News Summary

• Belgium was relatively late to the site blocking party, but since a dedicated anti-piracy department opened its doors, the country has caught up quickly.
• The first blocking order under this new regime, obtained by sports rightsholder DAZN in April 2025, started quite aggressively.
• In addition to major ISPs, it required Cloudflare, Google and Cisco to stop resolving pirate streaming domains through their public DNS services, under threat of €100,000 in fines per day.
• Cisco’s response was also aggressive, as the company pulled its OpenDNS service out of Belgium entirely.