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« on: January 27, 2013, 15:51 »
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« on: January 27, 2013, 14:27 »
All meta data is gone, and agencies wont accept images where the data is stripped, no? Or I might be wrong.
But as soon as the IP owner finds out, a simple DMCA is enough to shut them down.
Even if that's the case, it's easy enough to add meta data to an image...
Deleted my reply coz the one above basically answered it
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« on: January 27, 2013, 14:19 »
Just searched for my name on thinkstock and all images I deactivated last week have already been taken off, leaving just the one image I haven't deactivated. Cool 
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« on: January 27, 2013, 14:12 »
A thought I had, also someone else just brought it up on another forum is this: What if a user/s of google drive downloads some of these "free images" of some Istock/Getty contributors and uploads them as their own to stock agencies. How in hell's name would those stock agencies have any idea that those images do not belong to the uploader, especially if whoever these images belong to don't upload to those particular agencies. This means anyone could start making money from your images  It doesn't bear thinking about 
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« on: January 25, 2013, 12:06 »
Just seen this from Lobo:
I honestly hope more people take this attitude. It could get difficult for the folks ramping up to deactivate files to take a stand only to change their minds and request reactivations. We've already seen contacts from people who have deactivated a chunk of their portfolio who want reactivations. We've closed an account too. One whole account.
Odd, as more people have reported that they have closed their account.
I interpreted that statement differently, as in WE have closed one account (and WE being Istock).
He is threatening people: Don't expect we will re-activate your files if you change your opinion, we might even kick you out.
He expects that many people might de-activate (which is not permanent) images to see if there is any impact, and if not, they might want to return as if nothing has happened. And he wants to scare anybody that thinks like this...
He's doing that alright, another quote from Lobo: Yep. You have to know that if your serious about closing your account we can accommodate that. You can manually say good bye to all you uploads one at a time if that's your pleasure but the reactivation of those files could be problematic. I just figure it's important for people to realize it takes way more work for contributor relations to reactivate files than it takes for you to deactivate them. I would really consider the ramifications before I got to far ahead of myself.
I do care about all this. It's concerns me that there are people who are already half gone from the site motivating people to jump on board this new band wagon. In the past we've seen exclusives dump their crown only to scramble back 3 months or so later. This deactivation excersise is understandable considering everything just don't say I didn't warn you all.
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« on: January 25, 2013, 11:22 »
Just seen this from Lobo:
I honestly hope more people take this attitude. It could get difficult for the folks ramping up to deactivate files to take a stand only to change their minds and request reactivations. We've already seen contacts from people who have deactivated a chunk of their portfolio who want reactivations. We've closed an account too. One whole account.
Odd, as more people have reported that they have closed their account.
Maybe any exclusives that have closed their accounts aren't included because they have to wait 30 days for it to be closed. Could just be one independent that's closed his/her account he's referring to. Most are simply deactivating files at the moment, waiting for D-Day.
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« on: January 25, 2013, 11:09 »
Just seen this from Lobo: I honestly hope more people take this attitude. It could get difficult for the folks ramping up to deactivate files to take a stand only to change their minds and request reactivations. We've already seen contacts from people who have deactivated a chunk of their portfolio who want reactivations. We've closed an account too. One whole account.
Imagine what will occur when the dust settles -and it will settle- after the contributor imposed deadline of Feb2. There are folks involved in that piece of protest that are currently running folks into a tough spot. Avatars, external forum campaigns and the like typically hurt the individual contributors more than they do Getty or iStock. Don't think we haven't been here before. Have we reached critical mass on all this issues? Maybe. I guess we will see.
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« on: January 23, 2013, 21:27 »
Although none of my images were affected by this google/getty deal I cannot believe what they are doing to the microstock industry and their contributors so you have my full support.
Only started uploading to IS a couple of months ago so my portfolio is very small, however I have just deactivated 45 images (leaving only 1 image active). You can add these to your total.
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« on: November 21, 2012, 06:52 »
Glad for you toots. Think I might have upset the regime there, had 24 out of 26 images refused (most before that was about 2 out of a batch). Some of those has already sold multiple times on SS. Oh well, it is my decision not to hide behind aliases and take responsibility for my opinions, so if I get targeted for that, so let it be. 
Ooooh, that is painful. A bit harsh if it's something to do with your postings here though. Surely Yay wouldn't do that to someone, would they Well, at least they're selling on SS 
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« on: November 21, 2012, 06:10 »
Hooray, all 49 images are now in my portfolio. I didn't receive an email but logged on this morning and there they were
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« on: November 20, 2012, 18:26 »
I'll post it here when I receive a reply
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« on: November 20, 2012, 17:52 »
Normally as soon as the review is completed they go straight into your portfolio that day. Certainly by now mine should be showing up as it has been well over 48 hours, which is why I dropped an email to Yay.
