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"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. eBay has since been licensing the technology from the founders’ new company, Joltid, but the pair recently decided to revoke the licensing agreement. The matter is now the subject of a legal battle in the English High Court of Justice, with eBay trying to force Joltid to... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

I knew there was a reason I started to move away from Skype a couple of years ago... GTalk FTW! :0 No wait... my home phone is on Skype... Damn... :( - Travis Koger

I wonder if this is because the owners want eBay to sell Skype back to them. This might do it. - Susan Beebe

Great Article. Need to really get inot this habit of using the topic notes. - Lynette Batton from Bookmarklet