Hello everybody,
Let's sort everything out. We're certainly not thieves, and we're not enemy of all contributors nor we're sharing your files for free on Twitter (was that serious?).
1. We have strong duplicate detection. It's not perfect but it does a pretty good job. So my guess it that 95% of the files are recognized as dupes and the rest is either new or somehow more compressed than it is on the other site.
2. Violators: We take everything pretty seriously and even though it may seem like we don't know the buyer's size of shoes, we do know buyers e-mail address and more importantly payment details via PayPal or Credit Card, so it's pretty secure. Does anyone of you think that other sites are any more secure where you can basically fill in any made up personal info and hotmail address if you so choose to do so?
3. The content we're getting from FT and DT is treated very seriously. We don't publish anything without watermarks and we don't even release hi-res files until it's sold. Also, no FT or DT image is sold via subscription on Pixmac everything is pay as you go.
4. Guys, you should be able to choose on FT and DT to opt-out third party distributors. That's what we've been told.
Finally. Yes we're here to make money were a business, but obviously not without you on our side. Is there really someone who thinks that by stealing and violating rights we will grow and make significant sales without being spotted? Honestly? Also, there is no need to be offensive we are also people not them. We welcome any feedback and advice on reasonable ideas that we can implement (as we already did many times)
Thank you.
And thanks to everyone who sees Pixmac as a serious business and have supported us so far.
Vitezslav Valka, CEO & Simon Raybould, Director of Sales & Marketing North America.
Note from Simon Cheesy? I take offence to that..hold on, let me just change my ipod over from Michael Bolton to Celine Dion.
The world keeps turning (and I keep getting dizzy)
One last serious note
www.pixmac.com is a pretty good site (we hope) for users. We
genuinly believe its a worthwhile tool in a designers toolbox.