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Title: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 19, 2024, 20:15
Thief.
https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos)

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.

https://tineye.com/search/27bcaf83bded8b58b5c7aa53c1a5c927cb59cfb8?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1 (https://tineye.com/search/27bcaf83bded8b58b5c7aa53c1a5c927cb59cfb8?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1)

https://tineye.com/search/a693903ad1065af6914270c0ac8812c58d5ca602?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1 (https://tineye.com/search/a693903ad1065af6914270c0ac8812c58d5ca602?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1)

https://tineye.com/search/e4c86c567ecdbedd1df3ba662b20ee0ea82b87a6?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1 (https://tineye.com/search/e4c86c567ecdbedd1df3ba662b20ee0ea82b87a6?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1)

Envato Elements account thief downloaded from.
https://elements.envato.com/user/LENSLOGIC (https://elements.envato.com/user/LENSLOGIC)
https://elements.envato.com/user/vlad_star/stock-video (https://elements.envato.com/user/vlad_star/stock-video)
https://elements.envato.com/user/petrunine (https://elements.envato.com/user/petrunine)
https://elements.envato.com/user/FrameStock (https://elements.envato.com/user/FrameStock)

and many others

If your clip was stolen, send YouTube a copyright infringement claim.  They'll remove the videos and hopefully eventually close that thief YouTube account.
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 19, 2024, 20:43
Found other thief youtube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/@freestockfootage4kUHD/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@freestockfootage4kUHD/videos)

https://www.youtube.com/@freestockvideohd7394/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@freestockvideohd7394/videos)
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: SuperPhoto on February 19, 2024, 22:50
wow, sick.

thanks. insane how these ppl love to steal & resell because they are soooooooooo lazy to do any real work themselves.

3 million views - for 'adsense', if enabled, probably made about $20k from stolen ppls work...

probably not the only one... I'd suggest doing a youtube search for "free" + "stock" + "footage" & variants, and you'll probably find a lot more... this kind of thing tends to be popular in east indian communities (although of course not the only ones that do it) - and usually there are certain "get rich quick" schemes in some forums, which are less than ethical, and sold as "courses"...
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 19, 2024, 23:47
wow, sick.

thanks. insane how these ppl love to steal & resell because they are soooooooooo lazy to do any real work themselves.

3 million views - for 'adsense', if enabled, probably made about $20k from stolen ppls work...

probably not the only one... I'd suggest doing a youtube search for "free" + "stock" + "footage" & variants, and you'll probably find a lot more... this kind of thing tends to be popular in east indian communities (although of course not the only ones that do it) - and usually there are certain "get rich quick" schemes in some forums, which are less than ethical, and sold as "courses"...

Yes, I found the 2 more thieves by just searching channels for "free stock footage".  They just keep coming.
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: zastavkin on February 20, 2024, 00:59

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.
This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: Faustvasea on February 20, 2024, 01:29

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.
This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.

And which one are these?
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: zastavkin on February 20, 2024, 01:42
And which one are these?
First of all, there is an outflow of buyers from sites with high prices. For example, from Pond5.
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: Faustvasea on February 20, 2024, 01:55
And which one are these?
First of all, there is an outflow of buyers from sites with high prices. For example, from Pond5.
I upload my videos on pretty much all stock sites I have. Thinking to upload them only on video hive and P5, and maybe AS
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: Pacesetter on February 20, 2024, 03:55
Great work finding all these thieves accounts. (Y)
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: Stockmaan on February 20, 2024, 05:01
we should create one money fund and participate for all those who manage to find such thieves. Whoever finds it should be rewarded. then we would find more such thieves!
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 20, 2024, 10:22

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.
This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.

Exactly.  I've been saying it from the day 1!!!
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 20, 2024, 11:42
Great work finding all these thieves accounts. (Y)

Thanks!!
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 10:26
Update.  It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down.  Victory!!!

https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos)

Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: odesigns on February 22, 2024, 10:35
Update.  It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down.  Victory!!!

https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos)

A few of us Storyblocks contributors brought it to their attention and along with our own take down requests for our individual clips, Storyblocks issued a take down request for the entire channel.  I guess that worked.
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 12:07
Update.  It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down.  Victory!!!

https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos)

A few of us Storyblocks contributors brought it to their attention and along with our own take down requests for our individual clips, Storyblocks issued a take down request for the entire channel.  I guess that worked.

Great!!  Did you see your clips there?
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 12:23
There probably are more thief channels here.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=free+stock+footage&sp=EgIQAg%253D%253D (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=free+stock+footage&sp=EgIQAg%253D%253D)


Found a stolen clip.
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-20560555-macro-eyes-web-surfer-office-worker-insurance (https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-20560555-macro-eyes-web-surfer-office-worker-insurance)
Thief
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1108831819-eye-glass-close-business-man-vision (https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1108831819-eye-glass-close-business-man-vision)
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/DesignBeez/video (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/DesignBeez/video)

https://tineye.com/search/06688ca4e5394b1f6659a05dce474d7fdedcf17f?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1 (https://tineye.com/search/06688ca4e5394b1f6659a05dce474d7fdedcf17f?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1)

Thief youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@freesv/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@freesv/videos)
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: odesigns on February 22, 2024, 12:26
Great!!  Did you see your clips there?

One. I did a take down request. 
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 12:44
Found another obvious thief youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@freecreativefootagelibrary5492/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@freecreativefootagelibrary5492/videos)

If you upload to iStock and other unlimited download sites, check out the videos there.
Title: Re: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!!
Post by: MotionJunky on April 04, 2024, 15:49
found another one here with 1.6K videos music loops: https://www.youtube.com/@LoopsHouse (https://www.youtube.com/@LoopsHouse)

I sent a few takedown notice to youtube and waiting to see what happens.