123RF have recently increased daily download limit for premium subscription from the previous 20 to 26 downloads per day. Some of you may remember that normally pay for contributors using a complex formula that splits 50% of the subscription revenue per download for a given month. As a result, in some months the pay out will be higher and in other months, lower, but in last few months, the payout has been stable at $0.35.
According to the old formula, if number of downloads increases, the payout rate will decrease. Interesting news from 123RF is that they now protect your earnings (since July 1, 2007) and the download payout rate to contributors is set to $0.36 per download, which is 20% higher than their nearest competitor 
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