[governance] FW: [IP] Shock threat to shut Skype

[Michael Gurstein]

Anyone agree with me that Skype, like medical care, is too essential a
service to be left to the market...
 
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...
 
How does one declare an Internet service as essential to the global interest
and introduce some means to ensure its survival?
 
MBG
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave at farber.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:13 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Shock threat to shut Skype

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bill Daul <bdaul at pacbell.net>
Date: July 31, 2009 7:20:29 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
Subject: Shock threat to shut Skype


Asher Moses

July 31, 2009 - 1:38PM   

eBay says it may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the
founders of the internet telephony service.

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. 

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.

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.

<..>


http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/shock-threat-to-shut-skype-2009073
1-e3qe.html




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