Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay 107
Saif writes to let us know that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have filed a copyright suit against eBay for altering and sharing the peer-to-peer source code behind the calling service. The founders managed to maintain ownership of the source and licensed it to eBay in their 2005 deal and are now seeking an injunction and statutory damages which could total more than $75 million per day. "Mr. Zennstrom and Mr. Friis have developed a reputation for litigiousness in some legal circles. They filed three separate lawsuits against Pamela Colburn, an investment banker who represented them in the original sale of Skype, in the United States, the Netherlands and Britain. In May, a British judge dismissed the case and said the two men's reason for pursuing the matter in his country 'remains inexplicable.' The buyers of Skype have not publicly addressed the founders' lawsuit against eBay in Britain or their potential legal liability."
KaZaaM! (Score:5, Funny)
kazaa/fasttrack founders suing for copyright violation? it's hard to know just where to begin...
- js.
They should have left negative feedback... (Score:5, Funny)
They should have just left negative feedback. Isn't that the policy for a bad transaction on eBay anyways?
Summary must have been written by a lawyer (Score:3, Funny)
You can see he has a key with "(TM)" on it
Re:what a horseship contract (Score:2, Funny)
conclusion: put them all in a room, with their laywers. on the titanic. hit an iceberg. it's a start.
Unfortunately, the Titanic sank in 1912. A chubby red-haired woman survived, but a floppy haired blonde guy froze in the water. There was a movie about it a few years ago.
Re:Basically (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Some people. (Score:3, Funny)
Can I suggest you contact your local ACORN office? They can help you set up a tax dodge for the island and probably arrange women through their contacts in Tijuana...
Re:Basically (Score:2, Funny)
Can't advise you on a 24-hour chapel, but I can advise you not to quit your day job.
Re:They should have left negative feedback... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Brilliant Hack (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They should have left negative feedback... (Score:3, Funny)
Sellers can't leave negative feedback.
Re:Basically (Score:5, Funny)
Copyright law -- is there any chaos it can't cause?
There's plenty, but don't you worry - it's covered by patent law.
Re:Genius! (Score:3, Funny)
"Either that or eBay's lawyers must be the world's biggest idiots."
So that's where the IBM lawyers that negotiated the MS-DOS contract ended up.