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Discussion for those submitting to Depositphotos
FD:
--- Quote from: WarrenPrice on November 19, 2009, 09:46 ---I didn't follow a lot of what FD is talking about and do not condone all the Name-Calling
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I didn't call names. I drew conclusions based on some research. If people can't check links and see the obvious, I rest my case. Sure, partypoker might a legit site, but is Heroturko?
Depositphotos < Depositfiles < stolen photo hosting. It's all over the net. Just click. If you trust an office in tax heaven Cyprus and a virtual office in Florida and a clear connection to an illegal file hoster, I should rest my case.
Let's see what depositfiles.com is "sharing" from ShutterStock to move on. Check this link (Google: shutterstock link:depositfiles.com).
Let's just take one, download4design. But there are sites a galore, "sharing" your SS files for nada, zero, nothing.
Depositfiles = depositphotos, and they can sue me if it's not true. ;D
And if you still don't believe me, repeat a similar search for Dreamtime. I'm currently downloading some "shared" HQ Dreamstime files from depositfiles.com. Google is yer enemy, Ruskies. ;D
Subs are a wonderful thing.
DepositPhotos/EN:
Dear FD-amateur,
I have no wish to start polemics concerning depositfiles.com. I would like to only say that I have already stated everything that you describe now in the negative way. This information is nor concealed by us – it is stated as a fact. I do not understand who and in what is right, in your opinion?
Yes, we do have the office in Cyprus (now it is not an off-shore, but a part of the European Union. It is a pity that today many people do not know geography).
Yes, we do have offices (programmers, administrators, managers) in Russia, Ukraine (programmers, administrators), and in London (lawyers).
We do have the representation office in the USA by the indicated address, and there are real people working there (sales managers and consultants). In this project we work in accordance with the legislation of the USA, under the US jurisdiction, and pay taxes in the USA.
Yes, among the co-owners of the project there are Russian Americans (besides that, in Russia and European and Asian countries the most talented and cheap employees are concentrated), and we do not consider it to be negative. If you have racial prejudice towards some nations – please let us know.
Yes, we are related to depositfiles.com, since the company which owns this project, invested money in us. At the present stage we have no choice. This is very good money. Let me remind you that any working connection between depositfiles.com and depositphotos.com is impossible. These are absolutely different spheres of the Internet business.
As far as I know, the files on depositfiles.com and on other file exchange systems are uploaded by the users of the services, but not by their owners. There are norms regulating content circulation in the net (for example, DMCA in the USA). The Rightholder (or his/her representative) has the right to address to the support service with the complaint to delete his/her content. The service works legally and has a great number of users (the third place is occupied by users from the USA and Western Europe) and respected partners. We consider our investors to be serious and respected people.
If you have or will have the reason to doubt that reliable and honest people related to our project do exist, and if there are or there will be concrete claims – I would like to ask you to address us in private. After it we will provide you with the contacts of our lawyers.
NitorPhoto:
FD-Amateur,
thanks for the info you shared. You did a great job tracking down this questionable linkage. I heard enough to wait long before I upload anything there.
On the other hand. Regardless of who these DepositAnything guys are this is rude how you talk about the "Ruskies". Not that I am one of them it just shocks my ear.
shiyali:
Companies sometimes choose to set up in Cyprus, because it is still part of the EU, with all its benefits, but has lower taxes and operating expenses than other EU countries.
zymmetricaldotcom:
Russkies is to my mind like "Canuck" or "Yankee" - a friendly, deferential term. I'd be interested to know if our Russian members thought otherwise - and if so, what is the correct friendly way to play on their nationality - I think most nations generally have a term that is friendly? Aussies, Kiwis, etc.
Irregardless, FD is an expat and world traveler like many of us - let's not semantics get in the way of the info uncovered. Answers, now- where does an "image agency" get off, being financed from a company that enables image piracy? "At the present stage we have no choice. This is very good money." I bet, congratulations!
There are hundreds of thousands of stock image results, is it expected independent producers or agencies are supposed to access & download from those virus-laden crap sites and file reports for each found image? Are you paying people for the time spent doing this?
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