diff --git a/plugins/commands/at.rb b/plugins/commands/at.rb
index df3d460..a8c0a80 100644
--- a/plugins/commands/at.rb
+++ b/plugins/commands/at.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'net/http'
+require 'em-net-http'
 require 'json'
 require 'time'
 
diff --git a/plugins/commands/cycki.rb b/plugins/commands/cycki.rb
index 77fd612..88456b7 100644
--- a/plugins/commands/cycki.rb
+++ b/plugins/commands/cycki.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'net/http'
+require 'em-net-http'
 require 'nokogiri'
 
 Client.register_command("cycki") { |args|
diff --git a/plugins/commands/gentoo-bugs.rb b/plugins/commands/gentoo-bugs.rb
index 0cc7a14..d1b5326 100644
--- a/plugins/commands/gentoo-bugs.rb
+++ b/plugins/commands/gentoo-bugs.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'net/http'
+require 'em-net-http'
 require 'nokogiri'
 
 Client.register_command("bug") { |args|
diff --git a/plugins/commands/kotki.rb b/plugins/commands/kotki.rb
index 0c144fd..0abaedf 100644
--- a/plugins/commands/kotki.rb
+++ b/plugins/commands/kotki.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'net/http'
+require 'em-net-http'
 require 'uri'
 
 Client.register_command("kotki") { |args|
diff --git a/plugins/commands/sjp.rb b/plugins/commands/sjp.rb
index a4dd508..1548b73 100644
--- a/plugins/commands/sjp.rb
+++ b/plugins/commands/sjp.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'net/http'
+require 'em-net-http'
 require 'nokogiri'
 
 Client.register_command("sjp") { |args|
diff --git a/plugins/scrape.rb b/plugins/scrape.rb
index 3ceb18f..ea5a77f 100644
--- a/plugins/scrape.rb
+++ b/plugins/scrape.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require 'open-uri'
+require 'em-http-request'
 require 'digest/md5'
 require 'data_mapper'
 require 'nokogiri'
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ DataMapper.setup(:default, Config[:scrape][:db])
 module Scrape
     def self.download(uri)
         ext = "." + uri.sub(/.*[.]([^.]*)/, '\1') if uri.match(/[^.]+[.][^.]+/)
-        content = open(uri).read
+        content = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
         md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(content)
         File.open(Config[:scrape][:basepath] + md5 + ext, 'w') do |file|
             file.write(content)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Client.register_trigger("PRIVMSG") do |msg|
                 url = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(word)
             end
 
-            title = Nokogiri::HTML(open(word).read(10240)).title()
+            title = Nokogiri::HTML(Net::HTTP.get(word)).title()
             title = title.gsub(/[\s]+/, " ").strip if not title.nil?
 
             Scrape::Link.create(