Even remembering IP addresses isn’t a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.
As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized…to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can’t be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.
Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they’ve essentially said “fuck off”.
IMO, that’s going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.
Even remembering IP addresses isn’t a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.
As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized…to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can’t be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.
Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they’ve essentially said “fuck off”.
IMO, that’s going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.