~ Stage6 hack ~

I have been watching many movies which are hosted on stage6 for the past one year. Most of the movies or videos I watched where referenced from either DivxTube or DivxLive sites.

When I tried to search the Stage6 site for the concert videos for few of my favorite thrash metal bands, I was unsuccesful. I approached the google dorks way, which still didn't make any significance difference to the search results.

Finally, today I found a easy way to search for videos hosted on Stage6. My search approach holds good for those videos that have been tagged by users.

The default search would return a list based on top ratings, which normally wouldn't be the one you are looking for. Instead I construct the URL for stage6, it isn't that complex. Follow the steps,

1) URL Pattern: http://www.stage6.com/videos/tag:[tag_name]

For Ex: http://www.stage6.com/videos/tag:metallica

2) Copy & Paste the URL in the address bar of your browser and hit enter. This would list all the videos belonging to Metallica or click here to do the same.

This resultset isn't much different than that of the default result. As said before the default search would order the videos based on the ratings. You can better this search, by using 'length' as the value on the order key.

1) URL Pattern: http://www.stage6.com/videos/tag:[tag_name]/order:length

For Ex: http://www.stage6.com/videos/tag:metallica/order:length

2) Copy & Paste the URL in the address bar of your browser and hit enter. This would list all the videos belonging to Metallica or click here to do the same.

Now you would definitely see the difference in results displayed. I finally got the video of Metallica & Symphony Orchestra I was looking for so many days.

Bahrain Grand Prix Live

Those who know me, know that I am sports addict. I never used to miss EPL & F1 races while I was back home in India. But, after moving to UK, things aren't the same here. You gotta pay yearly tax for watching TV and upon that you need to subscribe to those channels which are broadcasting these events. When you sum them up it would cost you quite a bit of money, so the smartest move anyone arriving to UK should be doing is to buy a broadband connection from anyone of the ISP, which would cost 18 pounds for 2Mbps line.

With a 2Meg connection, you can race away to glory. Well I mean you could watch a wide range of channels from various parts of the world for free. I wanted to watch today's Bahrain Grand Prix Live & was searching for some website to be streaming it. As always the popular P2P TV player SopCast is relaying the broadcast.

Here is what you need to do in order to watch Bahrain GP Live.

1. Go here SopCast
2. Download SopCast1.1.1 for Windows.
3. Unzip it & run the installer.
4. Run SopCast software on your machine.
5. Login with anonymous user if you aren't registered user.
6. Then click on Channels tab & you can see channels grouped under various groups - Sports, Movies, Music, etc.
7. Now, under Sports group choose channel 6003 - ESPN Sports & you can catch the F1 Bahrain GP race Live.

6 mintues left for the race to start; looking forward for the Prancing horses to win the race.

Am back...........

I know it has been a very long time since I wrote a post last year. I hope to be active this year posting more live video/audio streaming links.

Keep watching the space.

Post-mortem report on 'The censorship of blogging in India'

Here is my Post-mortem report on 'The censorship of blogging in India', If you are unable to relate to what I am saying then you should continue raeding this post.

What do u understand the term 'Censorship'? According to my favorite knowledge source, Wiki, here is the definition of the term.

'Censorship is the systematic use of group power to broadly control freedom of speech and expression, largely in regard to secretive matters. Sanitization (cleaning or decontamination) and whitewashing (from whitewash) are almost interchangeable terms that refer to particular acts or campaigns of censorship or omission which seek to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and facts which are already known, but which may conflict with a presented point of view.'

Currently, I live in India, the largest Democratic (gives me a sense of FALSE PRIDE) Nation in the world. I presume to have/had the freedom to express myself meaningfully on any subject, untill Government of India (GoI) on 13th July issued a notice to ban certain sites - Blogger - Blogpsot - Typepad - Geocities. This ban when enforced by the ISPs spread across the country, made an impact on the bloggers especially those on Blogger/Typepad only the following week i.e. 17-19th July. Even though this so called 'Censorship' lasted only for 3 days, this post mortem 'The censorship of blogging in India' shows the lack of knowledge in interpretation & implementation of the GoI's Notice by our Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Why did the GoI issue a notice to ban these sites/domains?
They say that terrorists/certain groups/individuals have been using blogs as a medium for communication, spreading hatred & inciting people for varied interests.

But, did the GoI actually issue a blanket ban on these domains or was it the implementation failure of our ISPs in blocking only certain URLs issued by the GoI?

After looking @ above scanned version of the Actual Document of the notice, the GoI never really issued a notice for blanket ban, rather the SICK ISPs need to blamed for creating the un-necessary confusion among the bloggers & the GoI.

The Post-mortem report:

The ISPs are the ones who are to be blamed for creating the confusion & depriving the freedom of expression & making the GoI look as the 'Culprit'.

Blogger.com, few bloggers & blogging as a concept, got a wide range of coverage from the National & International media.

Bloggers across the world were united in lending voice to this episode & I believe this led to the birth of a Google Group called BloggersCollective. If you wanna know more about them, then here are few useful links BloggersCollective and their website Bloggers Against Censorship.

Going further, if the GoI does plan to do something silly like issuing a notice for implementing a blanket ban on the entire blogging domains, I feel this episode should be studied carefully. The Government should address the issue in a more sensible manner by weighing lot of options before making a final call. There are millions of people who use 'Blogging' for various different purposed, U just can't make decisions based on few individual groups/individuals who abuse technology. Even if the GoI does issue such a blanket ban notice, there numerous ways to 'Circumvent' the censorship.

Even though I wanted to write a post on this subject last week, I wasn't able to do so....... the reason...... this time Blogger & Blogspot is banned @ workplace. The official reason behind the ban.....Effective utilization of Bandwidth in a proper manner.

Welcome to w3bmonk

Yes, yet another blog and this time it's mainly dedicated for the resources found on web.

Whatz with the name 'w3bm0nk'?
Google search engine has ignited my passion for Xploring the web and I owe a lot to Johnny Long, who is the author of the famous book 'Google Hacking for Penetration Testers'. The book along with few resources on the web has been the key for Xploring the underlying power of GSE or Google Search Engine. JohnnyLong also has a website [http://johnny.ihackstuff.com] which is the very popular & Internet’s largest repository of Google hacking techniques. Since, I use GSE for many things daily in an efficient way & often help friends/ppl for getting the right piece of information quickly, the name 'webmonk' was infer'd on me.

Disclaimer: Most of the resources/URLs which appears on this blog has been found one way or the other using GSE & I cannot be held responsible for posting them on this blog. I do this mainly for showing the weakness that exists in the implementations of the respective websites. Also the life of these resources lasts as long as the owner of the resource has realized it and fixed it.