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ajgeek

2011-12-30 09:13:02 AM

Well... bye.

Generation_D

2011-12-30 09:14:59 AM

Ironic this is being reported in CNet, they being no stranger to internet rage themselves lately. Bundle me some crapware CNet, thats what I expected when I download open source.

GoDaddy the victim of vigilante justice rolling over and begging forgiveness is kind of amusing given Bob (yes I know he isn't CEO any more) Parsons' long history of picking fights and bullying those he sees as less real men than he.

So much schadenfreude, enough for everyone to have seconds!

DECMATH

2011-12-30 09:18:52 AM

"Hi, internet community. You have the power. Please make it stop."
or
"If we had known how influential you were, we wouldn't have promoted a law censoring your domains while exempting our own."

iron_city_ap

2011-12-30 09:30:47 AM

Just because they officially no longer support it, doesn't mean they actually no longer support it. Run them into the ground as a warning to others

The Spoony Bard

2011-12-30 09:35:22 AM

All my domains are no longer belong to them.

Nogrhi

2011-12-30 09:40:38 AM

The Spoony Bard: All my domains are no longer belong to them.

Yep. Same here. Someone dropped me the transfer.

JerseyTim

2011-12-30 09:42:17 AM

Here's a full list of SOPA supporters and where the money is going.

Specific Organizations Supporting H.R.3261

AFL-CIO
Motion Picture Association of America
Independent Film & Television Alliance
National Association of Theatre Owners
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.,
National Music Publishers' Association
American Federation of Musicians
Directors Guild of America
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Screen Actors Guild
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Recording Industry Association of America
Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
Comcast
NBC Universal
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
National Association of Manufacturers
Concerned Women for America
Viacom
National Criminal Justice Association
National District Attorneys Association
Council of State Governments
International Trademark Association
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Association of Fire Fighters
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Americans for Tax Reform
Let Freedom Ring
National Football League
Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson
Outdoor Industry Association
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Association of American Publishers
Ford Motor Company
Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
News Corporation
Society of Plastics Industry
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Software & Information Industry Association
Entertainment Software Association
American Association of Independent Music
Eli Lilly and Company
Merck
Specialty Equipment Market Association
Xerox Corporation
Universal Music Group Inc.
Walmart
Dow Chemical
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Warner Music Group
Major League Baseball
National Confectioners Association
Estee Lauder Companies
Sony Pictures Entertainment
CBS Corporation
National Basketball Association
Greeting Card Association
Advanced Medical Technology Association
Beam Global Spirits &Wine
Sony Music Entertainment
Adidas America
Acushnet Company
ABRO Industries, Inc.
1-800-PetMeds
1-800 Contacts, Inc.
Blue Sky Studios, Inc.
Bose Corporation
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
Burberry
Electronic Components Industry Association
HarperCollins Publishers
Kekepana International Services
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
Nike, Inc.
Nintendo
Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
Timberland Company
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner
Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association
3M Company
National Retail Federation
Retail Industry Leaders Association
Viacom
Philip Morris International
National Association of Broadcasters
Disney

We've got a lot of boycotting do to.

shpritz

2011-12-30 09:43:11 AM

Too little, too late.

MoparPower

2011-12-30 09:50:47 AM

Philip Morris International?
Well, I was thinking about quitting.

Dr Dreidel

2011-12-30 09:52:16 AM

JerseyTim: Here's a full list of SOPA supporters and where the money is going.

Specific Organizations Supporting H.R.3261

[snip]
Comcast/NBC Universal

Now I'm doubly glad we dumped them for Verizon internet-only. Except that now I'll have to pay to watch sports online, at a bar, or find a friend. Or buy a subscription package (but I notice MLB is on the list. I haz a sad, Bud Selig).

National Confectioners Association

Wait, what?

AnotherOldFart

2011-12-30 09:53:11 AM

Another reason I don't like him.
i.imgur.com

qorkfiend

2011-12-30 10:08:56 AM

JerseyTim: Here's a full list of SOPA supporters and where the money is going.

Specific Organizations Supporting H.R.3261...

You said "Viacom" twice!

Dr Dreidel: Or buy a subscription package (but I notice MLB is on the list. I haz a sad, Bud Selig).

Looks like all the professional sports leagues are on board. That doesn't surprise me too much, they've always kept a tight rein on their production permissions.

Katolu

2011-12-30 10:14:49 AM

Generation_D: Ironic this is being reported in CNet, they being no stranger to internet rage themselves lately. Bundle me some crapware CNet, thats what I expected when I download open source.

GoDaddy the victim of vigilante justice rolling over and begging forgiveness is kind of amusing given Bob (yes I know he isn't CEO any more) Parsons' long history of picking fights and bullying those he sees as less real men than he.

