[51275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Hayden)
Thu Aug 22 12:53:27 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:52:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@geek.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.sj.ca.us>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3D6514B9.D2CBD67@delong.sj.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Doesn't the RIAA's ISP(s) have an AUP that would put a stop to their
behaviour?
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> While I agree with Sean that NANOG is not the place to lobby, I would
> also
> state that the coordination of a BGP blockade against RIAA's harmful
> policies is an internet traffic management issue requiring coordination
> among providers to solve.
>
> Owen
>
> Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
