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Many industries complain that new government regulations are bad for business; now, we're hearing it from the adult film biz. A proposed L.A. city regulation to require porn actors to use condoms has adult film makers threatening to leave Tinseltown -- and to take the lion's share of an $8 billion-a-year industry with them.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit that administers Internet domain names on behalf of the U.S. government, has approved the creation of a .xxx top-level domain (TLD) for adult websites. The controversial move, which was announced at the organization's...