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Adam Lucio said:
What I find even more interesting [besides the fact their logo is an obvious ripoff of TWC] is the vehicle pictured at the bottom. WTF is that thing?! The tiv-3...dominator v2.0 or posermobile101?
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Looks like to me they just took some kind of customized vehicle and photoshoped 'the tornado channel' and 'ef-6' onto it. It doesn't look like any kind of tornado intercept vehicle IMO - to easy for the wind to 'get under' that vehicle - which is never a good thing. Instead it looks like some kind of custom off-road vehicle or maybe even something from the military...but obviously the author wanted to give the impression it was supposed to be for storm chasing...lol
 
LOL...having to deal with issues of copyright/trademark with TWC...that logo IS too close (to my unqualified...non-lawyer opinion). Ut oh!

I'm sure the name 'The Tornado Channel' is fine though.

Lists age as 25
List occupation as media producer. I guess if that were true, he/she would know better.

All it takes is a few folks to complain about the violation of video before YouTube will take down the entire account. Just start spreading the word so those that have been 'violated' will do what is necessary.

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It is very possible this person is just clueless to the whole thing about stealing video. I keep seeing more and more people who point it out, and (especially the young ones) think it is totally legal because it's on the web. (wait...we've said this before right?LOL)
 
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Adam Lucio said:
What I find even more interesting [besides the fact their logo is an obvious ripoff of TWC] is the vehicle pictured at the bottom. WTF is that thing?! The tiv-3...dominator v2.0 or posermobile101?
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Actually, when my brother saw that thing, he said it's one of the heavy armored military Hum-vees they use in Iraq. He has pics of one when he was stationed there with himself in it.
 
Jim Saueressig said:
You might look for your stuff in this collection. http://www.youtube.com/user/weatherman729
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Looks like almost all the tornado video is ripped off of Martin Lisius' StormStock. I see Martin's Hoover, TX; Spencer, SD; Scott McPartlands Attica, KS; Bill Reid's Last Chance, CO tornado; the Pampa Sheriff video, and I'm not sure who shot the Red Rock video, but that is from StormStock as well.
 
Scott Weberpal said:
Looks like almost all the tornado video is ripped off of Martin Lisius' StormStock. I see Martin's Hoover, TX; Spencer, SD; Scott McPartlands Attica, KS; Bill Reid's Last Chance, CO tornado; the Pampa Sheriff video, and I'm not sure who shot the Red Rock video, but that is from StormStock as well.
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Scott,
I sent an email to Bill right after Jim posted his link and Bill confirmed what you said about his and Martin's footage. He said that particular footage had been on youtube for quite a while and that he wasn't overly concerned with the poor quality footage that was being shown there. If anything else showed up, he wanted to know about that.

I know some folks have made the statement that "you need to protect everything", but this is Bill's thinking for now. I'm fortunate in that I haven't posted any footage, so it's not a worry for me.
 
This guy on Youtube stole my Quinter video, removed my copyright info and added a logo, "Futuremet Productions." I looked at his channel and saw some other chasers' video (tornado and hurricane) that I am sure were not used with permission.

http://www.youtube.com/user/juderson2


I have sent him and Youtube notice to remeove my video. Thanks to Scott McPartland for bringing the site to my attention.

Bill Hark
 
At the bottom of the page it says copyright mhweather. I did a google search and the only chaser that came up was Mark Humpage. Could this be the person your looking for?
 
I doubt it's Mark Humpage... I looked up "futuremet" and came across a few blogs entries at Wunderground.com (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/futuremet/archive.html?year=2009&month=01), which have videos that link to this guy's account:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FutureMeteorologist

Which have videos that carry the "Futuremet Productions" tagline. The guy's (kid's?) name on the account is none other than... Juderson (the account with the stolen videos is "juderson2").

So... I think it's this Haitian kid (he says so in his blog), and not Mark. Could be wrong, but I doubt it ;)
 
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