--- title: Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, can do edge AI alone description: Akamai CEO Tom Leighton argues that fighting video piracy is about stopping intellectual property theft and criminal profit, not restricting free speech. He... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/akamai-ceo-wants-help-to-defeat-piracy-can-do-edge-ai-alone-bm9i2ilhw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, can do edge AI alone | daily.dev og:description: Akamai CEO Tom Leighton argues that fighting video piracy is about stopping intellectual property theft and criminal profit, not restricting free speech. He... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/akamai-ceo-wants-help-to-defeat-piracy-can-do-edge-ai-alone-bm9i2ilhw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BM9i2Ilhw.png og:image:alt: Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, can do edge AI alone og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, can do edge AI alone **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Akamai CEO Tom Leighton argues that fighting video piracy is about stopping intellectual property theft and criminal profit, not restricting free speech. He criticizes competitors who ignore piracy, stating Akamai uses watermarking and token-based detection to identify illegal streams and works with customers to take them down. Leighton calls for public-private partnerships to create effective deterrence. Separately, Akamai is building edge AI inferencing infrastructure through its Linode acquisition, planning deployment in around 100 cities worldwide using CPUs and older GPUs positioned near users, similar to its CDN architecture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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