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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. Pacer by Tester · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can anyone with a Pacer account get the complaint full text ?

    1. Re:Pacer by evil+agent · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Good question. And here's another one:

      Can we please stop linking to these damn blogs. Especially ones that are nearly devoid of any useful info.

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  2. No way by wkitchen · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From the little information the courts have released, StreamCast is claiming that the group engaged in corrupt business practices.
    No way. The good folks at Skype would never engage in corrupt business practices
  3. Re:Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization by Thing+1 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I swear, law and military op names have been getting more and more riduculous for years.

    Ridiculous to the informed, yes. Unfortunately, however, rather functional on the uninformed. Thus, their use. Which saddens me; third-world countries keep their populace uneducated because it helps the leaders defraud them.

    Holy shit, is that what the "No Child Left Behind" unfunded mandate was all about? Give props to education, but no financial support for it--so it looks like the government is doing something good, whereas they're really dumbing us down to be the next soldiers or oil field workers?

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