Police raided the Swedish hosting company PRQ today bringing down dozens of file sharing and torrent sites including torrenthound.com, atdhenet.tv, RLSLOG.net, tankafetast.nu, linkomanija.net and hahasport.com. The hosting firm was started by two Piratebay co-founders and has been as a reliable “no questions asked” hosting service that has been raided by the police at least twice before in 2006 and 2010. At this time, we don’t know exactly what they were looking for, only that it was a set of servers belonging to PRQ and as such, we don’t know if…

The recent SOPA/PIPA row has been making mass media headlines and bringing the censorship and copyright row to the main stream. Though SOPA/PIPA were temporarily defeated, there is no doubt that another iteration of these bills will resurface in the United States (as Maddox eloquently posits). Around the world, governments are imposing sanctions on ISP’s to block certain sites, the most frequently targeted are, of course, the pirate bay and wikileaks. Now, a group of evangelist WordPress developers from the Netherlands based Greenhost have built a plugin so that you…

The popular image posting website is going down sporadically tonight due to a 4chan led denial of service attack. The login, search registration and voting features are also failing on 9gag.com and no posts posts have been recorded since 17 hours ago. This was presumably to keep 4chan users from uploading obscene images and up-voting them to appear on the front page. It appears that 4chan users, specifically residents of the /b/ section, are fed up with their content being re-published and shared on 9gag. The attack is also in…

So SOPA is on the verge of being pushed through. One of it’s main features is that it allows copyright holders to request a black list of certain domains on a service provider’s DNS record. Websites will still be available through their ip adresses so in the event that any site is blocked you can either copy the associated ip into your browser url bar or edit your etc hosts file to point the blocked domain to it’s ip. If you are an American Citizen please sign this electronic petition…

Google’s search algorithm is one of the most complicated on the interent, factoring in a multitude of data about both the keyword you’re searching for as well as you the searcher. If you’re logged into your google account (gmail, youtube, ect.) then Google search will be able to read their own cookies to try to better personalize your search results. Even if you’re not signed into your Google account, Google search will still be able to gather search optimizing data from you based on what sites you’ve navigated to from…

This is a guest post by Ty from Good Canadian Kid. Check out GCK for thought provoking and humorous reads like GCK’s Favourite Mac Utility Application , The Ultimate Badass: Bishnu Shrestha and Marketing and (Pseudo) Science Online comments that reference blogs, podcasts, Youtube, memes, etc. can reveal a lot about the content in question. They give insight to the quality of the content and, in some circumstances, act as a microcosm that represents a larger community or fan base. After watching a video, listening to a podcast or reading…

November 3 2011 It looks like the popular quick silver screen (qss divx) site is down, giving a timeout error when accessed. The forum is a hotspot for the newest video links from 3rd party hosted services. The downtime is most likely related in some way to the community’s discontent with the Quick Silver Screen administration. The origional administration, who had let site fall into a state of somewhat disrepair, sold the site to a new party who was looking to capitolize on the efforts of many upaid volunteers. The…

Seriously try it! It’s probably one of the coolest Google search quirk/fringe to date.Click here to google it. The effect pays homage to the Nintendo 64 Starfox game, from which a friendly character’s advice to Do a Barrel Roll has turned into a geek cult saying. When typed into the Google’s search bar, the site will spin around the center bottom of the browser screen. It doesn’t work on mobile or antiquated browsers right now, so heres what you missing if your using one of those:

Internet TV is catching fast for its range of new-generation features and easy-to-watch tag. Its popularity is so widespread that watching TV online has become a part of modern day life. Thousands of channels, video on demand, any time TV watching, uncontrolled access across the board genres, easy to install, no monthly subscription, and worldwide access on Internet TV provide viewers a truly world-class service. You can connect to all networks, browse anything you want, and watch TV anywhere. And all these facilities come without any additional cost or hardware….

November 25, 2011 11:45PM EST EZTV is under alot of server stress, and has been forced down (for most) today. This is probably a legitimate traffic induced server resources overload as this is a historically high internet traffic weekend, and should be up and running soon. If you try refreshing a couple of times it may let you through to the site although it will be a bit slow. Please dont hammer the refresh button, this will just put the server under more stress. Either way, you can still access…

Soon after the jQuery 1.6.3 RC1 was made available to web developers, the official finished library was released. I guess testing went well! This is still pretty new so the jQuery crew need you to report any bugs! Notable Changes Fixed a cross site scripting attack vector: Script injection used to be possible when using location.hash to select elements. The new release disallows the use of html tags and, therefore scripts, in the $() if there is a # preceding it. Removed support for requestAnimationFrame API: This API would tell…

This new XBMC icefilms addon by Batch is similar to the existing Icefilms.info plugin from anarchintosh in that it uses the icefilms database to play movies from external hosting sites on you tv through the XBMC. The big difference though, is that IceLibrary will actually import these links of movies and TV shows to you XMBC library. It works pretty well but each time a user updates their video library with these linked files, Icefilms could have it’s entire site scraped – which very heavy on Icefilms.info’s server resources. The…