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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 21:20 »
Another trick was block Google photo indexing on my site.

I would employ a click bank and drive up 1000's of view and submit the url to an indexing service. But not with any ads running. Then start google analytics and alexa indexing.

Sell the site off with a 100k fake views under the pretext it's my own work.


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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 21:11 »
Takes money to make money.

I'll pay for good work. Alter what I have too and sell it in a collection.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 20:35 »
and selling on places like photoshelter and other hosting platforms is good


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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 20:21 »
Falling for it....

You already have.

You guys post on Facebook, or put your profile out there...

Sooner or later there will be a unlocked door.

And granted most of your work sucks, but there's still a few gems to pick up.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:53 »
Just do a Piratebay search and you'll get an idea.....

https://thepiratebay.org/search/shutterstock/0/99/0

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:48 »
Somebody wants attention.

I've moved on...

MS has dried up. Over saturated. Lots of good work...being sold for pennies.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:45 »
Video is more work

Cropping HD or zooming slightly with your clips can work.

Or just adding various filters can work.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:42 »
For a while I giving a free USB stick to local companies.

I set up a website and charged for subscriptions


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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:35 »
It's a digital medium... just like movies that can be pirated.


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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:33 »
Of course.... hitting up local print shops and gypo art shops works too

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:31 »
Other tricks include using a 3d program

Apply the image as a texture to a plane then add something like Ambient occlusion.

Most viewers can not see the difference but it will get by the AI.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:28 »
Or take the center of the subject matter.... person etc...

Crop it and add another background with some blur.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:25 »
I am being serious here...

I sometime pay for a really good image and crop it or combine it with another top selling image. Defeating the AI was the biggest challenge.... not the dopey reviewers.

Just reversing orientation of the image many times works.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:20 »
And I sell collections on Ebay etc...


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Image Sleuth / Re: Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:20 »
Most of the time I sell in SEO forums for the Blackhat crowd

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Image Sleuth / Confessions of a MiroStock Thief
« on: December 21, 2017, 19:16 »
Well, time to retire.

No more money in it. Thanks for the easy pickins...

Ask me anything

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