PIRATE BAY FANS apparently have hacked a website that's on the US Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) entertainment cartel's payroll.
It seems that dedicated Pirate Bay users were on the warpath and targeted a website called Copyprotected. The website is a copy protection awareness front, designed so that punters can report copyright violations for DVD and Blu-ray movies.
According to the Sunbelt blog, the website is a front for the MPAA and it raised the ire of some annoyed Pirate Bay users. How did Sunbelt know it was Pirate Bay fans? Easy, the website has a couple of Google cache screenshots as evidence. The headline reads "Payback is a bitch, isn't it?", underneath which is Pirate Bay's logo of a pirate ship. Under that it reads "Operation:Payback".
Sunbelt forum members claim the hack was done using DNS cache poisoning. Joel Lathrop reported that the attack wasn't just a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) because it didn't just take out one of the MPAA's web servers.
"This appears to be an example of DNS cache poisoning. Someone managed to hijack the DNS registration for copyprotected.com such that it points to an IP with their own web server displaying their own page." That sounds a bit garbled to us, but maybe they're still reeling from the hack.
In September The INQUIRER reported that the MPAA and associated music Mafiaa company websites were hit with crippling DDoS attacks by the Internet vigilantes at 4Chan. The MPAA likes to threaten individuals with lawsuits so it probably has already called out its sniffer dogs to trace further attacks.
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