I saw this at SS this morning. I can't believe people get away with this. Even some of sharpley's well known airplanes shots. Pretty brazen if you ask me.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45865

Here is the FT portfolio in question:
http://eu.fotolia.com/p/178073

It would be really nice if there could be some "TinEye" like website, which could check only micro- and macrostock sites for cases like this. The database wouldn't be bigger than several millions and everyone of us could easily check images in our portfolios.... Without it, I think there are many many more, still unrevealed thieves among us...

Fotolia was contacted about this last week too, according to a post on another board I am a part of.  Of course, his portfolio is still up at Fotolia.  So that tells you how seriously they are dealing with out and out theft.  On the other hand Shutterstock is apparently on the case.  Some of his images have already been deleted, and hopefully they will close down his account.

perhaps if we all write an email to fotolia they will get the message?

Looks like they took action. I emailed the thief and got this reply. Looks like more work has to be done by some image owners.

".......First of all, please let me apologize for what has happened, I feel stupid and angry with myself for letting myself be talked in to uploading images a friend of mine had, they originate from: http://www.fordesigner.com and appear to be free downloads..........." snip