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« on: July 07, 2010, 06:40 »
For example, for me this image is real life, and radiates emotions 10 times more than frog on the swing  Or this one. It's not "real life image" but emotions are obvious and very strong
527
« on: July 07, 2010, 06:34 »
I completely agree with you Eyedesign, but there are much better images with emotions on microstock than these we see in hot shots collection. Not everyone is taking pictures of business people and apples over white.
528
« on: July 07, 2010, 06:01 »
I opened one thread about "hot shots" before. It was similar to this one. The way of choosing these images for hot shots collection is a real mystery to me, because I think they needed to look just 2 minutes more to find tons of much better images. These images are obviously selected by just one person without any consultation with others. Maybe the person is important enough that no one has courage to tell him/her that images are bad. To me it looks like the person doesn't have any experience in photography, even tho he/she works in Getty.... I am not a pro, but I feel free to say that almost anyones portfolio contains better images than these.
529
« on: June 17, 2010, 18:19 »
Waiting time is too long.... They are probably reviewing images from few big contributors that applied first... That is the most important for them now.
530
« on: June 14, 2010, 16:28 »
John, I sent you an email.  Ivan
531
« on: June 13, 2010, 17:29 »
My browser says: Server not found Firefox can't find the server at www.cutcaster.com. * Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
532
« on: June 13, 2010, 00:02 »
I can't open Cutcaster for 2 days already. Is it just me, or...
533
« on: June 12, 2010, 18:10 »
думаю стоит сдесь отметиться! да-нас словян много на фотостоках к тому же и талантливых но мы заняты работой правда? 
Не все так заняты. Например, меня уволили.
534
« on: June 09, 2010, 10:53 »
When you say "microstock site" do you mean owning a microstock site, or submitting images as a photographer to one microstock site??
535
« on: June 09, 2010, 10:48 »
If there is a chance that those are oil tanks and and engineer, then reviewer should accept those keywords. It's that simple. But everyone can make a mistake...it's not the end of the world. Just resubmit the image with an explanation.
536
« on: June 07, 2010, 19:58 »
@ sjlocke - I doubt poor people need our images. That's why I think our images are stolen by people who are making money on them. I don't see any entertainment in collecting and distributing stock images, and I think it's pretty different than watching pirated movies at home. I mean, the purpose of these two thefts are different.
@Suljo - Rapidshare, Megaupload are legal services, and they are not mentioned to be home for pirated things. But, unfortunately, they are alive thanks to pirated software, and they won't erase anything if someone doesn't make a complaint about specific link that leads to pirated thing. They of course know they are full of cracked programs and pirated movies and music, but they are making lots of money by hosting these files. So, they are pretending they don't see it. Pirates also use passwords to protect their files. They are putting them into password protected rar and zip files, so they can't be scanned by any software. If we want our images to be saved from free distributing, I think we should search internet everyday, and report any pirated links to rapidshare, Megaupload, or whatever service it is. They MUST delete the file that is pirated. They just won't do it without complaint.
537
« on: June 07, 2010, 15:46 »
Well Lisa, my aunt with her family moved to Austria, my uncles are in Switzerland and Australia, my best man is in Pennsylvania, and hopefully I will live in California, where you can buy a snowball maker http://www.amazon.com/Sno-Baller-Snowball-Maker-Colors-Vary/dp/B000II4JJ2 lol I was in the middle of the revolution, fighting with a police in Belgrade in year 2000, when we deposed from power our ex president and dictator Slobodan Milosevis. And then, I was growing a hope the things will change drastically. And things are changing slowly, but life is too short. I can't wait anymore. My son is already 7 y.o. I'm sorry I sounded like I support piracy. I was just trying to justify people who deserve a better life, but they can't afford it because someone from above is stealing from them every day, because I am part of such people in some way. Several years ago, politicians were buying people's votes on presidential elections for 3 kilos (6 pounds) of sugar. In that situation, who can expect of those people to care about copyright and those things. That was the time when everything started to fall apart. I believe similar situation is in all ex communists countries. Russia is the first of them to start rising from the mud (or maybe it's just Moscow, who knows) I believe 90% of piracy is present among poor people. That's why I said the companies are not at the real lost. They could never really sell their products to poor people. And those poor people are not poor because they don't want to work, but because their countries can't make enough jobs for them. Very few of them have luck to escape. In my country there is a name for phenomenon of smart people leaving the country, and it's called "brain drain". Only now, after so many years of brain drain government is trying to stimulate those scientists who left the country to come back. Thank you for your wishes!
