Right there in the article:

"This decision follows a similar case against Internet backbone firm Cloudflare. In January, the Court of Milan found that Cloudflare's CDN, DNS server, and WARP VPN were facilitating piracy. The court threatened Cloudflare with fines of up to 10,000 euros per day if it did not begin blocking the sites."

That’s hilarious to me suggesting that DNS can facilitate privacy.

What about the people who own the copper that’s transporting the piracy? That actually seems like it’s more of a direct link than DNS.

Shh, don't give them ideas!

Disintermediation is the name of the game, and they won't stop because there's money to be made.

I was specifically referring to requesting DNS poisoning.

A Spanish judge ordered blocking of Telegram for the same reason.

https://medium.com/enrique-dans/why-blocking-telegram-in-spa...

It was reversed quickly on complaints, though.

Yeah in fact it never even happened. I set up some MTProto proxies for some of the communities I engage in but it was never actually needed.

It was exactly 1 year ago, I know because I ordered some domains for the proxies and I just got the final reminder.

Sony sued Quad9 in Germany back in 2021 and won an early injunction[1], however Quad9 successfully appealed[2]. Interestingly, Sony is now going after them in Italy according to that second article.

[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/sony-wins-pirate-site-blocking-orde...

[2]: https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-wins-pirate-site...

No, states fuck with DNS all the time; it's probably the single most legible control point on the Internet for governments.

ISPs being asked by the government to block sites at the DNS level is very common.