Author Topic: Just found a massive stock video thief YouTube account with 3,500 clips!!! (Read 4612 times)

blvdone · « **on:** February 19, 2024, 20:15 »

Thief.
https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.

https://tineye.com/search/27bcaf83bded8b58b5c7aa53c1a5c927cb59cfb8?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1

https://tineye.com/search/a693903ad1065af6914270c0ac8812c58d5ca602?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1

https://tineye.com/search/e4c86c567ecdbedd1df3ba662b20ee0ea82b87a6?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1

Envato Elements account thief downloaded from.
https://elements.envato.com/user/LENSLOGIC
https://elements.envato.com/user/vlad_star/stock-video
https://elements.envato.com/user/petrunine
https://elements.envato.com/user/FrameStock

and many others

If your clip was stolen, send YouTube a copyright infringement claim. They'll remove the videos and hopefully eventually close that thief YouTube account.

blvdone · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2024, 20:43 »

Found other thief youtube channels.
https://www.youtube.com/@freestockfootage4kUHD/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@freestockvideohd7394/videos

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2024, 22:50 »

wow, sick.

thanks. insane how these ppl love to steal & resell because they are soooooooooo lazy to do any real work themselves.

3 million views - for 'adsense', if enabled, probably made about $20k from stolen ppls work...

probably not the only one... I'd suggest doing a youtube search for "free" + "stock" + "footage" & variants, and you'll probably find a lot more... this kind of thing tends to be popular in east indian communities (although of course not the only ones that do it) - and usually there are certain "get rich quick" schemes in some forums, which are less than ethical, and sold as "courses"...

blvdone · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2024, 23:47 »

Quote from: SuperPhoto on February 19, 2024, 22:50

wow, sick.

thanks. insane how these ppl love to steal & resell because they are soooooooooo lazy to do any real work themselves.

3 million views - for 'adsense', if enabled, probably made about $20k from stolen ppls work...

probably not the only one... I'd suggest doing a youtube search for "free" + "stock" + "footage" & variants, and you'll probably find a lot more... this kind of thing tends to be popular in east indian communities (although of course not the only ones that do it) - and usually there are certain "get rich quick" schemes in some forums, which are less than ethical, and sold as "courses"...

Yes, I found the 2 more thieves by just searching channels for "free stock footage". They just keep coming.

zastavkin · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2024, 00:59 »

Quote from: blvdone on February 19, 2024, 20:15

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.

This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.

Faustvasea · « **Reply #5 on:** February 20, 2024, 01:29 »

Quote from: zastavkin on February 20, 2024, 00:59

Quote from: blvdone on February 19, 2024, 20:15

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.
This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.

And which one are these?

zastavkin · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2024, 01:42 »

Quote from: Faustvasea on February 20, 2024, 01:29

And which one are these?

First of all, there is an outflow of buyers from sites with high prices. For example, from Pond5.

Faustvasea · « **Reply #7 on:** February 20, 2024, 01:55 »

Quote from: zastavkin on February 20, 2024, 01:42

Quote from: Faustvasea on February 20, 2024, 01:29
And which one are these?
First of all, there is an outflow of buyers from sites with high prices. For example, from Pond5.

I upload my videos on pretty much all stock sites I have. Thinking to upload them only on video hive and P5, and maybe AS

Pacesetter · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2024, 03:55 »

Great work finding all these thieves accounts. (Y)

Stockmaan · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2024, 05:01 »

we should create one money fund and participate for all those who manage to find such thieves. Whoever finds it should be rewarded. then we would find more such thieves!

blvdone · « **Reply #10 on:** February 20, 2024, 10:22 »

Quote from: zastavkin on February 20, 2024, 00:59

Quote from: blvdone on February 19, 2024, 20:15

I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.
This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.

Exactly. I've been saying it from the day 1!!!

blvdone · « **Reply #11 on:** February 20, 2024, 11:42 »

Quote from: Pacesetter on February 20, 2024, 03:55

Great work finding all these thieves accounts. (Y)

Thanks!!

blvdone · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2024, 10:26 »

Update. It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down. Victory!!!

https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos

odesigns · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2024, 10:35 »

Quote from: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 10:26

Update. It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down. Victory!!!

https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos

A few of us Storyblocks contributors brought it to their attention and along with our own take down requests for our individual clips, Storyblocks issued a take down request for the entire channel. I guess that worked.

blvdone · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2024, 12:07 »

Quote from: odesigns on February 22, 2024, 10:35

Quote from: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 10:26
Update. It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down. Victory!!!

https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos

A few of us Storyblocks contributors brought it to their attention and along with our own take down requests for our individual clips, Storyblocks issued a take down request for the entire channel. I guess that worked.

Great!! Did you see your clips there?

blvdone · « **Reply #15 on:** February 22, 2024, 12:23 »

There probably are more thief channels here.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=free+stock+footage&sp=EgIQAg%253D%253D

Found a stolen clip.
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-20560555-macro-eyes-web-surfer-office-worker-insurance
Thief
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1108831819-eye-glass-close-business-man-vision
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/DesignBeez/video

https://tineye.com/search/06688ca4e5394b1f6659a05dce474d7fdedcf17f?sort=crawl_date&order=desc&page=1

Thief youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@freesv/videos

odesigns · « **Reply #16 on:** February 22, 2024, 12:26 »

Quote from: blvdone on February 22, 2024, 12:07

Great!! Did you see your clips there?

One. I did a take down request.

blvdone · « **Reply #17 on:** February 22, 2024, 12:44 »

Found another obvious thief youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@freecreativefootagelibrary5492/videos

If you upload to iStock and other unlimited download sites, check out the videos there.

MotionJunky · « **Reply #18 on:** April 04, 2024, 15:49 »

found another one here with 1.6K videos music loops: https://www.youtube.com/@LoopsHouse

I sent a few takedown notice to youtube and waiting to see what happens.

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