Reply to post: Flawed arguments...

Belgian court fines Skype for failing to intercept criminals' calls in 2012

Frank Bitterlich
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Flawed arguments...

... on both sides, if you ask me.

The "We're not a service provider" argument doesn't hold, unless Skype were a pure peer-to-peer service, which it wasn't at any time. So they did provide a service.

The "offering services in our country" argument is questionable as well. If anybody who does not employ geo-blocking for any internet service or content is considered providing that "in" every country on this planet, then my blog is probably violating the laws of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea right now.

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