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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: We are the latest victim of the Getty Image extortion scam
« on: January 10, 2013, 01:14:35 PM »
For starters, let me inform everyone that you can not access your neighbor's files through an unsecured wireless router. People in Cyber Cafes cannot access either. You have to give permission to do so.
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I received a letter from Getty Images saying I was in breach of their copyright for 2 small photos I used on my website and they demanded $2,000 to settle the matter.
The images were not watermarked nor were they tagged with any Getty information so I was shocked to receive the demand and took the images off anyway.
When I looked into this it seems they send out thousands of the letters demanding money on the basis that some poor fools will pay them. Getty has NOT taken anyone to court for breach of copyright in these circumstances which leads me to believe it is a SCAM.
When you google ‘Getty Images Scam’, a lot of other information appears to suggest it is a scam.
What is wrong with people today? How do these parasites sleep at night?
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I received a letter from Getty Images saying I was in breach of their copyright for 2 small photos I used on my website and they demanded $2,000 to settle the matter.
The images were not watermarked nor were they tagged with any Getty information so I was shocked to receive the demand and took the images off anyway.
When I looked into this it seems they send out thousands of the letters demanding money on the basis that some poor fools will pay them. Getty has NOT taken anyone to court for breach of copyright in these circumstances which leads me to believe it is a SCAM.
When you google ‘Getty Images Scam’, a lot of other information appears to suggest it is a scam.
What is wrong with people today? How do these parasites sleep at night?