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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 10:40PM

Lightning over downtown Charleston

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.

Another excellent storm chase day with another set of photo goals realized - bringing to a close two of the most productive consecutive days of chasing I've ever had in my home state.

HD EXPEDITION VIDEO: Wednesday 6/4 lightning video

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For today's second round of storms, I started in Teays Valley with a plan to wait on a strong cluster of storms to arrive from the west. While I waited, a weak storm passed over and started pulling more upward discharges off the WVAH tower. I set up and got four hits (I saw six) from the more distant vantage point I'd always been intending to get. The tower is likely well over 20 total strikes in the past 24 hours.

With radar showing the original storm cluster moving in toward Charleston, I went back to Fort Hill to try for another set of shots I'd always been looking for, and was blessed with success.