Thank You

[bulldog1028]

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone - I, too, have received Getty's letter and have been studying in here for a while, as I have now written a third letter to Getty.  All three have been inspired by you all.

Without you guys and gals, I probably would have cowered and paid their amount as I was visibly shaking when I read their demand.

So, thank you, and here's to fighting the good fight!

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

Way to go Bulldog!  I am always glad to hear when letter victims fight back.  Would you mind sharing some of the detail with us?  Please keep us posted either way.

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone - I, too, have received Getty's letter and have been studying in here for a while, as I have now written a third letter to Getty.  All three have been inspired by you all.

Without you guys and gals, I probably would have cowered and paid their amount as I was visibly shaking when I read their demand.

So, thank you, and here's to fighting the good fight!

[bulldog1028]

Hi Greg,

You were actually one of the biggest inspirations for me.  That and I have a lot of grit, so of course, I would fight.

On an old website that has since been taken down since my rebrand, I would write a series of blog articles on wedding-related items - mainly directed towards the groom.  For each article, I would attach a photo from a Google Image search, never thinking twice about it, that would relate to the topic of the article.  The photo I found was posted multiple times, on multiple websites of varying topics, and was in different image "crops" if you will.  The image would maybe be 300 pixels wide, and the posts were never to drive profit for me as I am a wedding DJ and I was writing about groomsmen gifts, in this case.

So I got the letter and was told to pay $1,065.  Of course, I had no idea how that number was calculated.  So I wrote two letters, got the standard response back, was sent to NCS, just wrote them a letter and finished my third reply to Bieker right now.

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

Bulldog1028,

Thank you for the kind words and I am glad my actions and campaign gave you some inspiration.  I see you have the same Getty Pen-Pal as I did, our Mr. Bieker.  If you plan on responding this is the last letter I sent to him just before I start my complaint letter campaign.  It stopped NCS before they could get involved as well as stopped McCormack from sending me anything (I don’t think it was even sent to him).  If you want to do something like this, do not copy this letter just use it as a guide, Getty knows my work and will call you out on it.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/103914504/1-8-Letter-to-Getty-07-03-12-Redacted

Hi Greg,

You were actually one of the biggest inspirations for me.  That and I have a lot of grit, so of course, I would fight.

On an old website that has since been taken down since my rebrand, I would write a series of blog articles on wedding-related items - mainly directed towards the groom.  For each article, I would attach a photo from a Google Image search, never thinking twice about it, that would relate to the topic of the article.  The photo I found was posted multiple times, on multiple websites of varying topics, and was in different image "crops" if you will.  The image would maybe be 300 pixels wide, and the posts were never to drive profit for me as I am a wedding DJ and I was writing about groomsmen gifts, in this case.

So I got the letter and was told to pay $1,065.  Of course, I had no idea how that number was calculated.  So I wrote two letters, got the standard response back, was sent to NCS, just wrote them a letter and finished my third reply to Bieker right now.

[Oscar Michelen]

Great to hear!