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"Racketeering" law invoked in suit against Skype founders
by Guy J Kewney | posted on 27 March 2006
It's been simmering quietly since January: a lawsuit by Streamcast, creator of Morpheus, against Skype. But what makes it interesting is the grounds for the suit: the case has invoked Rico - which stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
The news comes from Andy Abramson's blog, and it comes with convincing detail: Abramson quotes "documents fled in the U.S. District Court's central district of California (Western Division - Los Angeles)."
And he quotes further: "A civil docket for case number: 2:06-cv-00391-FMC-E - that back on January 20th StreamCast Networks, best known for their Peer to Peer technology, called Morpheus, filed a RICO suit against Skype Technologies SA, Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, BlueMoon OU (the company that reportedly did a lot of the development work on Skype) alleging RICO violations.
More as it emerges.
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