Belgium’s Department for Combating Online Infringement (BAPO) continues to build out the country’s site-blocking regime at a steady pace.
Since the framework officially launched in 2025, a series of orders have targeted sports streaming sites, shadow libraries, movie piracy portals, and pirate IPTV services.
The official blocklist has grown to more than 1,000 domain names and a new order, issued by the President of the French-speaking Business Court of Brussels on July 3, classified 113 additional domain names as copyright infringing.
French Piracy Portals
BAPO published its implementation decision on 10 July, without revealing the names of the requesting rightsholders. However, since the targeted sites mostly deal with movie and TV piracy, it would not be a surprise if it comes from Hollywood, Netflix, and Apple again.
The implementation order does not mention any of the domains by name, but TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the full blocklist, which shows that 113 domain names were added through the latest order. Most of these domains are connected to the French-language download portals Zone-Telechargement and Wawacity. Others include Lookmovie, Movix and KissKH.
The order requires five of Belgium’s large ISPs, including Telenet, Proximus, Mobile Vikings, Orange Belgium, and DIGI Communications, to block these sites. Unlike one of the earlier orders, it does not require third-party DNS resolvers to act.
The French-language orientation makes sense given it was issued by the French-speaking Business Court of Brussels, but it also connects this order to a much older enforcement cycle in a neighboring country.
Blocks are Outdated Already
The list of all new domains, which is available below, shows that Zone-Telechargement and Wawacity use a wide variety of largely identical novelty TLDs. This appears to be a direct response to site blocking orders issued by France’s ARCOM.
Each time French ISPs implement a new round of DNS blocks, the operators register a fresh domain name and redirect their user base through dedicated landing pages and Telegram channels. These updates happen so frequently that the Belgian site blocking order was already outdated before ISPs got the chance to implement it.
To illustrate, the order includes 37 Wawacity domains and 36 Zone-Telechargement domains. However, both sites have been operating from a .poker TLD since July 9th, and several of the previous iterations such as .codes and .expert are not in the Belgian blocklist either.
The rightsholders are aware of the domain hopping habits of these sites, as they specifically requested the court to block “signpost” information pages that help people to bypass blockades.
Blocking Info Pages With No Infringing Content
For example, the blocklist includes wawacity-info.com and zone-telechargement-info.com. These sites do not host copyrighted content and do not link to any infringing files. They are simple landing pages that tell visitors what the current active domain is, and how blocking measures can be bypassed.
Rightsholders asked the court to block these domain names as well and this request was granted by the court and also approved in BAPO’s implementation order. While the signpost pages don’t link directly to infringing material, they are facilitating access.
This would fall under the Belgian blocking powers and the “facilitate access” language is specifically referenced in the implementation order, as shown above.
Whac-A-Mole
The two blocked signpost pages are nearly identical, suggesting that Wawacity and Zone-Telechargement are run by the same operation. This also explains why they change their domain names in tandem.
Whether the operators plan to change the domain names of their signpost pages is unclear. They also update tens of thousands of followers through Telegram, where the messaging is again identical, which points to a joint operation.
These sites are not the only ones that regularly change domain names either. Movix, which is also targeted in the same order, has already moved to a new TLD as well and remains accessible.
If anything, the Belgian example shows that site blocking itself is far from a perfect remedy. Although BAPO’s blocking order can be updated weekly with up to 50 new domains, pirate site operators often only need a few minutes to direct traffic to a new TLD.
It would not be a surprise to see rightsholders target the Telegram channels next, hoping to further limit the exposure. Whether these and other measures will eventually break the morale of pirates has yet to be seen.
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A copy of BAPO’s most recent implementation decision is available here (pdf). The full Belgian piracy blacklist is published on the FPS Economy website.
A list of all newly added domain names is available below:
– animepahe.pw
– animepahe.com
– animepahe.org
– anime-sama.to
– anime-sama.pw
– anime-sama.org
– anime-sama.si
– anime-sama.tv
– kisskh.co
– kisskh.do
– kisskh.id
– kisskh.la
– kisskh.ovh
– kisskh.at
– kissdl.eu
– lookmovie.foundation
– lookmovie.pn
– lookmovie0.to
– lookmovie2.la
– lookmovie2.pe
– lookmovie2.to
– lookmovie4.to
– lookmovie5.to
– lookmovie6.to
– lookmovie7.to
– lookmovie8.to
– lookmovie9.to
– lookmovie.com
– movix.cash
– movix.chat
– movix.cloud
– movix.golf
– movix.club
– movix.llc
– movix.online
– streamex.net
– streamex.sh
– voir-anime.to
– watchseries.bar
– watchseries.best
– wawacity.tours
– wawacity-info.com
– wawacity.beauty
– wawacity.click
– wawacity.cv
– wawacity.diy
– wawacity.energy
– wawacity.farm
– wawacity.futbol
– wawacity.golf
– wawacity.gratis
– wawacity.im
– wawacity.ing
– wawacity.irish
– wawacity.lat
– wawacity.lifestyle
– wawacity.motorcycles
– wawacity.news
– wawacity.party
– wawacity.pet
– wawacity.pictures
– wawacity.pizza
– wawacity.promo
– wawacity.rent
– wawacity.rodeo
– wawacity.run
– wawacity.shop
– wawacity.supply
– wawacity.surf
– wawacity.taxi
– wawacity.team
– wawacity.tips
– wawacity.today
– wawacity.tools
– wawacity.town
– wawacity.win
– wawacity.zone
– zone-telechargement.tours
– zone-telechargement-info.com
– zone-telechargement.beauty
– zone-telechargement.cv
– zone-telechargement.diy
– zone-telechargement.energy
– zone-telechargement.farm
– zone-telechargement.futbol
– zone-telechargement.golf
– zone-telechargement.gratis
– zone-telechargement.im
– zone-telechargement.ing
– zone-telechargement.irish
– zone-telechargement.meme
– zone-telechargement.monster
– zone-telechargement.motorcycles
– zone-telechargement.news
– zone-telechargement.party
– zone-telechargement.pet
– zone-telechargement.pictures
– zone-telechargement.pizza
– zone-telechargement.promo
– zone-telechargement.rent
– zone-telechargement.rodeo
– zone-telechargement.run
– zone-telechargement.shop
– zone-telechargement.supply
– zone-telechargement.surf
– zone-telechargement.taxi
– zone-telechargement.team
– zone-telechargement.tips
– zone-telechargement.today
– zone-telechargement.tools
– zone-telechargement.town
– zone-telechargement.win
– zone-telechargement.zone
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