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                   Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:10AM

StormCam update

By DAN ROBINSON
Editor/Photographer
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From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and brought down my business.

I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. This page is a detailed account of the biggest threat to my photography and video operation that I had to battle daily to just barely survive, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem facing all of my colleagues as well.

After some driver updates and some new software, I was able to fix the bad 'impressionist painting' look of the webcam image to something more useful. The new software also archives the last ten images from the camera. The point of this camera is to show real-time weather conditions in Charleston, that is, the camera will be aimed at whatever subject will best illustrate what is happening. For example, during snowfall events, the camera will be pointed at the ground to show accumulations; during storms, it will be pointed skyward to show clouds. When cellular access permits, the camera will be used in the car during chases.

LINK: Stormhighway.com StormCam

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