Author Topic: Pirated istock images ? (Read 46068 times)

macrosaur · « **on:** March 26, 2010, 05:06 »

No idea if this was already discussed but i found out that there's a lot of "stock photo packs" released on Rapidshare, they're mainly vectors and hi-res pics taken from iStock and even a couple packs from Getty :

http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/

http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/2560-stockbyte-by-getty-images-sd122-seniors.html

How to deal with this ? $:-\$

FD · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2010, 05:29 »

Quote from: macrosaur on March 26, 2010, 05:06

How to deal with this ? $:-\$

The site owner is protected by WhoisGuard, which isn't a good sign, but the site is hosted in Germany.
If you have time to spare, report the link to Rapidshare and the "sharers" will soon upload it again.
Cat and mouse game.
They must earn quite some cash since they have a high rank.

leaf · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:02 »

If you find any of your images you can notify google and they will disappear from google search, or notify the web host and perhaps the site will be taken down... but first you have to find YOUR images

http://blog.microstockgroup.com/help-my-image-has-been-stolen-what-next/

If you see any you recognize be sure to notify the owners so they can take action.

macrosaur · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2010, 07:03 »

I mean, shouldn't we feedback iStock and Getty about this ?

Will they act accordingly or they just don't care ?

Years ago Getty was hellbent on lamers and pirates, but i haven't heard about any Getty lawsuit since 2 or 3 years.

cathyslife · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2010, 07:16 »

I just found one of mine. Go to the first rapidshare link above, click on stock photos on the left. go to page 12, the valentines day pack. It's in the 6th row down. I made a screen shot to keep.

The images on page 9 of crazy people look familiar too.

There are 790 pages of this stuff. They have found a way to hide behind technology, that's for sure. A search of valentines day doesn't bring up individual photos, they are all wrapped up in these packs.

I will be sending out some emails today.

cathyslife · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2010, 08:09 »

I found one of lisafx's too on page 25. And a bunch with shutterstock watermarks. I will send some emails to them right now.

macrosaur · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2010, 08:20 »

good !

let us know how it goes !

cathyslife · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2010, 08:23 »

macrosaur, did you send an email to Getty, alerting them to that page that you found?

I sent an email to Shutterstock, as I found some watermarked images. I am asking if this might be a partner site. If it is, then we can call off the dogs. I really wish these sites were more transparent with their partners.

lisafx · « **Reply #8 on:** March 26, 2010, 09:34 »

Thanks for the headsup Cathy! I have macrosaur on ignore, so I would never have seen this.

I'll investigate and write some letters and see what's up. If I find anything out I will post here.

cathyslife · « **Reply #9 on:** March 26, 2010, 10:32 »

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I have macrosaur on ignore

I did too but was interested in what he had to say about this. I have temporarily unignored him...I hate ignoring people but sometimes they just keep posting the same whining and rhetoric, over and over. It's like the boy who cried wolf...then when they do have something important to say, you miss it.

Anyway, I sent emails to IS, SS, DT and BigStock, asking if this was a partner site. IS and BigStock have replied. No, not a partner site. Definitely a bad one, and IS had been notified already by others. CE at IS was kind enough to send me a copy of a cease and desist notice to send to this site. If anyone would like it, PM me.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #10 on:** March 26, 2010, 12:03 »

There are many websites that provide cracked software, copyrighted movies and music for download, stock images, e-books...and everything is free. These websites are widely used by more than a half of the world and I think deleting them from google search is not a real solution. Most people have those website in their bookmarks and they don't use google search to find them. In just few clicks I found this....and I found many more..

http://www.dl4all.com/graphic/

macrosaur · « **Reply #11 on:** March 26, 2010, 12:37 »

macrosaur · « **Reply #12 on:** March 26, 2010, 12:39 »

Quote from: Whitechild on March 26, 2010, 12:03

There are many websites that provide cracked software, copyrighted movies and music for download, stock images, e-books...and everything is free. These websites are widely used by more than a half of the world and I think deleting them from google search is not a real solution. Most people have those website in their bookmarks and they don't use google search to find them. In just few clicks I found this....and I found many more..

http://www.dl4all.com/graphic/

right, so let the leechers steal our photos and thanks for the biscuits.

cathyslife · « **Reply #13 on:** March 26, 2010, 12:52 »

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well then you deserve a * OFF.
and don't bother, you'll never ever hear me again on this board, *.
I'M OFF.

Yeah, that's pretty much why you were ignored. You don't have to leave the board, just realize not all of us want to hear the whining and repetitive rhetoric and negativity and swearing. Just cut the "what you think is shocking language" and you won't get ignored. Simple. And you have exactly the same right as the rest of us...if you don't want to hear what I have to say, by all means, ignore me! Sometimes I don't want to hear what I have to say.

Edit: I do appreciate your pointing out these bad sites though. That takes money from ALL of our pockets. We have that in common.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #14 on:** March 26, 2010, 12:55 »

I didn't say we have to ignore them of course. I just said there are so many of them that I'm surprised that we here mention just few of them from time to time. In my opinion there should be done something really big to kill all those websites. If Microsoft, Adobe, and other big companies still didn't manage to stop such big part of the world from stealing their software, it's very enthusiastic of us to think that we can stop them stealing our images.
They are stealing our images from companies that sell our images. So, we are not only ones at loss. Why companies don't do something about it? They lose more than we do according to percentage they take by selling our images.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2010, 13:05 »

Just take a look at this. Here we have tons of links to websites that steal and offer for free everything, including stock images. Almost all of them have our images. And that's probably just a tiny fraction in the sea of piratery.

cathyslife · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2010, 13:09 »

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I didn't say we have to ignore them of course.

macrosaur is talking about myself and lisafx saying we were ignoring him. No, no way we should ignore these pirating sites. And I agree, there are likely thousands more, but I'm not going to sit around and do nothing.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2010, 13:20 »

Quote from: cclapper on March 26, 2010, 13:09

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I didn't say we have to ignore them of course.

macrosaur is talking about myself and lisafx saying we were ignoring him. No, no way we should ignore these pirating sites. And I agree, there are likely thousands more, but I'm not going to sit around and do nothing.

Sorry if I was misunderstood. Macrosaur said: "right, so let the leechers steal our photos and thanks for the biscuits."
That's why I said of course we shouldn't ignore them. It wasn't connected with you two girls ignoring macrosaur

cathyslife · « **Reply #18 on:** March 26, 2010, 14:11 »

macrosaur · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2010, 14:19 »

macrosaur · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2010, 14:24 »

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2010, 17:02 »

?

wow....

lisafx · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2010, 17:07 »

Like I said, this is why I have him on ignore, and his other alias(s) too.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2010, 19:38 »

Quote from: macrosaur

well then you deserve a * OFF.
and don't bother, you'll never ever hear me again on this board, *.
I'M OFF.

Haaha. I called this one.

http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/thinkstockphotos-com-getty-new-family/msg134056/#msg134056

FD · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2010, 19:39 »

Quote from: macrosaur on March 26, 2010, 14:19

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I never ignored you by the way. Interesting viewpoints regularly.

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