wow, that is surprising that bigstock outsells stockxpert and almost dreamstime for you... quite different than the average submitter.

DT is quite a way ahead of BigStock overall, but on recent history they are poor. BigStock still outsells SX for me though, whichever period I compare them over. I have got more than twice the number of images at BigStock, but then I expect that most people have.

Actually Shutterstock raised their photographer cut from 25 to 30c last year, which was a 20% raise.

Of course any company/individual who is prepared to shell out what is usually a three figure sum for a subscription package is unlikely to go elsewhere to buy your particular image if it's unavailable. They'll just download something similar by somebody else.

Disabling subscription downloads may be fine if everybody does it, but that's unlikely and it would be a long haul before the subscribers actually noticed the difference.

Even then although you might win the war with some agencies, those subscribers will probably just sign up with Shutterstock. And I doubt you'll make much of a dent in their sales to be honest. In fact I suspect that although many might close the door on StockXpert subscription downloads, they'd be unlikely to remove all their images from Shutterstock. Which would make it a pyrrhic victory surely?