Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 12:26PM

2007 Event Blog

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.

I'm up late tonight watching the radar screen for convection that has a so-so chance of firing here in the next couple of hours. In the meantime, at this late hour I've been working on the format for posting photo/video updates for our upcoming storm chase expedition.

I usually start a dedicated blog every year that we use to post about our chases during our spring trips. Now that I have this blog, I didn't want to have two blogs to worry about updating while we're on the road. So, I've decided to just make this main blog serve both purposes. The plan is to put this blog into a spring 'storm chase expedition mode', with some different graphics that separate the chase posts from my normal posts. That way I can direct all of the traffic to one place, which will be less confusing for both me and my readers (if I have any!). I'll also create a chronological storm chase expedition blog page, which (thanks to the beauty of server-side includes) will allow the same posts to appear both places without me having to type things twice.

In other web site news, the changeover to Storm Highway is getting closer. I have just a few new features left to complete, and after that, some final tweaking and testing. The new 'The Message' outreach site and video content will begin production in April (possibly even next week), and the first videos should appear by May 1 if all goes as planned.