In Firefox, I can open the forum main page, but somehow, subforums cannot be opened. The page keeps loading until it displays a 'The connection was reset' error. I have no internet connection problems and other websites load normally . What could cause it?

FYI, in Chrome, subforum do load, but ugly font rendering makes it illegible (although that may actually be a Chrome thing).

I want to know your thoughts on promoting your own video portfolio on YouTube, i.e. uploading watermarked comps of your footage/animations and providing a download link in the description to whichever agency you want viewers to go to (Pond5, SS, etc.)

Does it actually attract buyers or is it a useless way to promote things? I wonder if people looking to buy footage actually use YouTube to search for footage. However, if I could convince 1 or 2 potential customers to purchase one of my videos they found via YouTube, that would be worth a try.

Normally, subscription sales net me $0.44 or $0.30, but this time I earned ten times the amount for a single subscription sale. Usually these amounts are credit sales, so what kind of subscription is this?

"You can disable all files approved more than six months ago at any time. You are allowed to disable 30% of files uploaded in the recent six months however 70% must be kept online for six months from their approval date. You can disable each of your remaining 70% after the six months pass."

RIDICULOUS! I find it disgusting that DT has the gall to keep my files online without my consent. How in the world can they do this?

I just discovered that some time ago, I accidentally uploaded some files which were recently approved and online. Now I want to remove them, but I can't, because they decide in my place that they can keep my files hostage for 6 months. That's just beyond words! 

A place dedicated to all the deals, plans and schemes the agencies are currently concocting, so we contributors have a good overview of which agencies to avoid, where to pull our ports or to simply stay up-to-date about the next D-day.

We'd then be getting all of the information in one place about things like DP's Shotshop, FT's Dollar Photo Club, Istock's RC's, etc. instead of having to check each subforum for greedy plans or deals.

It could even be a simple collection of short-cuts to the corresponding threads. How about it?

I got an e-mail from a business, asking for a customized version of one of my images for use on their nylon mats. It gets printed on these mats and then shipped to retail stores.

I'm now considering the price, but I've no idea about the number of prints, how many retail stores and how expensive these mats will be. Therefore, I find it hard to come up with a good license price.

Any ideas? Who's had experience with selling designs for decoration items?

Lo and behold, Istock manages to screw something up again.

All of a sudden, upload is broken.

And this message from Lobo is hilarious:
"We only provide FTP uploads for Video. We haven't ever provided FTP for the other file types. I have no idea why we haven't ever considered FTP for photo but I'm sure there is a good enough reason considering we haven't had the option thus far."

Every other microstock site has FTP, but iStock has a "good enough reason" not to use it  (Failing IT department, perhaps.)

As if prices weren't cheap enough already...

I have not received an email telling us about this sale, so where's this coming from all of a sudden?

Apparently IS decided to have a 24 hour vector sale, all credit sales 50% off. Not sure if this means we're getting 50% of the royalties, but if so, where can I opt out?!

What if a customer wants to print your image on a t-shirt and sell an unlimited number of shirts on his web shop; would an Extended License be sufficient?

Because the Shutterstock license says:
"Incorporated into merchandise for resale or distribution, without regard to the size of the manufacturing or duplication run of such merchandise "

...but also says that Print on Demand is prohibited, even with an Extended License.

Doesn't that contradict each other? Isn't POD (tshirt) not the same principle as "Incorporated into merchandise for resale or distribution">

I did a test sale for my new webstore, and everything worked fine up until Paypal.

The payment is listed as being Completed, but my balance is still 0. I do have the option of returning the payment, but when will my balance be updated? Do I need to confirm something?

So, I bought CMSAccount's photostock script the other day, and I'm running into a little problem.

In the admin panel (Settings > Taxes) I can specify when to apply VAT on my automated invoices. It says:

- All countries
- USA
- Canada

But for tax purposes I need to be able to specify whether the customer is a business or an individual and if it's located within the European Union or outside of the European Union. The option 'Reversed charge' would be useful as well.

Is there anyone from Europe who uses this script, let me know how you handle this.