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Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

Posted by Soulskill on from the trade-secret-my-son dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears Microsoft's Skype Division is cracking down on reverse-engineering of the Skype client. Skype recently rolled out a new set of APIs for integration into other desktop applications, but they have issued multiple DMCA takedown notices to a researcher publishing open-source code to send Skype messages."

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  1. Re:RIP Skype by ca111a · · Score: 5, Informative

    Skype was like this long before Microsoft. Fring supported video calls to Skype clients for several months, then Skype blocked it: http://blog.fring.com/en/?p=2322