SOPA foe Fred Wilson supports a blacklist on pirate sites

Re:SOPA foe Fred Wilson supports a blacklist on pirate sites by dmethvin on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @03:23PM (#3595885)

And the blacklist message would go something like this:

> "Warning: The site you are about to open may be guilty of encouraging or facilitating copyright infringement or other illegal acts. Your use of this site may be used against you in criminal proceedings. Copyright infringement is a felony and can result in fines or imprisonment."

Must be fair, since they hedge with may be guilty, right?

This week, several antivirus vendors declared the Google CDN version of jQuery 1.7.1 to be malicious, most likely as innocent bystanders to a major unrelated Wordpress attack. Thank goodness everyone would put their top guys on the blacklist job, so those kind of mistakes wouldn't happen.

https://twitter.com/#!/phphil/status/168991609113948160

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Re:SOPA foe Fred Wilson supports a blacklist on pirate sites by paulhauggis on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @05:13PM (#3596373)

"This week, several antivirus vendors declared the Google CDN version of jQuery 1.7.1 to be malicious, most likely as innocent bystanders to a major unrelated Wordpress attack."

This is why you should always download jquery and link to it locally.

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Re:SOPA foe Fred Wilson supports a blacklist on pirate sites by chc on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @06:09PM (#3596586)

You should always download jQuery and link it locally because antivirus vendors make stupid mistakes? That doesn't make much sense at all. They could just as well decide "/scripts/jquery-min.js" was a vulnerability if they found that on a lot of infected sites.

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