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ROYALTY FREE RIP OFF
July 20, 2002
One of the sellers on E-bay is offering hard drives loaded with Royalty Free images. His most
recent sale was an 80GB Maxtor firewire Mac/PC external drive in perfect condition with over 60
RF titles for $760.00.
According to regular E-bay users this is not the first time this seller has offered such a
package. Clearly this is illegal and some RF companies have contacted E-bay asking that they
cancel the auction privileges of this person. So far E-bay has done nothing.
Information about the latest auction on July 17th can be found at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1366887563
The titles that were available on this drive were:
Stock Footage:
Eyewire Hip Business
Eyewire Metaform
Eyewire Road Trips
Eyewire Reflections of Light
Eyewire Hypervision
Eyewire Backstage
Eyewire Senses
Eyewire Criminals
Eyewire Edit Effects
Eyewire Texture Effects
Digital Vision Blast
Digital Vision X-Posed
Artbeats Film Clutter
Artbeats Reel Explosions 3
Artbeats Los Angeles Aerials
Artbeats Aerial Special FX
Artbeats Space and Planets
Artbeats Senior Lifestyles
ThinkStock Urban Business
ThinkStock Young Adults
ThinkStock Communications
ThinkStock Health and Beauty
Stock Photography:
Photodisc: Vivid Faces
Photodisc: Wired Business
Photodisc: Contemporary Health
Photodisc: Studio Geometry
Photodisc: Memorable moments
Photodisc: Skan/9 Abstractions
Photodisc 38: The Object series Objects of Nature
Photodisc 50: Going on Holiday
Photodisc Background Series 16: Wow and Flutter
Photodisc The Object Series: Everyday Objects 1
Photodisc The Object Series No.3: Faces and Hands
Photodisc The Object Series No.13: Just Flowers
Photodisc 50: Going on Holiday
Photodisc 9: Holidays and Celebrations
Photodisc Background Series 15: Elements
Photodisc Background Series 18: Metal Works
Photodisc 5: World Commerce and Travel
Photodisc: Backgrounds and Textures Volume 3
Photodisc Signature Series 14: Cultural Arts
Photodisc 81: Digital Revolution
Photodisc: Studio Geometry
Photodisc SS16: Everyday People
Photodisc BS34 Luminosity
Rubberball: faces volume1
Stockbyte CD 42 Busy People 4
Digital Vision: Eye of the Beholder
Digital Vision: Lifestyles
Digital Vision: Velocity
Digital Vision: Naked and Scared
Digital Vision: Fusion: Prototype
Digital Vision: Metropolis
Digital Vision: Circuit Breaker
Digital Vision: Inner Gaze
Digital Vision: Critical Mass
Digital Vision: Fast Forward
Digital Vision: High on Life
Digital Vision: Business Communications
Artville: Cool Stuff
Artville: Business Relations