You're absolutely right - it's a shame on them that their system sees, but their inspectors don't, I tried to tell them this a few years ago, but they just don't react. But still, if they heard you and you poked their noses into direct theft of the whole picture, they will remove the thief, another thing is when part of one image is used to create another, they brazenly say to your faces "not the same". It's amazing and some new level of shamelessness.

When I was shooting, I didn�t see anything, I discovered it accidentally a few years later, sorting through the archives. Everything was shooted by me in RAW format. In the third photo it�s definitely strange and quite noticeable, but what gives it meaning is that there is a series of photos with a difference of 10 seconds on which there is also something, although without the third photo itself it would never have attracted attention. Obviously something is coming in the sky.

I don�t know what it is and I�m not saying it�s a UFO, but it�s definitely not a helicopter or a drone, it�s a bearish corner, there are only a couple of villages at the foot of the mountain range, and it was in 2012

It has long been known that the shutterstock is full of fraudlent content and they are in no hurry to remove it. But they seem to encourage theft and refuse to admit the obvious.
For several years they have had a fraudulent image 1731403384 https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-photo/panoramic-view-lake-mountains-1731403384 ,
two of my photos are used there 60864760 https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-photo/mountain-lake-60864760
and 34936861 https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-photo/mountain-lake-34936861
I repeatedly wrote to them in different places about this and always received some kind of nonsense in response and an offer to write somewhere else, once they replied that the images are "not the same". I  wrote recently back in detail with attached a reference images and this is what they replied- "Upon review, the alleged infringed image id 1731403384 was compared to your accompanying image which demonstrates or exhibits they are "not the same" as our earlier reviewer Lynne had stated.
Thank you.".
I don�t understand what is happening at all, are they completely insolent and feel their impunity? Once they pretended to respect us, called us partners, and now they spit in the face of those who have been with them from the very beginning and thanks to whom they have become what they have become.

When were your "mega sales" made?

October 25 and already in completed transactions.

OMG, one more for $1500 but from November 14
It seems like some mistake.

Waiting since 03.03, 27 days today. I stopped uploading and wrote them about it, I think fotolia is bankrupt..