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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 08, 2014, 12:32:23 AM »

OK. Thanks everyone. I will ignore their letter while I read the posts on this forum.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 06, 2014, 06:11:25 PM »

Sadly, I just found the photographer. 
If you scroll to the right on his website, you'll find the photo.
Apparently he is a good one because he has a lot of celebrities photos. They're pretty good.
Also, look at his contact details. I'm definitely screwed. 

Google: Donfloodphoto.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 05, 2014, 01:58:19 PM »

Thanks for the advice about Pixabay. I really appreciate it Robert.
Now, I would like to read your opinion about the main topic: August Image and their extortion letter.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 05, 2014, 12:48:43 PM »

I made this website for free as a gift for a relative who lives in the US. It's a website promoting his business.
Because of this, I used about 30 photos I found on Google Image Search (stupid move, I now know it).

But now, I already removed all the photos and replaced them with some I found on Pixabay.com because the website has some reputation providing Free Public Domain Photos from different photographers around the world.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 05, 2014, 09:57:27 AM »

So, you're saying that I have to remove all the photos from Pixabay as well?
How I'll get the photos? If I can't pay $600 for this settlement, I can't pay more than $1,000 to get all the photos I need from sites that provide them for a fee.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 05, 2014, 09:30:47 AM »

I already replaced all the images on my website with others that I found here: www.pixabay.com
Others have just ignored the e-mails from Getty Image. Is this a good idea?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New extorting company: August

« on: November 04, 2014, 11:19:01 PM »

The photo was from a celebrity named Jaimie Alexander. I didn't knew it was from her until yesterday.
Would you like a link to the photo?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / New extorting company: August

« on: November 04, 2014, 08:27:16 PM »

Hello,

I would like your help regarding a new company that has sent me an extortion letter via e-mail.
This company is very similar to Getty Images. I don't know if they're the same but they certainly do the same thing. The new company is called "August" or "August Image".

I made a website recently. As it was my first website ever made, a novice like me, used some photos I got from Google Image Search. I didn't knew that some photos there were copyrighted until recently when I received the e-mail.

This company took a screen capture of my website showing a photo that they say they own the rights to.
I removed the photo right away along with all the photos in the website. However, in the e-mail they said that this is not enough and that they want compensation because I have "benefited from the unlicensed photo".

They want a $600 dollars settlement payment. I don't have that amount. In fact, this website is not even finished yet. No ads. No customer. No nothing.

I'm really scared because of this and I would like your help in this matter. I have a few bucks in my PayPal account that I can send you as donation, but again, is not that much because I don't even have a work yet.

Please, read the complete e-mail they sent me. I posted the link below.
I removed all the personal information.

Here's the e-mail link:

http://i.imgur.com/Wpkpslm.jpg
or
http://imgur.com/Wpkpslm


I really hope you can help me with this. I'll be really thankful.
I'll wait for your response. Thanks in advance.