So much schadenfreude, enough for everyone to have seconds!

Hardly "vigilante justice". This is the market responding to decisions made by the company. Isn't that what free market capitalism is all about?

gilgigamesh

2011-12-30 10:15:52 AM

AnotherOldFart: Another reason I don't like him.
[i.imgur.com image 640x290]

WTF?? That's legal?

Psylence

2011-12-30 10:17:19 AM

Run them down to the ground, make the guilty pay.

Farkn Yaj Yenrac

2011-12-30 10:21:32 AM

I've always wondered what proportion of their "Piracy costs X amount of dollars" figures are due to the legal and lobbying fees they pay to fight a losing battle. Here's a tip: They will figure a way around whatever obstacles you put up and in the end the only people adversely affected will be those who are willing to legitimately pay for your material, who will then be less likely to buy your products in the future. Too many of these companies don't understand how to deal with the changing economics of the world due to internet distribution of digital products. A digital copy is incredibly cheap to reproduce and distribute compared to a physical copy of the same material, the prices should reflect that. If we would see more of that (instead of the same or even greater prices) it would have a much greater impact on piracy than trying to legislate pirates out of existence.

Dr Dreidel

2011-12-30 10:21:49 AM

qorkfiend: Dr Dreidel: Or buy a subscription package (but I notice MLB is on the list. I haz a sad, Bud Selig).

Looks like all the professional sports leagues are on board. That doesn't surprise me too much, they've always kept a tight rein on their production permissions.

Not surprising (though I may start becoming more of an NCAA fan). I'm just sad I can't consume the sports I love without going further out of my way (paying for TV, going to a bar, finding a friend) because the government's being shiatty.

// "finding a friend" willing/available to watch a game, not "obtaining even one person who can stand me IRL"
// NFL.com is apparently going to stream all of the playoffs this year, so that's something
// do any of the major sports have content on Netflix?

tamsnod27

2011-12-30 10:24:06 AM

gilgigamesh: AnotherOldFart: Another reason I don't like him.
[i.imgur.com image 640x290]

WTF?? That's legal?

Meh, Africa has elephants like we have squirrels here
/I am kidding

Sock Ruh Tease

2011-12-30 10:25:36 AM

Dr Dreidel: National Confectioners Association

Wait, what?

You wouldn't download a candy bar!

enry

2011-12-30 10:33:39 AM

tamsnod27: gilgigamesh: AnotherOldFart: Another reason I don't like him.
[i.imgur.com image 640x290]

WTF?? That's legal?

Meh, Africa has elephants like we have squirrels here
/I am kidding

I read on Wikipedia the number of African Elephants has doubled.....

/wikiality

LouDobbsAwaaaay

2011-12-30 10:36:28 AM

iron_city_ap: Just because they officially no longer support it, doesn't mean they actually no longer support it. Run them into the ground as a warning to others

THIS. Salt the ground so nothing grows there for a thousand years. No remorse.

Vodka Zombie

2011-12-30 10:44:08 AM

Maybe if they changed their name to GoStratagy?

I'm just spitballin' here, people. Bear with me.

HeartBurnKid

2011-12-30 11:21:36 AM

Sorry, I'll stick with Namecheap. They didn't have to get hit in the wallet to do the right thing.

HeartBurnKid

2011-12-30 11:23:47 AM

JerseyTim: Nintendo

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me. Big N's always been paranoid about piracy.

It does mean the 3DS is off my "to-buy (as soon as they make a Rev. 2 with the second circle-pad)" list, though.

SecretAgentWoman

2011-12-30 11:51:26 AM

Thanks for the link, subby, I just transferred my domain to namecheap.com with the coupon code of SOPASUCKS - $6.99 and they donated $2 of that to an organization fighting this legislation. That's awesomesauce.

AcneVulgaris

2011-12-30 12:30:42 PM

iron_city_ap: Just because they officially no longer support it, doesn't mean they actually no longer support it. Run them into the ground as a warning to others

They lied about it the first time, so I expect they're lying about it again.

Burn them down, internets.

OtherLittleGuy

2011-12-30 12:54:37 PM

DECMATH: "Hi, internet community. You have the power. Please make it stop."
or
"If we had known how influential you were, we wouldn't have promoted a law censoring your domains while exempting our own."

Okay, internet community, you've moved to the next level.

Turn North Korea democratic.

/gets popcorn, chaise lounge

OtherLittleGuy

2011-12-30 12:56:42 PM

qorkfiend: JerseyTim: Here's a full list of SOPA supporters and where the money is going.

Specific Organizations Supporting H.R.3261...

You said "Viacom" twice!

He likes Viacom.

