"Companies that have lax attitudes about piracy on their networks brazenly hide behind so-called commitments to 'free speech'."
""This is a theft of intellectual property issue," he said. "Free speech is incredibly important. That's why it is dangerous to equate this to free speech, which is something to cherish and takes a lot of effort to have. I don't think you want to encumber that with piracy and I think there is no basis for doing that.""
""It takes some effort to detect piracy," he said. "It is easier to just ignore it. And less expensive, and especially if you are making money by ignoring it.""
"The right to free speech is not the right to steal somebody else's content and distribute it."
A rival CDN chief characterized piracy as intellectual property theft and warned against equating piracy with free speech. The chief said free speech is valuable and should not be encumbered by the right to steal and redistribute copyrighted content. The executive argued that some providers ignore piracy because detection takes effort and allowing it can be cheaper or profitable. The CDN asserted it will not permit pirates to use its platform and will take action to stop illegal streams. The executive also described at least one incident where a legitimate client's infrastructure was hijacked to carry piracy alongside other workloads.
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