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You probably did not understand the issue. The domain in question is a part of a copyrigth protection scheme. Blocking access to it is a circumvention of copyright protection scheme and it is illegal under DMCA. No, you cannot block hosts that are a part of a copyright protection scheme and you cannot distribute the software that does that.

How you block the domain - with a simple string or an automatically trained neural network - doesn't matter.

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I can block anything I like. And I can do whatever I like to help others do that. And I'll make sure that nobody can stop me, or them, or threaten me about it.

Well, if you do not live in the DMCA country then you are correct.

I make sure that nobody knows who I am, or where I live in meatspace.

> The domain in question is a part of a copyrigth protection scheme. Blocking access to it is a circumvention of copyright protection scheme and it is illegal under DMCA.

You're asserting things to be true that are very much in question, and the assertion borders on the absurd.

Is it also a DMCA violation to add firewall rules to ones own network equipment?

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