“A takedown is essential, and it can interrupt access for a moment. But it does not dismantle the business behind it.”
They seized over a thousand domains, the sites moved to .ir and .su, and now the MPA wants judicial site blocking as the next escalation. That is the whole enforcement cycle in one story. Every round ends with the industry asking for broader powers because the last set did not work, and the blocking infrastructure they build never gets used only for what it was sold for. The 156 million visits in July are the more interesting number, since people paying for four streaming services still could not legally watch the match.