Your testimonial and that of Digital66 in the Tuwemei thread.
I had hoped that partners did not have real access to the image database, that all they had was an application that would intermediate searches, display with partner's watermark, sales, but original high res files would be in FT only and would be downloaded by the buyer directly. It seems however that they have physical access to the high res files - can anyone confirm that?
PS: Brazil has a lot of piracy too, I only think that images do not have such a market, but I can imagine those magazines that offer free CDs throwing in some images downloaded from microstock via subs.