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.
I decided to switch my phone service to Packet 8's "voice over IP" this week, and I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. I hope I don't sound like I'm a salesman for this, but it really is a good deal. For those that don't know, VoIP is simply home telephone service that uses your internet connection rather than the phone company's phone line. You get a little router-like box that plugs into an ethernet port, then you just plug your main home phone line into that. You can't really tell the difference from a quality standpoint. It is much cheaper that the 'land line' service, less than 30 bucks a month for unlimited local and long distance (and that's including all the taxes and fees). But best of all, the service has some cool features - one of which solves a big problem for me: ringing both my home and cell phone at the same time. The service has a web-based control panel that lets you enter a 'simultaneous ring' number, so that when someone calls your VoIP phone, it rings both the home and cell phones!
So, I can finally go back to having a single phone number to give out to everyone. And thanks to the local number portability, I get to keep my old home number for this. All in all, it's a pretty nice deal. I know I said I didn't want to sound like a salesman, but if you want to sign up for this, let me know and I'll send you a referral email link (they will give me a small referral credit on my bill).
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