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Quote from: jonbull on January 03, 2019, 18:24
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Strange somebody selling stolen images from unsplash... and by the way indian... strange)) .. in the last year hundred of indian account with stolen images .

You made me actually go out and search for some of my images on unsplash.... I don't have a lot so this is easy, but there search is horrible. Try searching some of your images, the results are just terrible

Guess this could be a good thing though, not for them, and not for me looking for stolen photos but I can see it being frustrating from a customer perspective.



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I took a look at Unsplash and it's actually stupid funny. Three word descriptions, most are wrong, many others are somewhat like the spam uploads on SS, "man, taking, photo" Really, wow what an important description to make the photo show in a search?  Red car on white background. And since I looked at cars, they have a F1 car listed as Go Cart, an Indy Car listed as F1 car, and some that say things like time lapse of car, which isn't a time lapse but a panning blur.

So for someone slow, why would anyone put anything up on that site? I mean people who actually took the photos not some thief or maybe someone looking for likes or something? Why?

I'd consider posting something there that's terrible, as a joke? Or maybe... OK just the one question, why would anyone upload to that site?

Our Culture has changed for the worse I'm afraid. It's not more important to get "likes" and retweets than it is is to earn a living and support a family. So to answer your question, I think the primary motivation is social acceptance. The hatred of capitalism has spread so badly that people actually think they are social justice warriors by giving away what they worked to produce.

I'd be curious to see the percentage that are actually stolen.... I thought about it to, how long do you think the site will last? They don't seem to be very interested in dealing with DMCA, just the attitude I got from reading their site on the subject. And what do people get from buying images from SS or others and putting them up on a free site? I can see trying to sell, wrong, but at least it's logical.

I searched for a complete title of one of my images and got completely unrelated images. For instance, a search for valley forge returned

-a bird
-a tree line with skyline
- another bird
-a few welders
-An actual forge (like the metal working forge.... which makes sense... )
-a city in Italy

The birds aren't even in an identifiable location, so Valley Forge isn't even logical there.

And looking at the names of the descriptions, "man holding welding rod".  Where in the world did their search get forge out of that!

I won't even get started on the City in Italy because it's way off base.




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Quote from: jonbull on January 03, 2019, 18:24
https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/96070-yet-another-thief/


Strange somebody selling stolen images from unsplash... and by the way indian... strange)) .. in the last year hundred of indian account with stolen images .

You made me actually go out and search for some of my images on unsplash.... I don't have a lot so this is easy, but there search is horrible. Try searching some of your images, the results are just terrible

Guess this could be a good thing though, not for them, and not for me looking for stolen photos but I can see it being frustrating from a customer perspective.



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That's what I figured, just curious really.

I know that sounded like a dumb question but these are the things you think of after two 16 hour works days and before coffee kicks in.

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I don't know if anyone has ever had this issue but some of my images I have in a few different places. How would one be able to confirm that a usage is legit and purchased from any of the stock sites if that same image might be on your personal portfolio making it an easy target for theft?

Honestly don't think there is any way to see but I'm curious if any of the stock sites put any effort into this at all


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Quote from: increasingdifficulty on November 28, 2017, 17:09

From "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day", to diamonds, to Valentine's Day (and now Single's Day).

Gees, singles day? first I've heard of that... maybe a new microstock market 

In all seriousness though, I have to agree with the sentiments of the original responders here. Without customers, you've got nothing. Unfortunately, I don't have many ideas beyond really good SEO and a lot of marketing dollars to AdWords, which in and of itself is a risky game.

The blockchain idea I do find interesting and I would add that it's more than just interesting, it would give a new business (and again the right customer base) an edge over existing microstock sites. Bitcoin transactions are much cheaper than credit cards and even paypal. Hell with the price of a stamp they'd be cheaper than a check too. but again as everyone here has said without customers and in this case the RIGHT customer who WANTS to use Bitcoin or any other crypto, it's pointless.

Sure wish I had studied SEO and Adwords better when I was younger, I'm trying to make up for it now but hey... hindsight is 20/20

Speaking of that 20/20 visions... I sold my coins and quite mining years ago. Back then I thought to myself it'll never go high than $300 ... then a year later $1000....   Now I'm kicking myself in the butt... few months ago when the price was like $4k I looked at it and compared prices, I'm scared to look today.

thanks for all the replies and sorry for the delay. Life has been busy this past week or so.

So far I'm very happy with Stock Submiter. I have a lot to learn it seems. I don't think the program verifying if it is indeed accepted is a huge deal, was just curious. So far I haven't really had any problems I would say. Just trying to figure it out as I go.

Quote from: steheap on July 11, 2017, 16:44
Hi Rob

I wrote a couple of long (and free - if Cathy is reading this) blog posts about using Stock Submitter. I didn't investigate the status question (although I think I saw something in an option about that - I should investigate!).

Anywhere, my post is here:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/02/stock-submitter-istock-esp-new-alamy-supertags/

Steve

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply! It was your book that got me this far by the way! Heard you on improve photography I think it was last week and was intrigued. I'll take a look over on your blog again. Iv been slowly trying to read it as time permits.

Having a basic understanding of how software like STocksubmitter works with the agencies I think it is possible. It already communicates in some way more than just FTP (submits) so I'm curious if it does it on its own. Iv been doing it manually and felt a little weird then asked myself the question above ... maybe I'm just being lazy. It'd be awesome though!

Thanks again for the reply.


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Good evening.... I'm just starting out with stock and I've been going through (slowly) my catalog of photos and finding what I can and think should be good for Stock.

One thing I've been playing with is StockSubmitter. I love the program so far but I've got a few questions. I apologies if this is in the wrong place or I've missed a manual somewhere for it and know it's simple to use but my brain is weird sometimes.


The biggest question I have now is: Does Stocksubmitter fetch the status of images. So I see it updates the status for ready to upload, and then pending once submitted, but can it/does it have the ability to fetch if the agency has approved the image? I think I might be asking alot but it seems to know when the agency is ready for a file to be submitted and can do that I so I thought it might be able to. So far I've just been manually going through images as they get approved to mark them approved.

2nd.... how does everyone else work with the program. I feel like I'm going to put one for 2 keywords on files in lightroom and then use Stocksubmitter do the real keywording. I feel like it does a better job than LR in the keyword department (then again that's what it was designed for)

Finally, for now. I don't understand the countdown for submitting? If I submit, it does it's thing then restarts. Are we checking the agency server's for updates on the images (as mentioned in number 1?) what are the pros/cons to leaving it run and keep submitting or why would I want to it submit over and over every 15 minutes?


Sorry if these are amateur questions, or if they have been addressed else-ware. If I've missed the manual somewhere, I am very sorry, can someone point me to it?

Thanks and thanks for a great program... loving it so far!

Rob

The verification here is awesome too.... questions topic related and something we should all know.... but why Nikon! lol