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« on: November 20, 2012, 16:51 »
I've had a number of christmas vectors waiting to be reviewed since around 10 October, since then I've uploaded other vectors and it's now sitting at 49 uploaded.
By the time my christmas stuff gets reviewed it looks like xmas will be over and forgotten 
Sorry to quote my own post, but these 49 images I referred to were approved a few days ago, but have completely disappeared. They are not in my portfolio Well, I gather they were approved, coz they disappeared from 'waiting for review' and none were displayed in 'rejected'. Sent email off to Yay this morning but got no reply as yet. Bad enough having to wait sooooo long for review but then for the whole 49 vectors to just disappear is ludicrous 
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« on: November 15, 2012, 12:24 »
Yeah, I've just seen one I uploaded last week on there too, and it's being sold at half the price
It isn't "on there". The site is just taking search results from IS, scraping the data and reformatting and displaying it. Whatever is on IS will show up there.
Ooops, yeah I see where I went wrong on the pricing now. On IS the price shows up in euros on my screen, but on the scam site it shows up in dollars. Silly me 
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« on: November 15, 2012, 11:49 »
Yeah, I've just seen one I uploaded last week on there too, and it's being sold at half the price
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« on: November 13, 2012, 16:27 »
I've had a number of christmas vectors waiting to be reviewed since around 10 October, since then I've uploaded other vectors and it's now sitting at 49 uploaded. By the time my christmas stuff gets reviewed it looks like xmas will be over and forgotten
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« on: October 23, 2012, 05:34 »
Spread your submissions out over a few weeks.
That doesn't work either. I recently uploaded a Christmas 'similar' image to one that I uploaded over a year ago, and it got rejected for 'too similar'. 
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« on: December 08, 2011, 06:46 »
Anyone getting this?
Earnings
You are not authorized to view this page
My pending files, portfolio, everything else is accessible.
yep for a while now but if you check a few minutes later it will work
Or logout and log back in - that normally works
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« on: December 05, 2011, 14:24 »
Maybe there should be a junior and senior forum, so that us small fray are allowed to share our experiences with each other (it might in any event differ largely from that of the grown-ups whom we clearly irritates with our meager existence)?
Good idea CD123 - we wouldn't get slapped down for reporting our experiences if we had our own "junior forum", and we'd probably have more fun too By the way, I've just worked out how long it would probably take me to build my port up to 1k - 6 years!!!! Oh well, just another few years to go before I'd be in a position to join the "senior forum"
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« on: December 05, 2011, 13:53 »
Just for the record, I do vectors. It's not as quick as building up a port with photos. With vectors it's a case of one design at a time, and one design can take a couple of days to get just right.
Photo ports seem to grow much more quickly as you can do a number of shoots (or so I've read) and submit them all together.
I was just reporting on my own experience with a vector image portfolio. I may not be one of the 'big guns' but I've never said I was, and I've been building my port consistently for a while now.
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« on: December 05, 2011, 06:19 »
Same here. 123rf has now become my No 2 after SS. In the past 123rf was real slow but over the last few months the sales have really come in nicely, and with very good commissions (other than subs which are again reasonably priced compared to others). I am very happy with the results. I know its early days reporting for this month, but my commission so far on 123rf for December has even almost doubled SS commission (which I am so surprised at), and if it carries on this way they could very well end up being my No 1. Having said that, I reckon my sales on SS are not what they should be due to all the bugs flying around where no new images have been selling for the last 2-3 months, plus they (SS) cocked up the 'most popular' search for a few weeks, so that didn't help. Keep up the good work 123rf - I'm beginning to love you lots
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« on: December 01, 2011, 06:52 »
13 days and still waiting here One is a christmas image so hope they review before the christmas rush is over. I've noticed sometimes reviews do take quite a bit longer than other times. Can't really complain, I've just had my BME at 123rf - in fact I've more than doubled my previous BME - yay
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« on: November 03, 2011, 10:42 »
How weird. I've just got the web form uploader page up and it's working fine my end. I can see the boxes there to add my files to for uploading. Haven't got any more files ready to try it out again, but I did upload earlier. I'm using firefox browser.
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« on: November 03, 2011, 10:02 »
I see
"Upload Stopped
Sorry to inform that uploads will be temporarily stopped to facilitate a scheduled maintenance of our storage system. "
when trying to upload
and
"You are not authorized to view this page"
when trying to see my earnings
It's been a month since the introduction of the captcha , can we have some update please .
That's the upload message I was seeing yesterday. But today I don't see it. As stated above I successfully uploaded via the site's upload page today. When you get that 'not authorized' message you need to log out and log back in. That's what I do.
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« on: November 03, 2011, 08:18 »
Update - it is the ftp which doesn't appear to be working. Uploaded via site and it worked fine.
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