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The article rightfully mentions the Sony case, but the article is actually mainly about another company:

> beIN, a Qatari company with offices in France, previously sought to force Quad9 to block resolution for a set of domain names they assert are participating in copyright infringement of its audiovisual rights on sports event broadcasts.

This seems to be the relevant wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIN_Channels_Network

...I'm dumbfounded at the idea of using real-life courts to enforce real-life sporting events' streaming rights by getting rapid injunctions against DNS providers as the means of striking at a multiply-redundant head of a piracy hydra when DNS TTLs are often longer than the actual sporting event being infringed upon.

...it's like going after the independent printshop who printed your local telephone directory book to redact known ne'er-do-wells from the directory because a local weed drug deal took place 5 minutes ago but the next telephone directory print isn't scheduled for another 6 months.

also, doesn't DNSSEC prevent this anyway?

> I'm dumbfounded at the idea of using real-life courts to enforce real-life sporting events' streaming rights by getting rapid injunctions against DNS providers

It could always be worse, like here in Spain, where they got one court order a few years back, and just arbitrarily block half the internet (i.e. all of Cloudflare) whenever the futbol is on...

Ah is that what's happening? I thought Cloudflare hated me. Thanks, I will check that next time it happens.

I have zero awareness of when futbol is on because I hate sports. So I didn't correlate it.

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In the meanwhile AI companies neglect copyright infringement at industrial scale