A: Because the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) orders ISPs (Jio, Airtel, Vi) to block the domains. The pirate operators buy new cheap domain names (e.g., .bid, .live, .top) to evade the blocks.

This is the most immediate danger. Security firms like Kaspersky and Norton consistently rate piracy sites like 9xmovies as "Extremely High Risk."

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