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RE: FORGET THE LETTERS (was RE: Eat this RIAA)
From: "Nigel Clarke" <nigel () forever-networks com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:27:30 -0700
To be perfectly honest, I could care less about any letters. It might be a good idea to follow in the footsteps of Informationwave and just take action. <CLARKE> -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:20 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: $12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA) 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.
Current thread:
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?, (continued)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Nigel Clarke (Aug 21)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 21)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Avleen Vig (Aug 22)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Rafi Sadowsky (Aug 22)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Rafi Sadowsky (Aug 22)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Scott Gifford (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? J.A. Terranson (Aug 21)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Nigel Clarke (Aug 21)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Marshall Eubanks (Aug 21)
- $12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA) Sean Donelan (Aug 21)
- RE: FORGET THE LETTERS (was RE: Eat this RIAA) Nigel Clarke (Aug 21)
- Re: $12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA) Owen DeLong (Aug 22)
- Re: $12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA) Robert A. Hayden (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Jeff Ogden (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Nigel Clarke (Aug 22)
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Nigel Clarke (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Andy Dills (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Jeff Ogden (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Miles Fidelman (Aug 21)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Dan Hollis (Aug 21)