538
« on: June 07, 2010, 14:17 »
Exactly! I just don't want to be in position to have someone to offer me pirated stuff like it's normal, not just because of piracy, but because it pulls many layers of other things that exist in such society. If you want to do something in a normal way, you will find your self in the front of many barriers, and if you want to pass those barriers you have to fill everyone's pocket on the way through it. I am very happy that I managed to open the door and work on my way out, but I also understand those people who have to stay where they are. Some of them can't get out, some of them are afraid to try, and few of them simply enjoy all goodies they made in such corrupted society.
539
« on: June 07, 2010, 11:08 »
Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. I know I can't change the situation here, so I'm leaving. That's what I am trying to say all this time. I don't want to live this way, but I also understand my people, because very few people have a choice here.
540
« on: June 07, 2010, 10:49 »
541
« on: June 07, 2010, 10:32 »
You are trying to convince me that pirated software is illegal. Why you are doing this anyway? Do you think I don't know that? What is actually your point? Don't you understand I am trying to justify my people because I know that we have so many talented people, and those talents would be totally wasted if they didn\t see the world thanks to piracy. Now we have more people outside our country than in it. Only in Chicago more than 500 000 Serbs live, and in our country there are only 6 000 000 left. We are leaving the country because it's impossible to live normally here. We also want to watch movies, listen to the music and do other stuff all people are doing. I also plan to leav the country and to take my son with me, because I don't want him to grow up in a society where he can't earn more than 300 euros per month. I don't believe you really think people would accept the fact that they deserved just to eat, sleep and work, just because they are unlucky to be born in the wrong country. People are already disappointed enough because their own government is screwing their lives for decades. 20 years of my life I spent in the kind of crisis that you'll never see. All that time I knew the modern world egists out there. I knew it, and I would like to see the one who will stop me trying to sneek into it, at least through pirated movies and music. I learned Russian language in my school, because there was no English. But I managed to learn English by my self exactly by listening western music and watching movies. Do you really thing I would accept to make boudaries around my self because it's illegal to listen foreign music in a country under embargo?? 6 years I was traveling in a train for 4-5 hours every weekend on one leg, standing to finish my veterinarian studies. And after it I was faced to the situation that I can't find a job. The country is falling appart all my life. First, my country was SFR Yugoslavia, than it fell appart and became SR Yugoslavia, than it become Serbia and Montenegro, and then it became Serbia. I was born in one country, grew up in another, served the army in third one, and now I live in fourth country. Did you hear that 13 Chinese people commited a suicide in an iPod ffactory in last 2 months? http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/05/26/foxconn_no_suicide_pledgeDo you think they will let their children to stay blind and to work for Apple for generations without a posibillity to see the outter world? I think no. They will do everything to show their children everything, through pirated movies, music, and everything else, and they don't care about anyones copyright, or intelectual property. You have to understand that. Even if you don't, even if you keep saying it's wrong, you have to know it's wrong just for you. For them it's totally right, because there is no other way. Some people simply don't have a choice. Even poorest people from western world can collect more money by begging on the street than these people can earn by working 12 hours a day.
542
« on: June 07, 2010, 09:56 »
Sorry to say this, but you guys know nothing about third world. You still think people from poor countries will accept the thing that pirated stuff is illegal, and tso they will teach their children that they are not allowed to see what's new in Hollywood? Lol Crazy. If you think people just need food and shelter, send your kids here, to grow year by year with no window to the outer world. There is enough food here, and they will have shelter and place to sleep. I bet they will start downloading Hollywood movies very soon.
543
« on: June 07, 2010, 09:15 »
I know it's wrong, but it will egsists for years more, and you can just adjust to it and take advantage of it if possible. That's what I'm saying. People in China live poor lives and don't pay for software and that wont change very soon. People in America live rich lives, and have to pay for software. That's reality.
544
« on: June 07, 2010, 07:41 »
Oh yes, I forgot I owe you an explanation why I don't use pirated software. Well, let's say I'm lucky enough not to have too. I all have now is legal. Yes, I was using it before, but you also have to know that my country was under embargo for years, and people under embargo are doing all kind of things because it's in human nature to get what they want. You simply couldn't find legal software, or legal anything from western countries. You couldn't even buy any foreign brand for years. I guess you didn't expect I will go fishing all day with my dad. Of course I was buying pirated video games and other stuff.
