At first I almost laughed when I saw the sum - they're asking $300? For a company that's been around for almost 15 years? That said, Meetup's reasons for not p

At first I almost laughed when I saw the sum - they're asking $300? For a company that's been around for almost 15 years? That said, Meetup's reasons for not paying it are very solid. I'm glad they're spending far more than $300 of their own resources[0] to fight this attack, because other websites would be the ones paying the price if they decided to start this precedent. Also, somewhat relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld [0] I wonder how much this downtime actually represents to them (plus the engineering time)