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Skype founders sue eBay for $75M per day
- zandorg 17y agoDefine greed? Selling a 2-bit p2p company for 1.6 BILLION and then bitching about it. Even the YouTube guys haven't done that and theirs was a bigger initial investment. [Edit: Not saying the YouTube guys would, but it's a good comparison]
- paul9290 17y agoA copyright infringement suit - HA, that's funny coming from the guys who created Kazaa.
- andreyf 17y agoI think they've learned well from their adversaries that laws can be used for financial gain, not just for justice.
- staunch 17y agoI don't know if it's true or not (they are litigious, CYA), but it appears as though it's possible that maybe Niklas Zennstrom or Janus Friis were trying to blackmail eBay into selling Skype back to them cheap and this is the punishment for not doing so.
- gojomo 17y agoHow did eBay pay $2.6B for Skype and not obtain eternal, iron-clad rights to use and create derivative works of all IP contained within? Who did the due diligence? Who handled the acquisition paperwork? If eBay used any external counsel or investment bankers on the deal, they may be the next to be sued. Unless the Joltid claims are total bunk, and thrown out quickly.
- nopassrecover 17y ago"They claim that eBay’s altering and misuse of their code could total to more than $75 million per day in damages, as each download of Skype is considered by them to be copyright infringement. If you do the math, that’s over $27 billion per year. How they came up with that extraordinary number we cannot even begin to comprehend." I certainly don't know of any other industry that estimates damages based on each download.
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