I think if I were in the field and developed a way to cure all vision ailments I wouldn't release my data until the year 2020, just for the ironic value.

"Even though they compromise only 1% of deaths [...]"

Comprise. The word is 'comprise'.

In German that word is unnecessary; submitter is just trying lose weight, get rich, and live healthier.

But when those losses could have been prevented had the people with authority not ignored those with operational knowledge then it really is unacceptable. If someone gets struck by a micro-meteor out in space or dies because of a serious failure after weeks of operation then yeah, that kind of thing can be considered the price of pioneering; the kind of stuff you just can't practically account for. Dying in an explosion seconds after launch from a fault that was detectable and warned against prior to launch is not.

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).