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« on: February 02, 2013, 05:49 »
"To use the iStock interface, bring up an image's page and at the bottom is an Administration link. Deactivate is there"
I see no Admin link....
 ??
Also it is on the normal image page when logged in, not on the "edit" page, that is where I got caught out at first.
Yes, you have to click on the image thumbnail, not on "edit" or on the image NUMBER.
477
« on: February 02, 2013, 04:26 »
1052 deactivated.
478
« on: February 02, 2013, 04:11 »
OK, I really had fun this morning : instead of the (promised) 500, I deactivated 1052. I first did the sensitive ones (photos of which I knew the models would really hate to be given away for free), and then I added lots of old stuff, just to add some "bulk". Old stuff, because that way I won't be tempted to reactivate them afterwards.
Whoever is doing any counting, I did 552 more than listed.
479
« on: February 02, 2013, 02:05 »
Good morning everybody. 8 am in Belgium. Opening Firefox right now. I'm really in the mood for some deactivating ...
480
« on: February 01, 2013, 11:12 »
Let's do it.
Quoting the Generals in "The Longest Day" 24h before D-Day : Gentlemen, it's on. Next stop Normandy.
Good Luck. Pity we don't have 4000 ships and 11000 planes ...
481
« on: February 01, 2013, 10:20 »
Not a good month at all. Overall down 10% compared to Jan.2012.
Went down : Fotolia (-24%, GLO -40%, BGS -24%, CAN -40%).
Went up : SS (+10%), 123rf (+30%), DP (+50%) - and DST stayed the same.
Alamy sold 4 files for a total of 17$, so that's micro prices.
I had a very slow start of the year. Normally sales go up after 15th January, this time I needed 3 weeks to wake up again. Fingers crossed for February.
482
« on: January 31, 2013, 01:57 »
I think I'll be pasting : "I am the only one allowed to decide if this image is given away for free, not Getty".
483
« on: January 30, 2013, 01:49 »
Interesting quote from the Istock forums:
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Posted By PaulCowan:
I think I will delete at least one useless old file on the 2nd, just in case anybody is watching the numbers to see how many contributors are annoyed enough to make some minor gesture of protest.
(Edited on 2013-01-29 04:25:50 by PaulCowan)
Posted By Lobo:
Paul, we are watching everything.
I think what Cowan suggested here is very interesting : even if you do NOT plan to deactivate on Feb 2nd, or get rid of your crown, but you still want to show your concern : DEACTIVATE AT LEAST 1 IMAGE on that date. Getty might not be impressed by the number of deactivated files, but they might be by the number of angry contributors.
484
« on: January 27, 2013, 15:57 »
485
« on: January 27, 2013, 15:41 »
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 
Now that is unfair  Mine are still there after 2 whole weeks ... I'll give you 10 hearts if you tell me your secret 
486
« on: January 27, 2013, 13:42 »
The easiest way to do that for your whole portfolio is to search for your copyright name (your username, your real name or your business name) at Thinkstock. You can then send the URL to iStock support. Helped me last fall when a few images were not removed properly from the PP.
Thanks MJF, just found out how to find my TS portfolio, but ... if I try to find the TS numbers of the 500 files I plan to deactivate at IS on Feb 2nd, I'll need a week to find all 500 .... (I have 3335 images on TS). I can't send the URL to my whole portfolio, as I did not close my account, I'm just deactivating. OK, I'll start with the ones I already deactivated 2 weeks ago (around 50).
487
« on: January 27, 2013, 07:29 »
I removed my portfolio from IS about 2 weeks ago, the same day I contacted helpdesk to remove all those files from all partners. The nice girl Claudette replied almost immediately and pointed only 1 image she found.
Nice - progress, last year it took them about a week to reply. They removed the picture, but today I found another 2, mine - of course.
Claudette asked me to SEND THEM LINKS to my images, because that's the only way to locate them!
Mess, mess, mess.
