these things work (and I may be incorrect), when people pay to go to a conference, they are paying for access to the materials that are presented there. This includes not only the live sessions, but also the papers from those sessions (either digitally or hard copy). Is this something that maybe varies by discipline?
I'm curious, what is the rationale behind the decision to not make papers available to the attendees of the conferences in which they were presented?
Are you perhaps volunteering to do the grunt work that would make it possible for AoIR to track non-members and keep track of which conferences they attended (or didn't), and allow/disallow access to the papers repository based on that information? :) This is a whole lot more work than it sounds like. And it sounds like a lot to start with. --elijah