$4.1bn Skype lawsuit dropped
US District Court judge Florence-Marie Cooper has dismissed the $4.1 billion anti-trust lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks against VOIP service provider Skype, eBay and more than a dozen defendants, reports TMCNet.
StreamCast, a distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software, challenged in court that it had rights to the FastTrack/Kazaa P2P software engine on which it contends that Morpheus is based.
The VOIP service provider was hit with the charges in March 2006, as it was named, along with a group of assorted companies, in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act case brought by StreamCast in California.
Illegal VOIP equipment seized in Bangladesh
The Rapid Action Battalion has seized VOIP equipment worth around Tk 25 crore, busting an unscrupulous phone service business in Bangladesh, reports the Daily Star.
This recovery brings the tally to eight busts of unauthorised VOIP business centres since 26 December. The total seized items would be worth several hundred crore taka, Rab officials said.
Illegal VOIP operators use the equipment to generate or terminate overseas calls by first turning voice calls into data, routing it over the Internet and then turning the data into voice again.
Bangladesh officials issue VOIP warning
Bangladesh government officials have warned against clandestine overseas phoning through VOIP that deprives the exchequer of huge amounts of revenue, reports All Headline News.
"Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) is the lone legitimate organisation approved by the government for call termination and call origination abroad," an official statement says.
The government reminded that illegal call termination and call origination contravenes the law and is a punishable offence.
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