According to the lawsuit:

The Skype companies have continued to infringe Joltid’s copyrighted works on a massive scale. Each day that the Skype Companies continue to make available its Internet telephone software for download, Skype users download Joltid’s copyrighted works approximately six times per second.

That’s a lot of copyright infringing, and a big problem for eBay, which claims to remain on track to sell the company in Q4. Friis and Zennstrom have since been contacting private venture groups in an attempt to buy back the Skype business. However this one shakes out, I’d guess it’s going to be pretty ugly.

Source: Reuters

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I was actually shocked to see such a low price tag on Skype. eBay dropped $3.1 billion on the company back in 2005, but they lowered the price because they said certain synergies weren’t going to work out as planned. Still, Skype makes something like $600 million a year in revenue, so $2.75 billion looks cheap.

The first news of the sale came at the beginning of the year when eBay announced they were preparing Skype for an IPO in 2010. The move was obviously meant to court offers from investment groups, and Silver Lake Partners finally took the bait. There has been no word on whether the new investors will float Skype on the stock market as initially planned.

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