Voice tagging for keywords/title etc, with auto edit and upload to stock sites over wi-fi.

it cant really be phishing if they ask you to login to your account and reset your password

It can if there's a link provided in the email to login to your account, and that link takes you to a website that doesn't belong to ShutterStock. As others have said, log in and change your password, no problem... but make sure you go directly to the site, rather than clicking on any links in the email.

Communism is communism. Factories run by the workers are factories run by the worker. They're not automatically the same thing, even though that may have been more the case in certain places at certain times.

And even if this venture was based on communism, one small outfit adopting a communist approach is very different to a country as a whole... it's unlikely communiststock.com would have little, if any, affect on what you see when you look around you every day.

But look at it another way... a small shop owned and run by a family. Are they automatically communists? Yes, it's a small shop and not a factory, but would an online stock marketplace really be a factory? A company owned and run by a group of individuals could just as easily be referred to as a cooperative as it could some kind of communist regime.

I still think it's not really a good idea, the whole stock photographers site made by stock photographers thing, but that's for a whole host of different reasons. None of them related to communism.

So it's pretty much exactly the same as the current VideoBlocks membership, just multi-seat. I'm assuming they're still going to have to pay the going rate if they want to download anything in the 'paid for' selection.

I get a few emails a month asking for variations on existing items or he creation of custom work based on something in my existing portfolio. Not just SS but other sites as well. Some don't come to anything, some just make me $25, but for less than half an hour of work, and some can turn into half decent projects.

Sod's law though... I've had twice the normal amount of emails in the last six weeks, all straightforward stuff that id happily do, and I don't have a laptop with me as im off travelling the wold. Will need to sort that... payday tomorrow!

So I'm assuming you now use SS exclusively for invoicing, and the sending and receiving of payments?

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on July 07, 2016, 23:18

I don't know the details of the case, but even if PayPal admitted that they have held funds for no reason in the past, that doesn't automatically mean that they are holding your funds for no reason.

Exactly the point. With the same logic, people who have problem with Paypal do not deserve to be automatically treated as it is their own fault. You have been acting like a  Paypal fanboy, attacking everyone who had problem with Paypal here. It is just not nice!

I'm not attacking anyone. I'm just pointing out that a lot of the people saying they have had their accounts limited for no reason whatsoever, have in fact, had their accounts limited for a very specific reason. The validity of that reason may be debatable, but it's not like they've just pressed a special button that randomly limits accounts based on star signs, the current price of fish, or whether the account holder likes cats or not.

And it's not so much about 'fault', but more about 'tripping a sensor' that could result in an account hold. If you've been logging into your account from the US for ten years, and then you start logging in from Cambodia and withdrawing to a Cambodian bank account.... then it's your fault if your account gets limited. By that, I don't mean that you're 'at fault', just that your actions have resulted in that hold. Fill out the forms, send in the proof, everything is gravy. Or it should be. As has been pointed out previously... if you checked your PayPal account and somebody had been withdrawing money to a bank account in Cambodia for the last few months without your knowledge, then your first question would be 'why didn't PayPal do anything about this?'

It's not about being a PayPal fan boy. It's about summing up the evidence presented to me and forming an opinion based on that information. And unless im mistaken, I'm yet to come across an instance where it's not understandable, or at least apparent, why paypal may have (rightly or wrongly) put a hold on people's accounts.

And last but not least, for those saying 'wait until it happens to you', sure... I'll be as pissed as the next guy, but anger isn't going to change my opinion of the situation. I feel for the people that this has happened to, don't get me wrong, there's nothing worse than not having access to your own money when you need it, but that doesn't alter the situation. PayPal do what they do, either according to their terms and conditions, or as a means to keep risk to an acceptable level, and thankfully, the great majority of people aren't affected by that.

I don't know the details of the case, but even if PayPal admitted that they have held funds for no reason in the past, that doesn't automatically mean that they are holding your funds for no reason. Did they lose a class action lawsuit that related to holding your funds for no reason?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying paypal are clean as a whistle or that they've done no wrong. It's just that people often muddy the waters by presenting evidence that somebody is in the wrong, when it's not really evidence that somebody is in the wrong. Not just in this thread, but loads of them in other places. For every one (seemingly) valid case of wrongdoing, there's usually ten to a hundred ones like this....

"I'm minding my own business selling heroin online and then PayPal put a hold on my account for no reason whatsoever. I hate PayPal,  PayPal are terrible."

An extreme and absurd example which I just made up, but you get the point. However abstract and tenuous the reason, there will always be a reason. Even in the lawsuit, there will have been reasons, it's just the courts felt those reasons weren't good enough. And I'd assume that since they've lost this case, the likelihood of somebody having a hold put on their account for no reason will have decreased considerably.

So PayPal came to the conclusion that somebody had accessed your account, and as a security measure, they limited your account to protect you and your clients? God, they're so evil aren't they?!

And it's always a bit chicken and the egg. If you haven't got any buyers buying stuff, then you'll have a hard time attracting contributors. And if you haven't got any contributors, then you'll have a hard time attracting buyers to buy stuff.

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on July 01, 2016, 03:31

I've only got 76 clips, but I'm working on it!

I've seen some of your clips. They are quite unique and have more commercial value than some collections of 1000+ my-dog-my-phone-my-beer etc.

Thank you! 

I've only got 76 clips, but I'm working on it!