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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. What a Bunch of Goodfells by mfh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Henry Hill: [narrating] You know, we always called each other goodfellas. Like, you'd say to somebody: "You're gonna like this guy; he's all right -- he's on my buddy list. He's a goodfella. He's one of us." You understand? We were goodfellas, wiseguys.

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  2. Re:Incase you are new here..... by Heembo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So my question is, is slashdot truly the "will of the folks who post" or is there upper-level editing going on that has an agenda?

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