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by ajpiano 5645 days ago
We did a lot of analysis of the sites that were actually hotlinking, and are planning to reach out to those that are above board and should know better. By and large, however, most of the sites that were hotlinking were porn/phishing/generally nefarious, which weighed heavily into our decision to pull the plug relatively soon. Serving people who need jQuery and jQuery UI documentation, etc., is a higher priority than not-pulling-the-rug-out-from-under networks of porn sites - people who have more than adequate access to their own hosting and distribution resources.
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OTOH, TaylorSwift.com was also hotlinking, which is pretty awesome.
I am currently trying to talk to Taylor about sharing cdn resources.

If anyone is not aware, one of the best CDNs out there for getting jQuery is the Taylor Swift "TaylorNation" cdn.

http://cdn.thetaylornation.com/taylornation/resources/displa...

I encourage everyone to use it.

slexaxton imma let you finish... but amazon has one of the best cdns of all time