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Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 4:03PM

First colors

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 took the long way back from the office today, on some secondary roads through the Coal River area to Route 119, in southern Kanawha and northeastern Lincoln Counties. Once you get up slightly in elevation and out of the river valleys around Charleston, some of the first fall colors are beginning to appear. A few isolated trees are pretty far along already.