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

[Deirdre Williams]

Do you have any information about the other side of the story?
This seems to be the eBay side. It would be good to know why this happened.
And yes - PLEASE let's try to do something
Deirdre


2009/7/31 Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>:
> 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-20090731-e3qe.html
>
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