Did she mean links to the Thinkstock images (or to the Istock photos) ?
488
« on: January 26, 2013, 16:03 »
Great! I just lost my Veer-appetite No opt-out, no communication, slow reviews ... that's not worth a whole month of daily uploading ...
489
« on: January 26, 2013, 11:52 »
I just thought I'd bring up this thread again so people can discuss how to get their images off thinkstock as well.
When you remove your images from iStock and they aren't disappearing from thinkstock, make sure they aren't still coming from another partner.
Zoonar, Stockxpert and signelements (I believe) all have their images sent to thinkstock.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/a-list-of-partner-programs/100/
Well, I don't have anything on Zoonar or Signelements, and at the time, I deleted every image on StockXpert + closed my account there. So everything on Thinkstock that's mine can only come from Istockphoto. The files I deactivated on 14th January (my test files) are still on TS. Among those 2 good sellers of a very sensitive model, so I couldn't wait for Feb2. So I suppose the only thing I can do is write support, and list the Istock numbers of all deactivated images. Problem is : if everybody does the same, there will be a tsunami of please-take-off-Thinkstock-mails right after Feb. 2nd, and those poor overworked admins won't be willing/able to clean up 40.000 files off TS.
490
« on: January 26, 2013, 04:04 »
Unfortunately I spend too much time reading posts here
Same here!! But I super appreciate your taking the time to reply!
491
« on: January 26, 2013, 03:47 »
Low sales and awkward uploading system. For me, the trouble involved in uploading doesn't merit the effort. The sales potential being a bit below Bigstock (as shown in the chart on the right) matches my experience there.
Don't forget I just stopped uploading to Istock, which gives me "lots" of extra time for another awkward uploading system. However, if uploading to Veer is not "safe" in terms of PP or automatic Alamy transfers, I will say "no thanks".
492
« on: January 26, 2013, 03:29 »
Many of the IS-deactivators will probably be looking for another agency to compensate lost sales. On another thread, several MSG'ers recommended Veer.
I have just been accepted at Veer, but am still hesitating - should I really start uploading there?
Looking at the various threads on the MSG-Veer-forum, I read about issues that are not very encouraging:
- the Alamy trouble
- slow reviews and upload limits
- keywording issues
- no opt-out of PP
- and worst of all : very bad communication with contributors
I'd be grateful if some of the experienced Veer-users could update the newcomers :
Has the Alamy issue been solved completely? I am on Alamy and would really be annoyed if my Veer stuff would go to Alamy.
Is deleting an image only possible by contacting support, and is contacting support really such a PITA ?
493
« on: January 26, 2013, 03:06 »
Great! I was afraid I had to look up all the Thinkstock numbers!
494
« on: January 26, 2013, 02:56 »
I have a practical question for February 2nd : I am not planning to reactivate anything afterwards, not even if Getty would give in and create an opt-out, but the few images I already deactivated (14th Jan) are still on Thinkstock. I heard different experiences on that topic : some say it takes 30 days, others (Jsnover) have the luck to see them disappear immediately, and still others talk about cases where they stay on TS "forever" and you need to contact support to have them removed. Now suppose I am in group 3 and after 30 days, I still see my deactivated stuff on Thinkstock. How should I inform support? I don't mean which e-mail address to use, but what info do they need? Should I just say "please delete all deactivated images from TS", or do they need every Istock number, or even worse : will they be asking for the TS numbers? As I plan to deactivate 500 (or more) (already mentioned in a previous post, so don't add this up in the total amount), I would prefer to know if I should make a list. Sean's script is absolutely great, but it does not send reports with TS numbers afterwards Did any of you contact Support to have TS images deleted (after deactivation), and if yes, what was their reaction? Did they ask for file numbers, and if yes, did they need the IS file numbers or the TS numbers?
