{"id":350,"date":"2009-08-02T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-08-02T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T01:37:00","slug":"skype-in-danger-of-being-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/08\/skype-in-danger-of-being-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype in danger of being shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/c.skype.com\/i\/images\/logos\/skype_logo.png\" src=\"http:\/\/c.skype.com\/i\/images\/logos\/skype_logo.png\" \/><br \/>Back in 2005, eBay bought Skype from Joltid. The 2.6 billion dollar price tag did not include the &#8220;Global Index P2P software<br \/>&#8221; that Skype is based on. Joltid is trying to cancel the license that Skype uses for this technology. If this happens, the Skype service will be shut down permanently.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent quarterly report, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the following was announced:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Skype licenses peer-to-peer communication technology from Joltid Limited pursuant to a license agreement between the parties. The parties had been discussing a dispute over the license. In March 2009, Skype Technologies S.A. filed a claim in the English High Court of Justice (No. HC09C00756) against Joltid Limited. Following the filing of the claim, Joltid purported to terminate the license agreement between the parties.<\/p>\n<p>Read more @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/main\/09\/08\/01\/skype-in-danger-of-being-shut-down\">Neowin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005, eBay bought Skype from Joltid. The 2.6 billion dollar price tag did not include the &#8220;Global Index P2P software&#8221; that Skype is based on. Joltid is trying to cancel the license that Skype uses for this technology. If this happens, the Skype service will be shut down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}