The Pirate Bay sends a message

While catching up on Wired’s security blog, 27B Stroke 6, I found the following amusing article:

Hidden Message from the Pirate Bay
Those jaunty buccaneers in Sweden have changed the reverse-DNS on their raided-and-resurrected torrent site to deliver a victory message to the MPAA, and the Swedish equivalent, APB.

$ ping thepiratebay.org
PING thepiratebay.org (83.140.176.146) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org (83.140.176.146): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=183 ms

[tags]The Pirate Bay, PirateBay, MPAA, Wired security blog, 27B Stroke 6[/tags]