I apologise for that; I have a very rye sense of humour.

I know right! And then wheat would we do?

...since 2005.

Nice tabloiding, Slashdot.

First of all, doing business and viewing websites are not the same thing. This is a censorship law masquerading as nationalist economic policy. Secondly, none of those things you say require this law. A country can put tariffs and customs fees on imported goods to protect local economies if that is truly their intention. Having a .com TLD, or any other for that matter, is unrelated to whether a company follows local laws or not.

I'm not American. Nor is the entire Internet besides Belarus. But thanks for the ignorance-induced lecture on US hegemony.

False dichotomy. It is not necessary that we choose between these; there still remains the option of an open Internet, despite what some would have you believe.

OK so from the summary we have:
1) Unsubstantiated figures.
2) Figures that have no way of being correllated to actual loss of sales even if they were verifiable.
3) A conclusion drawn from illogical, perhaps even a (partially) inverted concept of causation: 'DRM is the answer to piracy'.
4) An unjustified focus on a single platform, the PC. Looking on TPB alone I can see half a dozen torrents of Crysis 2 for XBOX360 and another 4 for PS3. I don't know what has to be done to play pirated games on those platforms but I'm sure these guys aren't downloading 5-6GB torrents for the hell of it. Yes, there are about 100 torrents for PC vs. those console ones, but many of them are created solely for the inclusion of additional content (various cracks, mods, trainers, etc).

Alas, I have crackers but nothing to place upon them.
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This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

So it's OK to help terrorists so long as you profit directly from it?

Not that I agree with Darshan-Leitner, just pointing out what seems to be a very strange law, as least as you're interpreting it.

At the time I was a broke teenager and they were the cheapest registrar for .com. Neither of those things has been true for some time now.

Oh, also worth pointing out that if you use the Whois Privacy option (ie. DomainsByProxy) you'll have to disable that from the DomainsByProxy website before starting the transfer process otherwise they will auto-reject the transfer.

Have you tried looking on the export list page again? Don't bother waiting for the email confirming that the list has been generated as it takes hours to receive that, but the list itself was generated fairly quickly for me (under 5 mins).

Why only cancel the auto-renew on one? It's worth pointing out (in case this is your reason) that you won't lose your current registration time by transferring to a new registrar. Usually transferring to the new registrar involves paying for a 1 year renewal but this 1 year will be added on to your existing registration, not replacing it. For instance I had domains with Godaddy that expired in 2012 and 2013, now I've transferred to internet.bs they expire in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Already transferred my domains away today. Reversing their position doesn't really change anything at this point. They supported it and would've continued to if it hadn't been for the backlash.

And even besides that, their advertising schemes have been creepy from the start and Bob Parsons is now and always will be a cunt. SOPA support was just the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26

According to this I make Gandhi look authoritarian.

Of course truth is the questions are far too coarse-grained to provide an accurate picture of someone's political beliefs.

You tell him!. What good are valid opinions unless I have some random username to associate them with? Well said, Mr C Death. Well said.