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Title: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Lev on October 29, 2020, 12:27
Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto)

Check if yours are also there.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: cathyslife on October 29, 2020, 12:44
How do those even get approved? Apparently they don’t have out of focus rejections anymore. What a bunch of garbage. “Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.” Peace and truth ... and money off other people’s back! ... in blurriness? LOL

106 pages of that garbage.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: marthamarks on October 29, 2020, 12:48
Wow. Just wow. No other words.

Makes me even happier to be rid of Shitterstock!
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Digital on October 29, 2020, 18:21
So when Shutterstock ask for ID verification, can I send them a completely blurred scan?
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: marthamarks on October 29, 2020, 18:50
So when Shutterstock ask for ID verification, can I send them a completely blurred scan?

LOL
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Mimi the Cat on October 30, 2020, 03:39
Seems I've been going about this stock photo business all wrong

I should invest in stealing other peoples images and blurring them and there was me thinking everything had to be my own work and in focus without noise  ;D
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Mimi the Cat on October 30, 2020, 03:39
Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto)

Check if yours are also there.

I take it that you reported this dog?
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: mino216 on October 30, 2020, 03:58
How do those even get approved? Apparently they don’t have out of focus rejections anymore. What a bunch of garbage. “Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.” Peace and truth ... and money off other people’s back! ... in blurriness? LOL

106 pages of that garbage.

They do have a lot of focus rejections. Especially if the image is sharp :-D Getting lot of rejection because of sharpness for full frame camera images but almost none for images from 1.0-inch compact camera.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: changingsky on October 30, 2020, 05:32
Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto)

Check if yours are also there.
Screen name does not correspond the url
Didik+yulianto  vs Musashi akira - so definetely it is not "Im nippon freelancer journalist" how he (or she - Yulia, then you can guess) wrote. Keyword "japanese" on this port returns Malaysia-Indonesia stuff.
But SS does not care even the fraud is evident.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Elmtree on October 30, 2020, 07:26
Thanks for the tip off.

Having just looked through a few pages of his blurred images I found one of mine stolen from an exclusive Getty Rights Managed, now RR, HD video.

A frame from an HD video made into a blurred still and Shutterstock accepted it. Just appalling.

Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Noedelhap on October 30, 2020, 08:02
Thanks for the tip off.

Having just looked through a few pages of his blurred images I found one of mine stolen from an exclusive Getty Rights Managed, now RR, HD video.

A frame from an HD video made into a blurred still and Shutterstock accepted it. Just appalling.



Report him immediately, time to get this thief off of the platform asap.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Hannafate on October 30, 2020, 08:40
There has been speculation for years that Shutterstock is involved in money laundering.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: marthamarks on October 30, 2020, 10:52
There has been speculation for years that Shutterstock is involved in money laundering.

 :o
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Mimi the Cat on October 30, 2020, 10:53
There has been speculation for years that Shutterstock is involved in money laundering.

Someone should tell the FBI  ;D
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: thx9000 on October 30, 2020, 11:43
Someone should push the concept even further - blur screenshots from 4K bluray rips of iconic movies and upload them as a collection.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: noelbennett235 on October 30, 2020, 12:59
Great achievement all the same. If I submitted those they would be rejected for being out of focus. Before I suspended my SS account I came to the conclusion that SS had gone to war with their contributors and yet this slips through.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: cathyslife on October 30, 2020, 16:10
Great achievement all the same. If I submitted those they would be rejected for being out of focus. Before I suspended my SS account I came to the conclusion that SS had gone to war with their contributors and yet this slips through.

That was my point. When I was submitting, even when I would submit food shots with shallow DOFs they would get rejected for out of focus.

