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Internet news and analysis covering major online platforms, service outages, policy changes, enforcement actions, and infrastructure disruptions. Articles focus on events that impact how the web functions, including social networks, hosting providers, content platforms, DNS and cloud outages, browser behavior, and large-scale changes affecting users and businesses worldwide.

Internet 1 min read

The Pirate Bay seized, moves to thepiratebay.ac

Pirate Bay or "The Pirate Bay" is not down. The Pirate Bay has moved from thepiratebay.sx (.se) to thepiratebay.ac (Ascension Islands). The domain domain registry Sint Maarten which is where thepiratebay.sx's is registered appears to have been seized after being pressured by applied by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN to pay a fine of 25,000 euro per day to remain online.

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Internet 2 min read

Movie2k down – Movie2k seized by court-ordered warrant May 2013

Movie1k is down, seized by court order pushed by the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA). Courts have blocked access to the 201st most popular website in the world Movie2k and Download4all websites, you may be redirected to Google's home page or a blank page with a notification. Movie2k websites such as movie2k.com, movie2k.to, stream2k.com, etc. are reported to be blocked on May 30, 2013 to help protect against copyright infringement. In released statement:

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Internet 3 min read

How To Block And Remove Advertisements On The Internet

Are you tired of seeing advertisements on a majority of websites like Facebook.com and Botcrawl.com while browsing the internet? If so, it's very easy and free to block or remove advertisements from websites while browsing the internet using free, reputable browser helper objects (BHO), such as plugins, add-ons, extensions, and toolbars.

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Internet 2 min read

Facebook is down for many due to DNS error

The popular social media website Facebook.com is down due to a DNS error. Many have reported across the world that they can not access the 2nd most popular website in the world, next to Google.com. I personally noticed images missing prior to eventually failing to access the Facebook website altogether. When attempting to access Facebook.com Google Chrome read: The server at www.facebook.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.

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Internet 6 min read

How To Disable Alexa Toolbar And Uninstall Alexa Toolbar Extension

Disable and uninstall the Alexa Toolbar extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. This tutorial shows how to disable the Alexa Toolbar as well as Uninstall the Alexa Toolbar and Alexa Extension. The Alexa Toolbar is a legitimate Toolbar add-on (browser helper object) developed by Alexa.com that displays helpful information about websites visited including their Alexa score (popularity on the internet based on traffic), provides a pop-up blocker, web search, and other custom features.

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Internet 2 min read

Twitter Hacked Today – Major Password Resets In Motion

Twitter, including several Twitter accounts were hacked today Thursday November 8th, 2012 by an anonymous hacker or collective of hackers. While it is not released if any internal information was compromised or impacted, nor for what reason the attack was initiated, Twitter is taking the attack very serious and resetting what seems like hundreds of thousands of compromised account passwords.

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