495
« on: January 25, 2013, 15:38 »
The 15 files I deactivated are gone - whether or not deleting images triggered them to add more of the missing ones I can't say, but it's been many weeks since anything was added to my Thinkstock portfolio (from backlog; I'm not uploading to IS)
lucky you! My model released flame files that I deactivated on 14th January are still on Thinkstock
496
« on: January 24, 2013, 09:34 »
An Alamy contributor did some experimenting with PicScout and the ImageIRC browser extension and reported that when ImageIRC finds a fingerprinted image it displays a list of all the sources from which that image can be licensed. So, at least some Alamy images have been fingerprinted, but Alamy was not identified as a source for any of the images this fellow looked at - no irony here. Seems as though PicScout is going to have an impact on all the agencies.
Regards
Could it be that these sources were all Getty-related ? 
497
« on: January 24, 2013, 02:21 »
Google Drive want those files inside of Google Drive, but what if we threatened to publish them outside of Google Drive unless they made a deal with the content owners.
Same with istock, they have played fancy games with our content, the market value of their trades could easily be hollowed out.
Copyright means the right to copy and distribute. When we have produced an image it is only us and those we allow, who can distribute our files.
There is already a list of the involved files, it would be easy enough to upload them to a base somewhere.
Not a bad idea at all. Of course we would NOT download them from Google Drive and upload them elsewhere, as that would mean : - that we used Google Drive stuff outside Google Drive, which is against the invisible Google license. - that we are uploading limited size stuff (1900x1200?), while we have bigger once on our hard drives. If we launched a website where we could upload ONLY the Google Drive images, in an even higher resolution, we would make Getty/Google look like fools ...
498
« on: January 22, 2013, 03:54 »
I agree, but that does not mean that a (facebook) warning against illegal use of (Google Drive) images is not useful ? Any argument against posting on facebook? It even contains a hint in the direction of non-istock agencies.
499
« on: January 22, 2013, 03:16 »
Hi, I am thinking of posting this on my Facebook page, but it needs some finetuning.
Trying to make it VERY understandable for non-photographers. Purpose is discouraging people to use Google Drive AND downloading illegally, in one go.
Downloading images just got a bit more dangerous ...
In the back of your head, you know that downloading music, text or images is illegal, but everyone does it. They're posted on blogs, facebook, pinterest, twitter etc and nobody gets caught.
You've probably also heard of the extortion letters sent by Getty, charging $ 1000 (and much more) to unsuspecting people and companies who used one of their images. You did not get one? Well, the chance you'll be one of their next victims has just got a bit bigger :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGqsogYFQJU&feature=youtu.beIn case you don't have the time or patience to view the whole video : Getty has bought PicScout, a new technology to fingerprint images, put them in a huge database so that ANY image that has "lost" its metadata (copyright info, name of photo agency ...) can be easily traced. After that it's easy to send a bill ...
More than 80 million Getty images, INCLUDING the free stock images on Google Drive, have already been fingerprinted, so beware if you use these outside Google Drive, or in fact, download ANY image from the web without proof that you bought it or have the consent of the copyright owner.Stock images can be bought and downloaded in high resolution for as little as $ 5 from agencies like www.graphicleftovers.com, www.shutterstock.com, www.123rf.com and www.fotolia.com, and even $ 1 for smaller formats, so why risk being found by PicScout ? I'm sure you can find better purposes for $ 1000 ?
I think posting such a text would be free advertising for the agencies, and keep people away from Google Drive and illegal downloading. I don't think I'm saying anything that is not true, not allowed or could make Google/Getty/Istock's lawyers come after me. Any comments?
Also : non-photographers might not know Getty. How should I call Getty? Largest image reseller in the world?
500
« on: January 22, 2013, 02:29 »
80 million images that are not only in Getty's database, but are also sold by SS, FT, DST etc Guess which "metadata" will appear when you match your image using this technology : the name of the copyright holder (you) and Getty. Not SS, FT, DST etc! So guess who's going to send the bill? And I'm being nice now, I said BILL, not extortion letter.
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