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Come on, now. This is ridiculous. It's been weeks since we should have gotten PP royalties. Flooding and a holiday is no excuse. I live in one of the areas hardest hit by Sandy but still didn't miss any work deadlines. Our agency had no power, so they rented a room in a hotel with business facilities so people could meet there and keep working. Those of us without power were happy to be somewhere with heat and running water. Three days after the hurricane hit I was driving 3.5 hours each way (thanks to road closures and flooded tunnels) to work 13-hour days. I know Lobo thinks that's comparing "apples and fish sticks," but the rest of the world meets its deadlines. A show of effort by the IT department at iStock is long overdue.

I foresee a day when iStock is absorbed into Getty, and current exclusives have their content represented there. And the rest of us are either on the PP sites or out entirely.

Having seen merger after merger in the ad biz, the bigger agency almost always absorbs the smaller one and jettisons the employees who no longer fit in. Getty is keeping the artists they feel are worthy, beginning by "mirroring" their images. I'm not sure they want to be in microstock, really.