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Licensing photos through 500px became a rip-off

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I think there's a good chance a text analysis would determine this page is porn devoted to anal sex. I just mean it is a bit much how often it is described, broaden your range of metaphors please.

What metaphors would you prefer folks use for describing the scale and depth of disenfranchisement and disempowerment that corporate copyright lobbies have inflicted upon the artistic community at large? In addition to anal sex, the author also mentions leeches and fraudulent business practices.

I'm not particular, I just think instead of 4 graphic references to anal sex and one reference to the corporate leaches as cock-sucking maybe could drop a couple anal sex references and find something non-sexual to relieve the tedium.

Clearly the author would never be caught doing any of that homosexual stuff!

and uh the metaphors were obviously about non-consensual anal sex so it was just weird to keep on the same theme.

Getting your point across with anything with a slight amount of creativity tends to work better.

I have a few photos on various sites for years. Overall might have earned a few € but nothing actually reached my account as of course these type of sites have payout minimums.

I'm not a professional photographer and have a good income, so don't care too much personally. But the exploitation of the people doing the actual work is just unbelievable. I'm split between putting my photos online for free (CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-NC whereby I assume the 'NC' is anyway 99% of the time ignored), or alternatively to just not share and leave it to the professionals...

Is there even any good photo sharing & licensing site left?

- Flickr sells merch based on your CC0 (or -NC) images. - Zooomr disappeared too quickly to ever achieve any of its aims - 500px apparently also is criminally exploitative now. Mostphotos maybe?

Is there any site left for hobby photographers or professionals to share work on their own terms and/or possibly license them?

Smugmug?

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