Photos taken without permission

[Karen Politte]

OK so thanks to Mike Mezeul I know about this......

I don't have time to go through this thread with a toothcomb - I have a life - but I am assuming that Mr. Griffin has now gone to ground, so to speak.

Does anybody have a contact email address for him? I would like our photographs removed from his webpage immediately, as, I am sure, everybody else would.

Billy - if you are reading this - I suggest you disband your webpage and/or contact me at kerhoden@stormskies.com to discuss this.

All images Copyright and U.S. patent protected, © 1996 - 2005

Billy Griffin Productions, Natural Images Photography

What poor form.

Karen Rhoden

 

[nickgrillo]

Billy, I am one of the people you ripped off. Lemme tell you right now, I will sue you. This is absolutely proposterous on your part. You actually can have the nerve to argue with the forecasting techniques of the NWS and the SPC and call yourself a chaser, yet you steal photos? Funny as heck...

I hope you get banned off of this site for your doings, and everybody gets to get back what you have stolen from them, which is the pictures that we have worked so hard to get. I guess you just sit at home, critisize others and steal photos...

I will be contacting a lawyer ASAP...

 

[Jeremy Lemanski]

does anyone know where the other photos are from? are any his? i'm trying to find matches to june 9th, march 21st and april 10th on other people's sites.

 

[Kevin Bowman]

You guys are going to have to watermark your photos

 

[mikedeason]

http://www.deasonfamily.net/billythefraud/

Regards,

Mike

 

[mikegeukes]

All about Billy Griffin (What is your real name)

Joined: 24 Apr 2004
Total posts: 137
[0.23% of total / 0.33 posts per day]
Find all posts by Billy Griffin
Location: University of Oklahoma - Norman, OK
Website: http://www.billygriffin.com
Occupation: Training Specialist / Meteorologist / Storm Chaser
Interests: Severe Weather Research, Storm Chasing, Fishing, Camping
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/profile.ph...ewprofile&u=857

Mike

 

[David Wolfson]

This is all just too weird. The "MROB" connection with this is getting positively spooky. Note that "www.redcoat.net" where some -- ah, items irrelevant to the matter of this thread linked in the infamous BG's guestbook -- are located in Nashville as is ...

Someone with some internet knowledge seems to be out of their freaking gourd. Anyone have any ideas who "MROB" might be... :wink:

 

[Darin Brunin]

The link to my report page where the photo is located can be found at

http://shadowoftheanvil.com/32105.htm

 

[Robbie Cox]

Originally posted by Bill Tabor
Also of course his main homepage is www.billygriffin.com. Be sure and drop by and sign Billy's guestbook as many chasers already have - LOL. His email address is billygriffin@direcway.com in case you want to send a personal message. Also someone needs to do a DNS records lookup on billygriffin.com find his webhost and let them know they need to shut down his site.

Also has phome number
405-812-8031

 

[mikegeukes]

I found this doing a domain search: WHOIS

Registrant:
GRIFFIN, BILLY
3900 HEAD RD
ADAMS, TN 37010-9133
US

Domain Name: BILLYGRIFFIN.COM

Administrative Contact:
Darlene, Noennig darlene@gatewayconnections.com
Gateway Business Solutions
219A Dunbar Cave Rd.
CLARKSVILLE, TN 37043
US
931-648-9528 fax: 931-647-7707

Technical Contact:
Gateway Business Solutions eric@gatewayconnections.com
219 A Dunbar Park Dunbar Cave Road
Clarksville, TN 37043
US
931 648 9528 fax: 931 551 9008

Record expires on 12-Dec-2007.
Record created on 12-Dec-2000.
Database last updated on 14-Jun-2005 23:00:14 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.GATEWAYCONNECTIONS.COM 207.65.249.30
NS2.GATEWAYCONNECTIONS.COM 207.65.249.70

Mike

 

[Douglas Mitchell]

I have all of his Wx portion saved to my HD, it's about 4.3 megs and contains all the files and pictures. If you wish to obtain a copy, PM me.

 

[Kevin Bowman]

from his site

June 9, 2005...

Another "bust" in the forecast. Started off with a moderate risk for severe storms, and some forecasters here in Norman were actually bold enough to forecast significant, long-track violent tornadoes. Just didn't turn out that way. We did manage, however, to get on a nice rotating storm near Vici, Oklahoma.


:lol:

 

[David Wolfson]

Phone numbers from http://www.torybarnett.com/musicians.html
Phone: 931-358-5131
Pager: 877-357-3848
Mobile: 931-216-7717

email: chase1@midsouth.net

 

[jaybarnsmith]

For those of you(Specificly Karen who isn't in the chatroom and didn't already hear me mention this) who want have pictures on his page id suggest sending a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice to his webhost. The person I would send the email to is the email addy listed for the Administrative Contact(darlene@gatewayconnections.com) that someone posted from the domain whois above.

You can read about the DMCA at http://www.ncsu.edu/copyright/DMCA.html and some information on proper takedown requests at http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID130. Heres a link to information from Verizon on doing DMCA takedown requests http://www22.verizon.com/copyright/.

 

[Anthony Silver]

It's very unfortunate that Billy found it necessary to steal photos from other members because he's not intelligent/talented enought to get up off his a** and produce his own work. This is one reason why I choose not to post chase photos, because certain individuals can't leave their hands off of other's work. I hope the victims of this incident decide to file charges for infringement, this should not be tolerated IMO. Just goes to show you that some people cant be trusted, and it's very sad to see that certain people have to resort to this type of cowardly act. Billy, If you're monitoring this post, you need to man the f**k up and post some sort of apology/explanation or something!! This is not cool!!!!