“The DNS does not contain content - it is a system designed for delivery only of pointers, not for data transport.”
Sony Entertainment Germany spent more than two years trying to make a Swiss nonprofit DNS resolver block canna.to, a Tonga domain pointing at servers outside Germany. Leipzig and Hamburg sided with Sony. The Dresden appeals court found Sony hadn’t done enough to go after the hosting company. Sony went after the cheapest target in the chain, and Italy’s major labels have already sent Quad9 the next blocking demand.