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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Seattle Times full page statement

« on: July 20, 2012, 04:00:20 PM »

we need this guy across from Getty offices with a big assed sign

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: An Experiment Against Getty

« on: July 19, 2012, 05:31:57 PM »

"Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo"

Khan

adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Yet another recent blog post

« on: July 19, 2012, 02:12:00 PM »

Well hells bells, I'm glad I didn't read it all the way thru, no I don't have to, nor do I need to waste my time commenting on it..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Yet another recent blog post

« on: July 18, 2012, 08:42:18 PM »

I stumbled upon this one this morning, I haven't had a chance to read and digest the entire post ( it's very long) which I wanted to do today to be able to make some comments..however it's not going to happen today so here it is, I'll give the ELI family first opportunity to share your thoughts, opinions..

http://dentingmyuniverse.com/tag/getty-images-demand-letter/

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: An Experiment Against Getty

« on: July 18, 2012, 07:52:48 PM »

Damn! you deserve something....don't know what but something.

and for troll Beiker

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Parody of the Dallas TV Intro

« on: July 18, 2012, 06:57:36 PM »

same here..I think youtube, bet it was the music. I think youtube has some sort of filter...much like picscout..but maybe i'm wrong.

Matthew, I tried to view the video and it gave me the message that the video was removed by the user?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty and Picscout

« on: July 18, 2012, 05:00:03 PM »

Picscout rummages thru every directory on your server, unless the directory is password protected, everything in their eyes is fair game..you could try to tell them to show you a way that the public could access this image thru the navigation on the site, but they will probably have some lame excuse...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Review of StopGettyImages.com

« on: July 18, 2012, 02:57:15 PM »

As did I, I'll venture to guess that will change when his servers start getting hammered by that friggin bad bot.

I find that it's interesting that the site references "TinEye" and not Picscout.

S.G.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Review of StopGettyImages.com

« on: July 18, 2012, 12:50:02 PM »

Well since you mentioned it Jerry, I'll put out a little teaser...there will be yet another site coming soon, that will be supportive of ELI, complete with lots of link backs. ELI will continue to be at the forefront of "information" and discussion, as this new site will mainly focus on generating content in the way of naming and shaming...within reason naturally, cause I'm a reasonable kinda guy..Hopefully by weeks end there will be a follow up thread to this, and I hope the ELI community will assist in this endeavor.

That's exactly what I was thinking Matt and Robert. Let a thousand sites sail. The more information out there about extortionist practices and trolling the better. I only wish this web developer would participate on here too. Would be nice to get more back-and-forth and link building going.

Good catch on the "pubic" typo. Hope they fix that soon. SG's Hare pic was the funniest, cringe-worthy pic I've seen all week.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Aloha plastic Surgery update

« on: July 18, 2012, 12:16:25 PM »

Try as I might, I can't seem to stay away from Pacer..ran across this nugget this morning. Looks like Aloha has assembled a "Team" of attorneys from the islands. At one point it looked as if an LA firm would be working with him, this apparently has changed, in addition to his original lawyer Robin Melchor, we can also add these to the list:

Arthur F. Roeca
James Shin
Jodie D. Roeca
Norman Koji Odani 

They are all from the firm of : Roeca Luria Hiraoka LLP out of Honolulu, HI

Other than that I saw nothing new in terms of documents..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Review of StopGettyImages.com

« on: July 18, 2012, 08:42:48 AM »

Just a few things to add here, that have not been addressed.

I can say with certainty that Peeved was very close in her vet assumption. I can't say the owner is a vet , but I can say that the owner develops web-sites for vets.

I have a list of names, domain and emails, but will not post them publicly..

I suspect the creator of this site is not concerned with the use of the images, as they would probably be covered by fair use, by having the pubic service statement, and it is clear this is not a commercial site, bundle that with the fact the domain is registered in Switzerland, would make it difficult at best for getty to pursue him/her. As you recall the domain righthaven.com was auctioned off and now live in the same country simply because of their laws regarding copyright..

All in all I think a good amount of the info was gleaned from ELI in one way shape or form, but it is nice to see another site pop up dealing with Getty.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Anybody can sue anybody for any reason...abuse of the law is still rampant!

« on: July 18, 2012, 06:57:19 AM »

I think Matthew is trying to provoke me somehow..being I'm a blind follower and listen and do everything he suggests as cult leader, I'll get right on this!

It sounds like Oscar assigned a job to the ELI Community! (Shaming the lawyer that is... LOL!) Isn't that what we do best?

Any lawyer who would take a case like this needs to be publicly shamed - it's ridiculous.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Anybody can sue anybody for any reason...abuse of the law is still rampant!

« on: July 16, 2012, 08:56:11 PM »

Damn I just cringed at that!!   

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: anybody actually paying Getty or Masterfile now that they've failed in court?

« on: July 16, 2012, 04:55:25 PM »

I have in my hand a fresh getty letter...demanding 780.00 for one image, so yes they have dropped their "rates" somewhat..they won't be getting paid tho..

It will be interesting to see once the word starts getting out if there is a drop in payments, however I don't think we know what percentage were paying before the ruling.  As far as it goes for me, I have always felt that this is wrong and unjust and never had any intentions of paying an over inflated bill from Getty especially without proof of claim.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: anybody actually paying Getty or Masterfile now that they've failed in court?

« on: July 16, 2012, 04:33:58 PM »

ummm yeah, I'll get right on that!...