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Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:10AM

StormCam update

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. 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. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.

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