[oseityphelysiol]

How did they take it down the domain last time? Was it by picking on the registrar?

In my country they so this by asking all the ISPs to block the domain from their DNS servers. This works for 90% of the population, but all you have to do is just change the DNS server to something other than what the ISP gives you and you’re good to go.

Also, I just don’t get how current approach is any better. As far as I understand, there’s still a single point of failure, i.e. the site you get your “personal” domain from.

[EarlKing]

I'm honestly shocked no one has openly laughed themselves silly at the idea of "personalized domains" for a site openly engaging in piracy... because surely that wouldn't be a way to build a stronger case against individual users engaged in piracy, riiiiiight?

[hellotomyrars]

Depends. If the database that contains those domains and the account they are linked to is obtained by whatever law enforcement agency gets them, than sure. But the network of torrent piracy detection doesn’t work for this situation so it requires that database to be seized. It is also possible the information is not stored after it is processed. Because copyright trolls can’t get the information like they do with torrents either, they can’t easily send bullshit threatening notices to end users, and it is extremely doubtful that the FBI is going to provide linking information for individual prosecution. I don’t believe there is any example of that, though I’d be interested to hear otherwise.

[braingenious]

I have heard of people using throwaway emails and VPNs for this sort of stuff!

[jocaal]

you can get the personal domain from tor and then use the domain on the regular net.