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Anyone else have both sites down and non functioning?

You can also use the microphone button to speak the words instead of typing.

SS smartphone contributor app works fine, easy to describe and keyword and when done if you need to make changes you can do so on the site from your computer.

Nothing to it especially for those with kids that do lots of texting.

Are you within 5 miles of an airport or military airport? If so, flying drones there at any height is illegal, as far as I know. Unless they're testing them at the airport, like they will be at mine. Then it's just hunky dory to have them skimming your rooftop and treetops.

No I am only in a flight path for their training and a direct line to get over the water so they can hit the afterburner and exceed the sound barrier legally.

Besides they are not allowed to fly below 400 feet in civilian airspace but they do quite often.

I think the other person was talking about this shutter talk live workshop about protecting your content...

 http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/learn-how-to-protect-your-content-in-our-shuttertalk-live-workshop

Bingo it is all explained right there.

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Of all the searches above which are very famous they just have so many images on the site that the buyers don't need to go anywhere else chit SS has 48 million images but hardly any of the ones I as a buyer could be looking for to use because no one has shot many of them yet but they are there and they are very popular.

To hell with drones and go pros!

Get a Mad Max one man copter with a real DSLR and go to it!

And as long as you stay under 400 feet all is fine have fun and just don't run outta gas!

I'd agree and it will never end.

I'm just angry because I don't have my own Drone with a HD GoPro on it. I still want to fly like a bird, over cows and cornfields...  But come on, why would I spend a couple grand to do that? At least some people have sensible commercial uses, and that's what's banned?

So what do we get? People with loads of money, buying a toy, and causing these personal invasions of privacy and disruptions. Heck, maybe it should be "only for commercial use", licensed, and then restrict the private use?

Yes, just a thought. You probably know my viewpoint. I'm for freedom of choice and rights being with individuals not bloated or oppressive government regulations.

Quote from: Zeus on February 10, 2015, 10:03

Uncle Pete, you're being stymied in an attempt to make sense of a world regulated by government bots, trying to regulate a renegade populace.

And today there are reports from LA, Chicago, Dallas and others with drones being flown at airports with pilot sightings from 1,800 feet to as high as 8,500 feet!

The laws are boiling in the pots somewhere just waiting for the simmering and distribution.

Good.

Maybe next time they will hang him by his balls that he apparently thought were untouchable!?

https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-photographers

http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

http://digital-photography-school.com/photographers-rights-and-photography-privacy-advice/

http://consumerist.com/2015/02/06/deputy-fired-for-threatening-to-arrest-photographer-who-took-pictures-of-police-in-public/

"As we�ve covered before, courts have ruled time and again that police can�t force citizens to stop taking photographs of them in public so long as you don�t interfere with their work. That doesn�t stop cops from ordering people to put their cameras away, and didn�t prevent on sheriff�s deputy in Washington state from making multiple empty threats of arrest against a Seattle news photographer who took pics of a police action in public. But after an investigation by the sheriff�s office, that deputy has been dismissed for abusing his authority."

And down the story a bit -

In 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in Glik v. Cunniffe that private citizens have the right to record public officials, including police, in a public place.

The court held that the First Amendment�s proscription on laws �abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press� encompasses a range of conduct related to the gathering and dissemination of information.�

And so along comes the microstocker.

Read this as "Staff Photographers" not all photographers. And it's the last six of the staff photographers. AP already did this years ago. (2010) Huge staff cuts, as have many others. The major newspapers that are still left, let the photographers go and asked the reporters to carry cameras.

Advertising revenue for print publications has dropped as marketing moves to the Internet. You should all recognize that for what good the Internet is for new business, it's kicking the heck out of traditional businesses of all kinds. The obvious point, related to this story and this forum, would be, traditional photography markets.

What this eventually means for SI and the rest is, lower standards of content quality. Less original and less professional insightful work.

They will get most of their shots from agencies (like Getty and USA Today) and these same shots will be available to everyone else. SI used to have the top pros, who know their sports and brought back significant and stunning images, whether it be action or artistic interpretations.

It's all about cost cutting. Income drops, expenses need to be cut. Employees have insurance and pensions and get a salary. Freelance or other agencies, get paid for what they supply, nothing more.