Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

An anonymous reader writes "It appears Microsoft's Skype Division is cracking down on reverse-engineering of the Skype client. Skype recently rolled out a new set of APIs for integration into other desktop applications, but they have issued multiple DMCA takedown notices to a researcher publishing open-source code to send Skype messages."

Serve it on darknets

[GameboyRMH]

If you're working on any kind of software that could piss off large corporations - console hacking, proprietary protocol reverse-engineering, DRM-breaking, etc - host the project on a darknet site anonymously so they can't send you takedown notices or sue you. This should be common sense by now.

Re:Interoperability

[Anonymous Coward]

And note that Microsoft STILL DOES NOT OWN SKYPE.

YES [microsoft.com] IT [microsoft.com] DOES [skype.com].

Stupid lameness filter won't let me yell back at people who yelled first.

Re:RIP Skype

[ca111a]

Skype was like this long before Microsoft. Fring supported video calls to Skype clients for several months, then Skype blocked it: http://blog.fring.com/en/?p=2322 [fring.com]

Re:Interoperability

[ehrichweiss]

Wrong. Since the "u" is pronounced like "you" you use "A"...ala "a user" "a unified field theory". You use "An" in the case of the short sound e.g. "an umbrella" or "an understanding"

Re:Interoperability

[Dunega]

The third correction is justified, the first two were correct as written by the OP.

Re:Skype will now be shunned

[spitzak]

No, M$ is *not* a different way to write Multiple Sclerosis or Mississippi or Master of Science or Morgan Stanley.

It is a common way to abbreviate Microsoft to avoid ambiguity with these others.

It is also entertaining because it makes people with the mentality of 12 year olds go "oh you are so CHILDISH! CHILDISH! CHILDISH because I say so. PBBBBBTTTT! WAAAH I am soooo KOOOL because I said you are "CHILDISH!!!!!"""" Look in the mirror for an example.