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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=311000016-31072009><FONT
color=#0000ff face=Arial>Anyone agree with me that Skype, like medical
care, is too essential a service to be left to the
market...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=311000016-31072009>I'm not sure what can be done about this but it seems
to me that this (or at least this class of issues) would be a suitable
discussion topic for the next Internet Governance
Forum...</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=311000016-31072009>How does one declare an Internet service as essential
to the global interest and introduce some means to ensure its
survival?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=311000016-31072009> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 31, 2009
6:13 AM<BR><B>To:</B> ip<BR><B>Subject:</B> [IP] Shock threat to shut
Skype<BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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color=#000000 size=3 face=Helvetica><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT
style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3 face=Helvetica>Bill Daul <<A
href="mailto:bdaul@pacbell.net">bdaul@pacbell.net</A>></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000 size=3 face=Helvetica><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT
style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3 face=Helvetica>July 31, 2009 7:20:29 AM
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color=#000000 size=3 face=Helvetica><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT
style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3 face=Helvetica>Dave Farber <<A
href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</A>></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000 size=3 face=Helvetica><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT
style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3 face=Helvetica><B>Shock threat to shut
Skype</B></FONT></DIV>
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<H5>Asher Moses</H5><CITE>July 31, 2009 - 1:38PM</CITE> <SPAN
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<P>eBay says it may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the
founders of the internet telephony service.</P>
<P>The surprise admission puts a cloud over the 40 million active daily users
around the world who use Skype for business or to keep in touch with friends and
far-flung relatives. </P>
<P>A recent study by market researcher TeleGeography found Skype carried about 8
per cent of all international voice traffic, making it the world’s largest
provider of cross-border voice communications.</P>
<P>The online auction powerhouse bought Skype from entrepreneurs Niklas
Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $US2.6 billion in 2005, but this did not include a
core piece of peer-to-peer communications technology that powers the
software.</P></DIV></BOD>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000><B>Bill Daul</B><BR><BR>Chief Collaboration
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href="http://www.human-landscaping.com/nextnow">http://www.human-landscaping.com/nextnow</A><BR><A
href="http://www.nextnow.net/">http://www.nextnow.net</A> -- NN Network
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