The Skype EULA is a bit shocking anyway...

From what was (once believed to be) point to point encryption became:

www.skype.com/legal/eula/

"
...
3.2.4 Licence: You hereby grant to Skype a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to Use the Content in any media in connection with the Skype Software, the Products and the Skype Website.
...
Content: means any and all content consisting of text, sounds, pictures, photos, video and/or any type of information or communications.
...
"

They might soon have a TV channel: 'funniest Skype calls of the day'
The EULA seems to cover that already...

This is not just the grey suits rattling their sabers. eBay has conceded the Skype acquisition hasn’t worked as originally conceived. Synergies with eBay’s business did not materialize and performance benchmarks on original deal price were not met.

If eBay indeed wants to take Skype public, why the seemingly negative talk on its unwanted stepchild? It is strange they do not show more confidence in ability to dispense with the Joltid technology and develop their own before an IPO or going to court in 2010. eBay just wants Skype out of the house and they are haggling with the founders on what it will take to make all parties go away happy.

Meanwhile the potential scupper to Skype's service is an opportunity for new alternative VOIP services that are innovating where eBay hasn't. I have recently found one called Zenring, which extends beyond Skype to allow free global calling from your mobile and frees you from your headset, PC and location. Zenring provides free international calls for Mobile-to-Mobile, Mobile-to-PC, PC-to-Mobile, and PC-to-PC without the need to buy credits like Skype and others.

So fear not a cut off Skype users, Zenring is available now to all users to join globally. Its free to join and free to use. Please take a look at http://www.zenring.com

I hope that whichever lawyers checked this deal through and then okayed buying the Skype family silver, but neglected to realise the knives and forks might be useful, are publicly named, shamed and struck off.
We could do with some lawyer culling.

SEC filings are always predicting the negative outcome of legal dispute, its a way for higher management to cover their personal behinds from shareholders' lawsuits; even if they are 100% sure they will win they state there is a risk of losing it, so that doesn't really mean anything. People should stop reading into SEC filings more than to gain past statistical figures.

What are you talking about?

I hope Skype go down! Not because of this stupid legal case but for trying to own part of the internet.
I've got an IP and I'm not afraid to use it!

Skype potentially shutting down? Good riddance. 'Twas about time SIP standard-based services took over. Google Voice, anyone?

Including syntactically correct versions.

I claim ownership over any form of:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("Hello world");
return 0;
}

Any infringement of my ownership will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.