A company owned by the founders of Skype called Joltid has filed a copyright suit against eBay and a group of investors that plan to buy Skype from eBay for USD 2 billion deal. Joltid, which is owned by Skype's founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, has filed an injunction against Skype and is seeking damages for copyright infringements in a US District Court, the Wall Street Journal reported. Joltid claims that it owns the rights for the use of a peer-to-peer technology called 'global index' utilised in Skype, which is the subject of an intellectual property dispute with Skype since March. The technology is used at the core of Skype's software. Joltid terminated Skype's licence for the software in March, and the two companies have since been involved in a suit about that termination in a UK court. Besides damages for copyright infringements, Joltid also seeks profits that Skype has made while using the technology in breach of its licence. Joltic claims that eBay's altering and misuse of their code could total more than USD 75 million per day in damages. An eBay spokesman said the company "hadn't seen the complaint, and will be reviewing it accordingly." Andreessen Horowitz, one of the proposed investors in Skype, declined to comment. The other investors named in the suit didn't immediately return requests for comment.
