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RICO Suit Filed Against Skype Founders

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jealous-of-success dept.

Stitch_Surfs writes "Defendant Skype Technologies S A, Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, Kazaa, Bluemoon Ou and a slew of others have been named in a Rico Suit Filed by StreamCast Networks, of Houston, Texas. StreamCast is the company credited with the development of the Peer to Peer Technology called Morpheus. From the little information the courts have released, StreamCast is claiming that the group engaged in corrupt business practices."

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  1. RICO is scary by tehpwn · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's quite scary that a group named Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization is allowed to fill suit against honest companies!

    1. Re:RICO is scary by corrosive_nf · · Score: 4, Funny

      I cant tell if that is sarcasm or stupidity.

    2. Re:RICO is scary by 110010001000 · · Score: 1, Funny

      This is Slashdot. What do you think?

      In case anyone else was wondering, RICO is the name of the act that is the basis for the lawsuit. See http://www.ricoact.com/ for more information.

  2. Is there a picture of PayPal when you look up RICO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A picture is worth a thousand words...

  3. Rico? by sootman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Suave!

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  4. Can RICO Act be used against the RIAA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization

    Wow! I didn't know that.

    Can't this Act be used against the RIAA? Protection rackets seem to be exactly what RICO is about.

  5. Re:RICO use and abuse - Or Not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, telling someone they are going to hell is a threat. But I am glad you don't think it is. It makes the following hypothetical statements purely academic. I hope you go to hell when you die, since you support murdering doctors. I wish for you a short life, since you support murdering women by forcing them to continue medically-unsafe pregnancies. But, please, please, don't consider any of the above a threat. It's not. Really, it's not.

    Exactly.

  6. Racketeering? Extorsion? by joeme1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is that like when you drop loved ones off or pick them up at the airport and have to go inside the building for about half an hour? You CAN'T park in front of the airport, you are FORCED to park in their lot at high $/minute rates. See, even the government is involved in this dispicable practice. I gues I could just kick my wife out the door of the car and keep rolling...

  7. Re:Query... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it possible that SteamCast is a surrogate for a larger organization or consortium?

    Yes. That is possible.

  8. Re:Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    RICO: any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, arson, robbery, bribery and copyright infringement.

    Question to people with a fragment of common sense left: what does not fit in?

    (To make things a bit easier for our US-American friends, I have emboldened the term.)

  9. Oblig. Gangster Quote by cyphercell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mother of God, is this the end of Rico?

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