OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
Newark-based internet telephony company, Net2Phone has taken on eBay and its subsidiary peer-to-peer VoIP provider Skype in a lawsuit, alleging that Skype has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net.
The law suit, filed in the US District court of Newark, alleges that
Skype infringed a patent filed by Net2Phone under US Patent Class 704,
which broadly covers data processing encompassing speech signal
processing, linguisitics, language translation, and audio
compression/decompression.
Like other law suits filed recently against big name companies with
deep pockets, the Net2Phone suit is going for broke, seeking damages
and an injunction against further infringement, which would basically
mean shutting the Skype service down.
Skype, which has more than 100 million users around the world, was
acquired by eBay in 2005 for between US$2.6 billion and US$4.1 billion,
depending on performance milestones being reached. Its service enables
users to place computer to computer calls for free and has a paid
service called SkypeOut, which enables users to place calls to
telephone landlines for a cheap timed rate of typically 1.5 euro cents a
minute. The company, which was founded in Luxemborg, has a very strong
European user base but has yet to gain traction in the US.
It is a fair bet, however, that Skype has ruffled more than few
feathers among US VoIP providers last month. In an effort to build its
US base, Skype announced that it would enable North American users of
its SkypeOut computer-based telephony service to place free calls to US
and Canadian telephone land lines and mobile phones until at least the
end of 2006.
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