/but it's not "Viacom Viacom"

OtherLittleGuy

2011-12-30 01:02:24 PM

LouDobbsAwaaaay: iron_city_ap: Just because they officially no longer support it, doesn't mean they actually no longer support it. Run them into the ground as a warning to others

THIS. Salt the ground so nothing grows there for a thousand years. No remorse.

Seconded:

images.wikia.com

/hot

MusicMakeMyHeadPound

2011-12-30 01:15:24 PM

JerseyTim
Concerned Women for America

That's bizarre.

How does this fit into their agenda, other than being as douchey as possible?

Loki-L

2011-12-30 01:22:27 PM

MusicMakeMyHeadPound: JerseyTim
Concerned Women for America

That's bizarre.

How does this fit into their agenda, other than being as douchey as possible?

You weren't supposed to know yet, but the long term plan is that once you have the mechanism in place to censor stuff for copyright infringements, you start censoring other stuff you don't want people to read like, gay sex, evolution, foreign press, and all version of the bible other than the KJV.

\ enjoy your free speech while it lasted, soon the only free speech left will be in dollar amounts and by corporations

Sarsin

2011-12-30 01:22:48 PM

Farkn Yaj Yenrac: I've always wondered what proportion of their "Piracy costs X amount of dollars" figures are due to the legal and lobbying fees they pay to fight a losing battle. Here's a tip: They will figure a way around whatever obstacles you put up and in the end the only people adversely affected will be those who are willing to legitimately pay for your material, who will then be less likely to buy your products in the future. Too many of these companies don't understand how to deal with the changing economics of the world due to internet distribution of digital products. A digital copy is incredibly cheap to reproduce and distribute compared to a physical copy of the same material, the prices should reflect that. If we would see more of that (instead of the same or even greater prices) it would have a much greater impact on piracy than trying to legislate pirates out of existence.

For me, it is a combination of the digital prices out of wack with physical product, on top of stupid DRM requirements.

/CSB time

My daughter loves the new My Little Pony. I was going to buy it for her for Christmas, but Hasbro only has it released digital. No problem, the future is here let's go. They are ONLY selling it on iTunes which means my XBox won't be able to get it to the TV. I would need an Apple TV or a media PC to get it there. At that point I said "screw it" and got her something else. We will record them with the DVR and keep it. Moral of the story: Hasbro lost $50 via pain in the ass DRM. If I was less honest (and believe me I was tempted) I would just grab them all off of Bittorrent and tell Hasbro to go to hell.

Thelyphthoric

2011-12-30 01:44:04 PM

JerseyTim: Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

I know nothing of them, but it seems like small business would be right in the firing line of this legislation as the big boys move to squash ~~competition~~ piracy.

BumpInTheNight

2011-12-30 01:58:01 PM

It sounds like they need a new and impressive marketing stratagy stat, if only there was a marketing stratagy company that's universally known and coincidentally looking for work.

/how could that moron not spell that word right? I mean come on. We're being setup, we have to be, no one is that stupid.

rekoil

2011-12-30 02:02:28 PM

MusicMakeMyHeadPound: JerseyTim
Concerned Women for America

That's bizarre.

How does this fit into their agenda, other than being as douchey as possible?

Often support for certain legislation is done quid pro quo. Congresscritter pushes through Bill
A that lobbyist cares about in exchange for lobbyist supporting Bill B that Congresscritter is trying to push through.

leakybucket

2011-12-30 02:13:02 PM

I used GoDaddy once, long ago, and couldn't stand them because every click of administering the domain was spent dodging "upsell" requests from them. I'm now using gandi.net, which I stumbled on when I did a whois on eff.org and gnu.org.

erupt2001

2011-12-30 02:49:45 PM

It's ironic because people should be boycotting them due to their terrible products and services, their checkout process resembling an obstacle course and their constant badgering to buy more terrible and useless products and services.

BumpInTheNight

2011-12-30 02:52:08 PM

I knew a long time ago based on their advertised tactics alone that they'd very likely be a shiatty company to deal with, I'm glad to see the internet is collectively telling them to gtfo, we need more of this happening more often to truely shiatty companies like bank of america and their kind.

sexy-fetus

2011-12-30 03:35:06 PM

Who would want to support a company that blows all their money on strippers and cars anyways?

MrEricSir

2011-12-30 04:33:49 PM

There was a time when GoDaddy was one of the cheapest places to get a domain. That was a long time ago.

Goodfella

2011-12-30 04:47:23 PM

JerseyTim: Here's a full list of SOPA supporters and where the money is going.

