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                   Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 5:45PM

Ouch

By DAN ROBINSON
Editor/Photographer
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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.

Today was supposed to be a good storm chase day, with parameters in place for strong and severe storms from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York. At noon, a large area of thick clouds with embedded showers had overspread southwestern PA, while further south, large area of clearing was settled over southern West Virginia. Despite the better upper air dynamics up north in PA, I chose to ditch my earlier Pittsburgh target and head south to Charleston. Cloud cover and rain will kill off instability needed for strong storms, so I felt Pittsburgh would not have much 'juice' left to sustain strong storms. With the clear sky in WV allowing the sun to destabilize the atmosphere, I was more confident of stronger storms there. I arrived in Charleston at 3:30PM to a once-strong line of storms that vanished upon arrival in town. It's a little after 6:00PM now. Here is the current radar for Charleston, WV:

And here is the current radar image for Pittsburgh (downtown is near the center of the rings):

This is what we call a bust.

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