Author Topic: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief (Read 14616 times)

StockThief · « **on:** December 21, 2017, 19:16 »

Well, time to retire.

No more money in it. Thanks for the easy pickins...

Ask me anything

StockThief · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:20 »

Most of the time I sell in SEO forums for the Blackhat crowd

StockThief · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:20 »

And I sell collections on Ebay etc...

Brasilnut · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:22 »

How come you can't you afford to pay $1 for an image?

StockThief · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:25 »

I am being serious here...

I sometime pay for a really good image and crop it or combine it with another top selling image. Defeating the AI was the biggest challenge.... not the dopey reviewers.

Just reversing orientation of the image many times works.

StockThief · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:28 »

Or take the center of the subject matter.... person etc...

Crop it and add another background with some blur.

StockThief · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:31 »

Other tricks include using a 3d program

Apply the image as a texture to a plane then add something like Ambient occlusion.

Most viewers can not see the difference but it will get by the AI.

StockThief · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:33 »

Of course.... hitting up local print shops and gypo art shops works too

StockThief · « **Reply #8 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:35 »

It's a digital medium... just like movies that can be pirated.

Brasilnut · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:37 »

We forgive you.

Now say 10 Hail Marys and donate $200 for your sins into my paypal account. All will be well.

StockThief · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:42 »

For a while I giving a free USB stick to local companies.

I set up a website and charged for subscriptions

StockThief · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:45 »

Video is more work

Cropping HD or zooming slightly with your clips can work.

Or just adding various filters can work.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:45 »

Somebody wants attention.

StockThief · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:48 »

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on December 21, 2017, 19:45

Somebody wants attention.

I've moved on...

MS has dried up. Over saturated. Lots of good work...being sold for pennies.

StockThief · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2017, 19:53 »

Just do a Piratebay search and you'll get an idea.....

https://thepiratebay.org/search/shutterstock/0/99/0

Hannafate · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2017, 20:03 »

I'm not falling for it. I know you're wearing your asbestos underwear, so I refuse to breathe flames at you.

StockThief · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2017, 20:21 »

Falling for it....

You already have.

You guys post on Facebook, or put your profile out there...

Sooner or later there will be a unlocked door.

And granted most of your work sucks, but there's still a few gems to pick up.

StockThief · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2017, 20:35 »

and selling on places like photoshelter and other hosting platforms is good

Brasilnut · « **Reply #18 on:** December 21, 2017, 21:06 »

Quote

You guys post on Facebook, or put your profile out there...

That's a good point.

I reduce size/resolution for all images I post on social media. Others put watermarks.

StockThief · « **Reply #19 on:** December 21, 2017, 21:11 »

Takes money to make money.

I'll pay for good work. Alter what I have too and sell it in a collection.

StockThief · « **Reply #20 on:** December 21, 2017, 21:20 »

Another trick was block Google photo indexing on my site.

I would employ a click bank and drive up 1000's of view and submit the url to an indexing service. But not with any ads running. Then start google analytics and alexa indexing.

Sell the site off with a 100k fake views under the pretext it's my own work.

JimP · « **Reply #21 on:** December 21, 2017, 21:52 »

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on December 21, 2017, 19:45

Somebody wants attention.

This is why we needs the minus back. Mark the name and subject a failed troll, too obvious. You would think a good troll would be at least tricky and pretend to be an idiot instead of just jumping out with a clown suit and some whipped cream, admitting that from the start. Gone, dead, failed, no one cares.

noodle · « **Reply #22 on:** December 22, 2017, 06:08 »

Just another petty shoplifter that thinks they’ve pulled off the hiest of the century
LOL
Maybe get a book deal with a major publisher or better yet a movie deal

50% · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2017, 07:47 »

It is interesting but I really don't understand it, are there tutorials? Not that I'm going to do it, beside ethical reasons my problem is not creating new work it is wading through it and bring it online. How do you handle model releases do you just fake them?

ShadySue · « **Reply #24 on:** December 22, 2017, 08:00 »

Quote from: 50% on December 22, 2017, 07:47

It is interesting but I really don't understand it, are there tutorials? Not that I'm going to do it, beside ethical reasons my problem is not creating new work it is wading through it and bring it online. How do you handle model releases do you just fake them?

Don't feed the troll!

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