SS has to either be a) paying these people to create huge bogus portfolios to beef up their site totals and BS their shareholders, or b) just giving special treatment to some people, not really caring what they submit. Either way, it’s garbage.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: WendyT on October 30, 2020, 18:30
wow .... I get rejections because something is not 100% in focus and if I submit a deliberate blurred image that also get rejected for not having the main subject in focus ... how do these get accepted, regardless of how they come by the images.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: gnirtS on October 30, 2020, 19:13
I think this thread has accidentally stumbled on how to not get the ridiculous focus rejections.
Just put the word "blurred" in every description.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: vectorsforall on October 31, 2020, 04:25
Unbelievable and outrageous Shuttercrap!
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Hannafate on October 31, 2020, 07:40
The theory is that there is a crooked reviewer who deliberately approves whole portfolios of images nobody would actually buy.  Then, the gang uses stolen credit card information to buy gobs of these images.  The "photographer" collects the payout as legitimate earnings.

This theory is less plausible with lowered payments, but, as has been pointed out, there are still some high dollar sales. 

Even with a very low percentage of earnings, it's still "free" money.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Copidosoma on October 31, 2020, 10:05
For those who missed it and are wondering how these could possibly have slipped past the reviewers...

There is a thing called "background blur" which is footage or stills that are intentionally blurred (while still retaining some of the information about what is actually going on in the scene). They are actually very common in ads (used for backgrounds) and if you keep your eye out for them you will see them all over the place. They were pretty hot on SS for a few weeks about two years ago.

If you can't tell the difference between this and "my full frame DSLR creates super thin DOF where 10% of the image is in near focus but the reviewers keep rejecting it Whaaaa" then you need to take a step back and think about it a bit I think.

Having said all that, this is another great example of fraudsters and thieves making money off the backs of legit contributors. Hopefully Shutterstock does something that shows they take this seriously, I've given up waiting for them to do so. This portfolio may get removed but the original creators of the material will not see a penny of what was stolen from them.

So glad I pulled my images/video from SS. Although the whole industry is not in a great place these days.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: cathyslife on October 31, 2020, 10:34
LOL yeah, we all know the difference. Those 106 pages aren’t “background blur” or anything useful blur.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: everest on October 31, 2020, 10:34
Its amazing what a huge garbage dump Shutterstock has become. Sad, abusive and low value.........what's not to like from this place.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: changingsky on October 31, 2020, 13:01
wow .... I get rejections because something is not 100% in focus and if I submit a deliberate blurred image that also get rejected for not having the main subject in focus ... how do these get accepted, regardless of how they come by the images.
They can be accepted, only with the support of responsable employees of SS. I don't believe that "employees games" could last so long and repeat not being noticed, then .... Do you remember discussed here multiple cases when one thief was removed immediately and to remove others the process takes months? Ask why? Who is interested? Who earns? Can we check if those ports were not heavily promoted by SS in general or per customer?
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Copidosoma on October 31, 2020, 13:03
LOL yeah, we all know the difference.

Based on some of the comments here I'm not so sure about the "all" part.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: YadaYadaYada on October 31, 2020, 20:52
LOL yeah, we all know the difference.

Based on some of the comments here I'm not so sure about the "all" part.

Apophenia, the tendency to incorrectly, infer patterns or connections in unrelated input, can be considered a commonplace effect of brain function. Taken to an extreme, however, it can be a symptom of psychiatric dysfunction. Paranoia
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: stryjek on November 02, 2020, 12:12
Shutterstock make 80% of profit from this scam , so why would they care ? they not responsible for what he does , at the end of the month they will just stop his payment , 100% of profit for Shitterstock
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Mrblues101 on November 02, 2020, 17:25
How do those even get approved? Apparently they don’t have out of focus rejections anymore. What a bunch of garbage. “Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.” Peace and truth ... and money off other people’s back! ... in blurriness? LOL

106 pages of that garbage.

Rules for thiefs are more permissive at SS...
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Uncle Pete on December 16, 2020, 10:59
Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto)

Check if yours are also there.

And the account is still there!

Yeah, worth repeating:  Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.

Time to write again.

[email protected]

Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: alexandersr on December 16, 2020, 18:23
Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto)

Check if yours are also there.

