this is a bad joke or? 

And believe me there will be still a lot of people with active accounts on SS in six months who will keep moaning and comparing monthly progress from $0.96 to $1.34. It's definetely time for them to remove Business and Healthcare categories from uploader and rename their remaning ones to specify BBQ grill manufacturers and breeds of cats.
 

Where do you get 5c and consequent doom for Mstock (which has been imminent for the 6 years I've been doing this) from?

I'm not signing some stupid petition.

Everyone should have some pride and pull their portfolios from Shutterstock.

And then what? If I had to pull my port from any agency that announces some new plan, I could quit microstock altogether.
Not defending SS here, but there's hardly a decent agency left.

Quote from: Shelma1 on February 02, 2017, 05:14

I'm not signing some stupid petition.

Everyone should have some pride and pull their portfolios from Shutterstock.

And then what? If I had to pull my port from any agency that announces some new plan, I could quit microstock altogether.
Not defending SS here, but there's hardly a decent agency left.

Just bitterly repeating what so many people said about signing the iStock petition. Despite repeated warnings that other agencies would be watching our reaction and would follow suit with 2 cent royalties. So here we go.

Quote from: Noedelhap on February 02, 2017, 06:47

Quote from: Shelma1 on February 02, 2017, 05:14

I'm not signing some stupid petition.

Everyone should have some pride and pull their portfolios from Shutterstock.

And then what? If I had to pull my port from any agency that announces some new plan, I could quit microstock altogether.
Not defending SS here, but there's hardly a decent agency left.

Just bitterly repeating what so many people said about signing the iStock petition. Despite repeated warnings that other agencies would be watching our reaction and would follow suit with 2 cent royalties. So here we go.

Again...where are these 2c royalties on SS. I'm not saying its a good thing but why catastrophise everything......

To really do it they have to start with editorials.

Quote from: Daryl Ray on February 02, 2017, 07:02

They gotta pay for that second floor they just started renting in the Empire State Building somehow.

Could you imagine how great a company Shutterstock could be if they respected where their content came from as much as they indulge themselves? If only they chose to pay contributors fairly instead of blowing ridiculous amounts of their profits on excessive luxuries like some of the most expensive office space in the world...

Isn't that just the way capitalism should work, that the ones that happen to be in the right place, in the right time and made a move get all the luxuries while others gather crumbs? It's all in vain since there will always be someone somewhere who will work for almost nothing out of desperation and deliver the same quality. It happening in the whole world, in every industry. Why would microstock be an exception?

Sadly you are correct......the internet amongst other things is increasing the gap between winners and losers we are moving towards a super rich vs peasants world. Marx was right!

shutterstock is ending the same way stock. but the content is also much worst...lot of scammers, spammers...million of ugly files...model and food photography so * poor.....who ids buying this stuff?
i mean if i were somebody who have a business i will go directly to stocksy...if i not even have 10 euro to pay an image for a project what kind of business is this?

in my opinion there is pac for a real cooperative of talented stockers to recreate something similar to stock or ss in the first year. don't know the cost of such a project.

i went to the forum to look..

i am even more surprised that big sellers like sjlocke,etc are not saying anything to this.
here, i am waiting for jo-anne, and of course, sjlocke,etc.. to tune in.

the only thing i read worth shouting is the one who was smart enough to say,
give us an OPT-OUT.

perharps, we should get that choice.