Specific Organizations Supporting H.R.3261

AFL-CIO
Motion Picture Association of America
Independent Film & Television Alliance
National Association of Theatre Owners
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.,
National Music Publishers' Association
American Federation of Musicians
Directors Guild of America
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Screen Actors Guild
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Recording Industry Association of America
Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
Comcast
NBC Universal
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
National Association of Manufacturers
Concerned Women for America
Viacom
National Criminal Justice Association
National District Attorneys Association
Council of State Governments
International Trademark Association
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Association of Fire Fighters
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Americans for Tax Reform
Let Freedom Ring
National Football League
Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson
Outdoor Industry Association
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Association of American Publishers
Ford Motor Company
Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
News Corporation
Society of Plastics Industry
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Software & Information Industry Association
Entertainment Software Association
American Association of Independent Music
Eli Lilly and Company
Merck
Specialty Equipment Market Association
Xerox Corporation
Universal Music Group Inc.
Walmart
Dow Chemical
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Warner Music Group
Major League Baseball
National Confectioners Association
Estee Lauder Companies
Sony Pictures Entertainment
CBS Corporation
National Basketball Association
Greeting Card Association
Advanced Medical Technology Association
Beam Global Spirits &Wine
Sony Music Entertainment
Adidas America
Acu ...

Very intersting names in there. I expected to see all the media companies. But all these unions as well? AFL-CIO, IBEW, Teamsters, etc. WTF?

Also, Burberry? That was a wierd one.

Mr_H

2011-12-30 04:49:39 PM

Yeah, too late GoDaddy. I'm still moving my domain name (over to dreamhost with the rest of my domains).

Phil Moskowitz

2011-12-30 05:13:09 PM

Corporations are like an abusive husband, they want control over anything. They'll beat the wife until she just goes away. That's what is going to happen. They'll be able to turn the net into NetTV but people will farking walk away. Just like everything else that turns to shiat because of corporate shiattery.

They might inadvertently solve the obesity problem by chasing everyone back into outdoor sports.

Ace's Pretty Pirate Kitty

2011-12-30 08:21:45 PM

Hi all!

I'm not terribly tech-savvy, but this crap makes my teeth grind, so help a farkette out here, okay?

I registered a domain name with Go-Daddy a couple of years back in design school (just to hang onto my preferred business name) and I renew it every year. I don't actually host anything with them, but my renewal comes up in a couple of months, and I want to jump ship.

Can someone explain (short sentences, small words, etc., plz) how to renew someplace else without losing my domain name?

Thanks in advance!

Mr_H

2011-12-30 09:51:34 PM

Ace's Pretty Pirate Kitty: Hi all!

I'm not terribly tech-savvy, but this crap makes my teeth grind, so help a farkette out here, okay?

I registered a domain name with Go-Daddy a couple of years back in design school (just to hang onto my preferred business name) and I renew it every year. I don't actually host anything with them, but my renewal comes up in a couple of months, and I want to jump ship.

Can someone explain (short sentences, small words, etc., plz) how to renew someplace else without losing my domain name?

Thanks in advance!

I'm doing this myself right now. If you're transfering to Dreamhost, this guide (new window) seems to work (I'm half way through it, just waiting for confirmation emails which seem to take a while).

In a previous thread about this, someone posted another guide (new window). I haven't tried it since I found a dreamhost specific one.

MrEricSir

2011-12-30 11:52:04 PM

Ace's Pretty Pirate Kitty: Can someone explain (short sentences, small words, etc., plz) how to renew someplace else without losing my domain name?

As long as you transfer the domain to another service, you don't risk losing the domain. You're always required to sign up for at least one year's registration when you do a transfer, which will be appended to your current expiration date.

There's really not much to worry about, I only encountered a couple "gotchas":

1. GoDaddy requires a "secret code" to move he domain. At some point your new registrar will ask for this during the transfer process. You have to log in to GoDaddy, select the domain in the control panel, and under "Authorization Code" click "send by email." They'll then e-mail this code to you, which you can copy/paste.

2.After the transfer request goes through, GoDaddy sends you a really confusing e-mail. Once you have that e-mail, go to the GoDaddy domain control panel. On the tab on the top left, hover over it until the menu appears. Click "Pending Transfers." Check the box next to the domain, click the "Accept/Decline" button, and then click Accept and go through the next couple dialog boxes.

Other than that it's not a big deal. Best part is, pretty much every other domain registrar on the planet has better support, a lower price, and fewer upsell options than GoDaddy. No matter who else you go with, it's a step up.

kettir

2012-01-01 09:18:27 AM

Godaddy already ticked me off by assuming that every domain holder or website owner is a male or a lesbian. then they hired Danica Patrick and turned her into a stripper/whore in their advertising. a great role model for little girls, yeah, show those kids that whatever they do they are really just T&A to the world. being neither a lesbian nor a horny guy, I'll take my domain and site elsewhere.

Phil Moskowitz

2012-01-02 01:00:19 AM

Someone needs to mock up a DontDaddy web ad with a cowering little girl. That'd play well.

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