I don't know what is bigger crime. To punish all nation with embargo because of few politicians, or to play pirated games?
545
« on: June 07, 2010, 07:14 »
I know that piracy is a taboo for you, and I understand you can't understand that here, piracy is still welcomed. People here don't give a dam for your copyright. You still know only one side.
Uh, we understand it. You just seem to enjoy writing about how the cultural sense of entitlement justifies it because they aren't willing to pay for it, while we all think the pirates are a bunch of thieving *insult removed*.
Guys, you know what. My, or your posting won't change anything. I will let it this way, because there is no point to argue anymore. I was irritated by Microbius's post how madelaide is hypocrite, and I was trying to say how funny and childish this kind of comment looks to someone who lives here. It actually looks more like a comment from someone who just fall from Mars.... I mean, she is a hypocrite because she posted a video that someone posted on youtube with copyrighted track. Haha, c'mon. The message on the video was way more important than those few dollars the guy who owns the copyright for the track should get. Maybe we should burn her as a witch, like a Giordano Bruno when he said the Earth is rounded... it was illegal to say such things in that time....
546
« on: June 07, 2010, 06:58 »
It is illegal, but it is good in some ways. When you visit Silicon Valley and see that 90% of all engineers are from China, Russia, Brazil, India, Serbia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Croatia, Ukraine etc, then we can talk. When you realize that those kids who grew up on pirated software are actually making legal software now you will become a relevant person to talk about it. They could never manage to get to the Silicon Valley and make all those nice effects in Photoshop that you use now if they didn't use pirated software before, because they could never afford it. Also, all those companies that whine how many billions of dollars they lost due to piracy actually don't tell the truth. Because they could never sell their legal software in those countries where pirated software is used. So, they actually lost much less then they claim. Do you really expect someone from China to buy legal software when they work 12 hours a day without weekend for a fraction of money that western world earns for 40 hours of work per week?? The same thing is with musicians. It's important to them to make money of course, but publicity is even more important. They know very well if there is no piracy, no one in china would never hear for them. Thanks to piracy, they can make a tour in china and earn millions by making concerts.
You have to look a little deeper Microbius. Piracy is illegal, but some people are taking a good advantage of it. Those people are smart. You can think of me whatever you want. I don't care. The fact is that this thread is read 3187 times till now, and only you and I are the only ones who are exchanging thoughts here.
547
« on: June 06, 2010, 18:24 »
I got this message in my stockfresh inbox: Dear Dreamframer, Thank you very much for your interest in selling your work at Stockfresh! We are very excited that so many of you have faith in our new project. At the moment there are already over 300 pending contributor applications, which is absolutely amazing. We would like to ask for your patience as we sort through all the applications. It might take a while because we would like to grow our customer and contributor base side by side, and we might not be able to let everyone in immediately. At the moment we are working on our first marketing campaigns. If all goes well, we can start opening the gates soon. If not, well, we don't even want to think about that!  Once again we would like to thank you for your interest and please don't worry about the delay. We will take care of the application when things start happening! Best regards, The Stockfresh Team
548
« on: June 06, 2010, 16:57 »
I teach at a university in Melbourne, Australia. Most of my students use pirated software. I discourage it, but it's pretty deeply entrenched. The problem (as I see it) is that it takes quite a mature person to appreciate the ethical issues surrounding intellectual property. By the time people are able to think about it seriously they have been using pirated material for 10 years or more without a qualm. Very difficult for them to repudiate such habitual attitude and behaviour. Besides, most people take their ethics from their peers. Look what ordinary people will do in times of war or disaster.
