Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone
20 January 2026 at 05:55
OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech
InterviewΒ When Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently threatened to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not disrupting pirate video streams, rival CDN provider Akamaiβs CEO Dr. Tom Leighton fired back with what reads a lot like thinly veiled criticism.β¦