DJ Bob Dobbs has been enchanting listeners with recorded music for several years on Achieve Radio without monetary compensation to the artists.
This will soon change and Bob will pay for all the music that he plays.
A representative of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) has contacted Bill at Achieve Radio about the unauthorized use of the sound recordings over these many years.
Until this matter is resolved, the archives of Payday, Whazzup, the New Coach House and Cash Flow will not be available.
No music will be played on upcoming Payday or Whazzup during the live show so future archives will be immediately available since they do not violate RIAA policy.
Many of the excerpted audios on iON & Bob that do not contain music are still available:
Message from Bill to Bob, 2 July 2020
Message from Traci Crippen, RIAA, to Bill, 2 July 2020.
This will soon change and Bob will pay for all the music that he plays.
A representative of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) has contacted Bill at Achieve Radio about the unauthorized use of the sound recordings over these many years.
Until this matter is resolved, the archives of Payday, Whazzup, the New Coach House and Cash Flow will not be available.
No music will be played on upcoming Payday or Whazzup during the live show so future archives will be immediately available since they do not violate RIAA policy.
Many of the excerpted audios on iON & Bob that do not contain music are still available:
Bob’s Private Sessions with iON
Bob’s Private Sessions with the Evergreens
Acension
The Keys & the Aethyrs
The Tech Body
iON LIVE! on Payday 2014-2017
Derrick de Kerckhove Discusses Quantum States with iON
Bob Dobbs & Derrick de Kerckhove Discuss the Schools of Media Ecology
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Explained
ReWrite
Melting Titanium
Message from Bill to Bob, 2 July 2020
I told you several years ago that this would happen eventually. I may have no choice but to remove these files. It's possible that the music could be edited out, but given the thousands of hours of recordings, this would be a very long and expensive operation. This also applies to Ginney's Radio iON channel.
Message from Traci Crippen, RIAA, to Bill, 2 July 2020.
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately eighty-five (85) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies on matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet, and including with respect to the copyrighted works identified below.
We have learned that your service is operating and/or hosting the below-referenced infringing web site(s) on its network. These site(s) are offering files containing sound recordings which are owned by one or more of our member companies and have not been authorized for this kind of use, including without limitation those referenced at the URL(s) below. We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. We assert that the information in this notification is accurate, based upon the data available to us.
We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove the files from your system, including any mirrored or duplicate copies of those files, and/or that you disable all access to the infringing files and associated links, and that you inform the uploader/s and/or site operator(s), as applicable, of the illegality of his or her conduct.
We also ask that you consider the widespread and repeated infringing nature of the uploader(s) and/or site operator(s)' conduct (as applicable), and whether that conduct violates your terms of service and/or your company's repeat infringer policy.
This e-mail does not constitute a waiver of any right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are expressly retained. In addition, our use of your service's required notice form, if applicable, is merely meant to facilitate removal of the infringing material listed below and is not meant to suggest or imply that your activities and services are within the scope of the DMCA safe harbor.
You may contact me at RIAA, 1000 F Street NW, 2nd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004, Tel. (202) 775-0101, or by e-mail at antipiracy@riaa.com, to discuss this notice. We await your response.
Sincerely,
Traci Crippen
Online Content Protection
RIAA
