-use it?

possible to hear why you will opt-out?

to me I think the back-up cd seems will end up in some places for someone who mis-use it one day.. and i may just opt-out for that $0.05

I use to get a few 5cents from this but havent seen any for months and months, I'm guessing its not available anymore for buyers

Don't know for sure, but it still appears on the SS payment link. Take it from there.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/earnings_schedule.mhtml

Listed under: CD a month backup program.

Me too!
After several months without CDs, yesterday I had three...

Why? If they had that in mind it would be vastly cheaper for them to burn the CD's themselves __ they've already downloaded the images to their HD anyway.

Because SS have an extraordinary track record of being sensitive to their contributors' concerns. The CD back-up was introduced following customer requests but Jon didn't want to force contributors to agree to their work being sold in an additional format. I don't know why any contributor would object but you can guarantee some will always dream up conspiratorial theories.

"mtkang" ....possible to hear why you will opt-out?"

There's usually a time lag between a customer buying an image and agency sending CD backup, so if you don't like possibility of deleting an image and then seeing there's a CD backup of it X # of days later, that would be a reason to opt out sooner rather than later.   It's a long shot that anyone would care about this, though, since client already has digital dl.