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

[McTim]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Michael Gurstein<gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone agree with me that Skype, like medical care, is too essential a
> service to be left to the market...

no

>
> 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?

eBay spent 2.6 B USD on this thing...do you think they will actually
shut it down?
-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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