"A new delivery boy: In June, Akamai and MIT together sued Limelight, which describes itself as 'the content network for digital media.' At issue are two MIT patents licensed exclusively to Akamai. One covers software that captures and copies data from a website so that it may be distributed across an unlimited number of servers. The other, according to The Boston Globe, is for a process for capturing photos and images to be used by content delivery networks (CDNs), which bring the Web geographically closer to users."
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