Uncle Pete, maybe Shutterstock does something, but not as fast as you want. Or maybe Shutterstock only attacks its long-standing authors. Or maybe the thieves slightly change the file name or its size.
I know that some authors were banned just because they shot in the same location with another author. At the same time, at a tourist site you may not even know who these people are around you and for whom they are filming.

So they work in groups then, all swapping images and accounts between them, and if one gets banned they move onto the next and share the profits from stolen images/video between them?

Here's the person you can trust, who knows what's going on. gnirtS

It does not have to be a passport and i believe now, not even photo.

Nothing stopping someone from using their driving licence, national ID it ID from their wife/sister/47 cousins neighbour and so on.  Which most of Pakistan seem to be doing.

Some other people are just doing what if and making things up, and they don't seem to understand that this goes on all the time, SSTK doesn't try to help us, or stop the problems. SSTK doesn't check for duplicates for new people, doesn't check most of the time for new uploads from the rest of us.

2019! and it has never ended. That plus SSTK threatened people who were reporting the fakes and thieves. Like happened to Brasilnut

Summary of last week (week ending Jan 27):

Total moles identified: 250

Moles wacked (by SS) from Jan 20 - 26: 120

Moles pending: 130+ (new accounts identified today)

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2019/01/27/update-why-shutterstocks-copyright-infringement-problems-should-concern-you/

Complete list:

https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/96297-thieves-thread-update-week-ending-jan-27-251-so-far-flagged/

Small victory but huge huge challenges ahead...

People who wrote and complained got told, we could only report our own images being misused and stolen. When an account gets shut down, a new one pops up, with the same images. You would think that SSTK could notice that?

Anyone who tries to say that SSTK is doing a good job or any job, or trying to end this, is in denial of the years this has been going on, and blind to the facts and evidence.