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Can China kill Skype with the new cloned protocol?
by Staff Writer | posted on 16 July 2006
"They could literally turn the lights off on Skype in China very, very quickly," reports Jeremy Kirk who claims to have discovered a Chinese "reverse engineered" version of the free PC-to-PC software.
Skype has dismissed the accuracy of the reports, and claims that even if it could be done, it won't affect the Skype business model.
The source of the Kirk story is Charlie Paglee, the chief executive officer of Vozin Communications, "a voice-over-IP company that offers the Talqer plug-in for Google Talk, and which has operations in China and California," said the story.
Paglee said he "knows the people in the small company that reverse engineered the Skype protocol."
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