Streamcast filed an updated complaint Monday morning, in their ongoing suit against Skype and 21 other companies. Andy Abramson first reported on this last March, and I wrote a summary of the suit at the time, from the faxed copy which Andy had uncovered. Monday’s update:
- Adds EBay to the suit. No surprise. EBay is the deep pockets.
- Asks for damages of $4 billion.
- Adds anti-trust allegations to the complaint.
- Seeks an injunction to prevent Skype from “selling” any more of their VoIP product.
Do you suppose Skype’s North American giveaway campaign was a legal gambit? Nah…. couldn’t be!
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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