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Richard Steinfeld
I apologize in advance if this post is "OT."
I just read about Skype for the first time today. I'm
suspicious -- who is paying?
Of particular note from Reuters today:
"Zennstrom [president of Skype] co-founded Kazaa, the computer
peer-to-peer file-sharing software that enabled millions to
download music from the Internet for free and caused much pain to
record companies. "
As I recall, Kazaa is/was a superstar of abusive spyware, and
Zennstrom was the perp-in-chief. Is this a case of "here we go
again?" Who pays this piper? Will Skype rape my computer in the
manner of Real Player (which performed more than 5,000 logged
changes to my operating system)? Is there a pound of flesh that
it'll take from my hide? Anybody know?
Richard
I just read about Skype for the first time today. I'm
suspicious -- who is paying?
Of particular note from Reuters today:
"Zennstrom [president of Skype] co-founded Kazaa, the computer
peer-to-peer file-sharing software that enabled millions to
download music from the Internet for free and caused much pain to
record companies. "
As I recall, Kazaa is/was a superstar of abusive spyware, and
Zennstrom was the perp-in-chief. Is this a case of "here we go
again?" Who pays this piper? Will Skype rape my computer in the
manner of Real Player (which performed more than 5,000 logged
changes to my operating system)? Is there a pound of flesh that
it'll take from my hide? Anybody know?
Richard