Fred Wilson to Media Execs: ‘Everybody, and I Mean Everybody, Is a Pirate’

His post-SOPA alternative? Have Google, Facebook, and Mozilla blacklist pirate sites.

At the Paley Center for Media yesterday, New York tech’s paterfamilias Fred Wilson offered something largely absent from recent anti-SOPA debates: a plan for an alternative. Better yet, he wasn’t just preaching to the choir. Rather, the Union Square Ventures managing partner broke on through to the other side: media execs.

Last month, he seemed frustrated, tweeting out “#screwcable” when a feud between MSG and Time Warner Cable forced Mr. Wilson to consume pirated content if he wanted to see the (pre-Linsanity) Knicks. But during yesterday’s talk, Mr. Wilson seemed more convinced of the universality of the condition. Read More

Fred Wilson to Media Execs: ‘Everybody, and I Mean Everybody, Is a Pirate’