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Because a court interpreted the law and ordered them to. And protecting companies from unlawful piracy is just as much a moral good as protecting the consumer from ransomware and threat actors. And if the DNS company can do the one, they can do the other.
> protecting companies from unlawful piracy

Counterpoint: piracy is moral.

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Enabling the transfer of information from companies to people through piracy is a moral good

I’ll always support those who are willing to take such risks where I am not.

It is not obvious that any specific unauthorized act of copying is "piracy," there is always a fair use argument and at the end of the day it is up to the courts to determine whether or not fair use applies.

Pretty inconvenient with the Internet being a thing.

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protecting companies from unlawful piracy is just as much a moral good

bruh