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Wednesday, June 5, 2007 - 2:38AM CDT

DAY 13: Charleston to Lincoln

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.

Currently at the hotel on the west side of Lincoln, Nebraska after an 18-hour driving marathon. We left Charleston at 9AM Tuesday morning. The drive was routine, clear and sunny except for a few small storms in the Lexington-Louisville area. I'm too tired to post a lot of photos from the first leg of the trip, but here are a couple (more to come eventually). A very conditional forecast is on tap for Wednesday - the cap could keep the skies clear, or we could be watching a monster supercell. Parameters look good for tornadoes if a storm or two can break the cap.