And the account is still there!

Yeah, worth repeating:  Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.

Time to write again.

[email protected]
I wonder how the people who check the images accept them, because some people here have said that they have had some rejections in out of focus images.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: sharpshot on December 18, 2020, 03:53
As this portfolio is still up, does that mean that Shutterstock is fine with anyone using another persons images and blurring them? Seems like a crazy policy but as they haven't banned this person, that's what they're telling us.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: changingsky on December 19, 2020, 12:50
As this portfolio is still up, does that mean that Shutterstock is fine with anyone using another persons images and blurring them? Seems like a crazy policy but as they haven't banned this person, that's what they're telling us.
As it was mentioned above, this should be a "special" person or not a person at all.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: OM on January 03, 2021, 09:22
As this portfolio is still up, does that mean that Shutterstock is fine with anyone using another persons images and blurring them? Seems like a crazy policy but as they haven't banned this person, that's what they're telling us.

Yep. Still up in21. SS is clearly YOUR pardner in crime for wannabee imagecrims.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: WaterView on January 10, 2021, 20:09
That was really hard to look at and the profile statement about peace is pathetic. Many pics seem to be blurred of really high end. The unfairness of any copiers not paying original copyright holders for their sales is pathetic and deserves a copyright lawyer.

A few minutes later...
I wonder if I should republish and resubmit all my images and videos blurred with blurred in description and keywords, easily doubling my portfolio maybe? (Slightly sarcastic but, who knows how much images like these sell? Any ideas? (lol)
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: WaterView on January 10, 2021, 20:54
Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto)

Check if yours are also there.

And the account is still there!

Yeah, worth repeating:  Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.

Time to write again.

[email protected]
I wonder how the people who check the images accept them, because some people here have said that they have had some rejections in out of focus images.

I sent [email protected] an email with a link to https://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/thief-makes-screenshots-from-stock-videos-blurs-them-and-sells-on-shutterstock/?action=post;quote=559451;last_msg=560190 (https://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/thief-makes-screenshots-from-stock-videos-blurs-them-and-sells-on-shutterstock/?action=post;quote=559451;last_msg=560190)  post thread
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: BigLeague on January 11, 2021, 06:32
how is this portfolio still live, over 2 months ago it was reported? should be down within a few days. Did shutterstock reply to whoever reported it?
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: alex_n on January 11, 2021, 11:51
Copyright holder, please report this infringement to [email protected], not to [email protected]
The first email was helpful for me several months ago. The second one was something like speaking to the wall.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: zsooofija on January 14, 2021, 08:13
Is this a joke???
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/blurred-abstract-background-various-coffe-latte-1575440875 (https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/blurred-abstract-background-various-coffe-latte-1575440875)
Is it just me, or the image has the blurred SS watermark.. under the actual watermark. LOL
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Uncle Pete on January 14, 2021, 08:24
Is this a joke???
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/blurred-abstract-background-various-coffe-latte-1575440875 (https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/blurred-abstract-background-various-coffe-latte-1575440875)
Is it just me, or the image has the blurred SS watermark.. under the actual watermark. LOL

Do I need a new monitor? I don't see that.
(https://image.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/1575440875/display_1500/photo.jpg)

But I wouldn't put it past some of these people who steal images to do that.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: zsooofija on January 14, 2021, 08:29
here
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: zsooofija on January 14, 2021, 08:33
Than it must be a glitch. Still weird.
Title: Re: Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock
Post by: Uncle Pete on January 14, 2021, 08:42
Than it must be a glitch. Still weird.

Well I see it now, but my screen doesn't look like that. I thought maybe my crap monitor was missing details.  8)

I miss the big old Sony CRT that was just perfect and showed real colors and had excellent differentiation. Dell flat screen, which I should really buy something better.

Yeah, nice screen capture.  :) On the other hand, I went and reported the account again, maybe someone will actually look?