[51243] in North American Network Operators' Group
$12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Aug 21 23:22:34 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:19:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <HGEEKCPKMCLEIOHFGKCNKEPPCBAA.nigel@forever-networks.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Nigel Clarke wrote:
> However, this type of action might not be necessary at all.
>
> Some of the users on this list think RIAA's recent actions are nothing more
> than empty threats.
> Why doesn't NANOG make a few of its own?
>
> A "polite" letter from a NANOG representative should do the trick.
The RIAA's annual budget is roughly $18 million. That pays for lawyers
and other stuff which goes into writing "polite" letters. To raise that
much money Merit would need to charge about $12,000 per person per NANOG
meeting. People complain the current $300 registration fee is too much.
NANOG is not a lobbying organization. There are other several
organizations (and mailing lists) you may want to consider instead, such
as the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ You can also
write your elected representatives for the price of a postage stamp. Some
congress critters even accept e-mail now.
