...today my next step was deleting all the links from my Homepage and opting out of promotional use. I will do as much as I can to stop such behaviour.

I`m sick and tired of this corporate a****le behaviour, not only speaking of istock...
just look at the whole financial crisis, the food quality dilemma,...and we always hear the same crap: "NOT ENOUGH GROWTH"...just as istock statet!

People are not only angry becajuse of the recent changes. It is a lack of confidence: every now and then there had been a - usually unpleasant - surprise from istock. May it be best match, canister changes, contract changes, thinkstock etc. You simply CANNOT do reliable business with people like this.

Beyong that, look at the "exclusive" concept. It is a "slavery" concept of photographer exclusivity instead of material exclusivity. With this they built up a nice Trap for all esxclusives beeing unable to build a distributed Portfolio. I never understood how people could accept this type of contract.

Sure, we are talking about business, and you have to cool down in many ocassions in order to do professional business, but enough is enough.

Somebody who is a native english speaker and is located in the states please form a union. You have my (financially and timewise) support.

Thank you