Skype cleared in Streamcast anti-trust suit

Skype is now clear of a $4.1 billion antitrust lawsuit over the rights to some of the carrier's underlying technology. Streamcast, a distributor of the Morpheus peer-to-peer file sharing software, had claimed that it had had the rights of first refusal to buy the FastTrack technology at the root of Kazaa. Kazaa's founders sold it to someone else, so Streamcast sued pretty much anyone it could think of. Skype, Streamcast said, uses FastTrack. Whether it does or not, a U.S. district judge has tossed the suit, saying Streamcast didn't make its case.

For more information about the Streamcast dismissal:
- read this article from TMCNet and
- read this article from FierceVoIP

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