Saturday, December 2, 2006 - 1:20PM

Last-minute St. Louis trip

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 seeing that Charleston was once again going to miss out on winter weather by a long shot, I made a drastic last-minute decision to cover the winter storm in St. Louis. This was the longest winter weather trip I've made to date, and a fairly successful one at that. The full story along with some video and photos can be found on the report page for this event.