Are websites starting to ask pay to download media?

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Hey everyone!

As we all know, there are billions of images on the Internet, if not trillions. Some of these images are free to download, while others charge money to download them.

However, I’ve been noticing recently that a lot of websites are starting to force payment upon downloading non-watermarked images and even regular images, or videos/media, regardless of the quality.

I’ve been wondering if this is the case for everyone, or is it just me who’s been seeing this ‘pay-to-download’ trend?

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Nope, not just you. I suggest purchasing a stock subscription, it’s much easier :slight_smile:

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At the end of the day, these sites need to make money, they need to pay the designers to give you access to the images, it’s as many people just fail to attribute artists correctly & it’s the only fair way. At the end of the day this is bound to happen.

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