Exactly. The country is in so deep sh*t, that no one cares about copyright. All you could hear here if you say pirated software and movies is illegal is: "F*ck them, they bombed us and we already paid them for everything". And that's all. I'm sorry I had to say this, but in the end I had to say it, because I didn't know how to explain the difference between people here and people there regarding pirated things. People still get reminded to rockets and NATO bombing 1999 when they hear commercial airplane on the sky. So, we are talking about some kind of revenge here, not just simple stealing of copyrighted material. But, to go a little back to the subject, I think that youtube thing, and madelaide's post is child's game comparing to some other pirated things. It's waaaay less harmful. I also found this link that tells about percent of illegal software in Russia. Just check it out. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35298730The U.S. research firm IDC estimated that about 80 percent of software sold in China last year was pirated. And here is a table: 43 percent of world software is pirated. THE NUMBERS: Rates of software piracy - 2000 2009 China 94% 79% Russia 88% 67% Brazil 58% 56% World 37% 43% Germany 28% 28% Japan 37% 21% United States 24% 20% And this is only for software sold in markets. No one mentions software downloaded from internet. If you want more data you can google for it. This is only for biggest countries as you can see.
549
« on: June 06, 2010, 15:56 »
I noticed that you keep saying that I am trying to excuse myself. I guess there is no point to repeat that I am not talking about myself here. I am describing the situation in this part of the world.
How come you don't know the difference between their and they're? Are you kidding or..?
550
« on: June 06, 2010, 12:40 »
Microbius, you can think whatever you want, but I live here, and I know that even companies started to use legal software only few years ago. Until then, all companies had even illegal Windows, not to mention Office and the rest. Your roots are maybe from this parts of the world, but obviously you don't get that even on this forum, nice percent of photographers use cracked PS. I can say I'm lucky to have a legal version of it, and I'm very happy for it, but for example, I don't know anyone from my city who actually use a legal version of it. Do you really think people can afford legal PS if they have 200 euros monthly salary? About 50% of people in Serbia don't even pay national TV, simply because they think it's too expensive, and that's why our national TV tries to sue half of the nation for that. People are thinking exactly this: "If everyone can do it, I can do it". And they are convinced the country can't punish them all. Do you really expect people will pay to Hollywood if they don't pay their own country for tv program? I worked for a company that introduced legal Windows 2 years ago, and before it we were using illegal version, of course. In nineties all country watched pirated movies even on national television, not to mention local tv stations. Just jump to any of those pirated websites, and see how many times cracked PS is downloaded. We are talking about tens of thousands times.
So, please, save your story for someone who doesn't live here. Private property is very important to me, that's why I am posting in this thread, because we are talking about stolen images. Otherwise, I wouldn't say anything. I would probably just think how naive all these photographers are to think that they can keep their images save from theft. I know how these things work because I live among people where every house with a computer has tens of thousand of dollars in pirated movies, pirated music and cracked software. Here, you can buy DVD's on the street for 3 Euros, filled with cracked software. People are selling them normally. They don't even hide. That's why I know so much about it, and that's why you don't know a dam thing about it. That's why you think that people who use coyrighted material are only minority. For me, picture looks completely different. I see vast majority using cracked everything, and companies that are right now trying to implement minimum of legal software besides windows. They are all using open office and other freebies, just because they don't want expenses on that side.
You say, if you can't afford to watch movies, don't watch them. Well, let me tell you something. I believe San Jose, CA, has more movie theaters than my country altogether. Do you really expect people to sit and cry because they can't watch new movie?? Of course not They will search internet, and find tons of pirated posts with the same movie, and watch it. Some video clubs here still rent pirated movies. I am trying to say that piracy is much much bigger problem than you guys from the west think. I spent in California 6 months, and I was always west-oriented, and I know both sides. I know that piracy is a taboo for you, and I understand you can't understand that here, piracy is still welcomed. People here don't give a dam for your copyright. You still know only one side.
You are trying to stick the word thief on my back, so everyone could laugh at me, just because I openly talk about these things, and because I live in a society where it's normal to have a collection of pirated movies in your house. I would let you laugh, no problem. But at the same thing, people from the east are laughing at you because you are paying for something they get for free, anytime, the newest version, with tons of plugins and other goodies...even people from this forum who are reading this post, and keep silent. But they are probably smarter than me, because I could also keep it silent, and laugh instead of sharing some of my thoughts with people. If you list the history of my posts, you will wind that I posted in every single thread about piracy here, because I live in this society and I know so much about it, not because I am a thief. Right now, I can give you a full list of pirated websites, and most of them are Russian. I bet you would be amazed how many of them are online right now. And so on, and so on.... Actually, I think I won't post about it anymore because obviously I'm the one who suffers from consequences. Why would I spend my time explaining something to someone who doesn't want to understand.
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