Rupert Murdoch: I Own The 'Sky' In 'Skype'

The Independent:

Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with the internet telecommunications pioneer Skype, claiming that it owns the "Sky" in "Skype".

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Comments

[keyhoti1]

09:38 AM on 08/22/2010

Sorta off topic, but relevant to all those who complain about having posts deleted.

Seems that one of mine just did, though it's on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and Blogger.

However my point is that I am not complaining - though I can't imagine what I said wrong - and I think it would be better if others didn't complain, because I have found HP to be one of the best sites around and, in any case, it's never happened to me before and several similar comments I've recently made have got straight through, i.e. about Murdoch (see below) and I daresay the same applies to most people.

In any case I don't think there is much room for complaint against HP ... and that is not being sychophantic, just honest.

[kerryfool]

01:01 AM on 08/19/2010

Rupert forgot the Air Force!!!

"Off we go into the wild blue yonder.......into the sky".

[Howzat]

09:49 PM on 08/13/2010

I think you also own the TRI in TRIPE

[Howzat]

09:49 PM on 08/13/2010

I think you alsoown the TRi in Tripe eh!!!

[VeroucaSalt]

07:42 PM on 08/13/2010

OMG. Somebody please put this old man out of our misery.

[keyhoti1]

08:55 AM on 08/22/2010

My sentiments exactly. F&F

[Robert Cantor]

06:17 PM on 08/13/2010

"last night the wife said,
oh boy when you're dead,
don't take nothing with you but your soul"

[Jeff in Dracut]

02:28 PM on 08/13/2010

And you can't spell Fox News without Fox: Ew

[exPatPatti]

09:05 AM on 08/13/2010

He is a soulless, greedy sonofa* and I applaud my adopted country Australia for forcing him out. Too bad my citizen country gave him a home.

[keyhoti1]

08:59 AM on 08/22/2010

I agree, except that we didn't force him out - or no way I'm aware of.

Seems to me that Australia got to small (in population) for his giant ego, greed and megalomania.

[NestofViperss]

06:53 PM on 08/12/2010

did skype turn him down in a merger or something???
the old coot is a vindictive S.O.B

[keyhoti1]

09:13 AM on 08/22/2010

Probably not. He just wants anything he can lay his grubby hands on, by any foul means he thinks will work.

Trouble is he has the luck of the devil ... so far at least ... though he has acquired several dubious 'assets', like the "Times" of London and a few more I can't think of off hand. So maybe he'll come undone yet.

At least we have the consolation that he is mortal and will depart some time ... and I bet no one else can step into his shoes and hold his empire together.

I don't wish him dead exactly. I've never got to quite that position with anyone, but I sure don't wish him well.

[byoungusa]

02:39 PM on 08/12/2010

what doesn't the old Far* think he owns?

[RobinSeattle]

10:50 AM on 08/12/2010

In related news, News Corp is also suing the rock groups Bad Company and The Jam for defamation due to their songs "The Sky is Burning" and "Burning Sky" respectively.News Corp, insists that its satellite property is not in flames.

Furthermore, they are also demanding back royalties from singer Eric Burdon for his 1970-'s solo hit "Sky Pilot," claiming that the former Animals member is falsely claiming to run the company when it is, in fact, Rupert Murdoch who is its honcho.

[JavaManiac]

09:32 AM on 08/12/2010

Words I refuse to use in language - SKY - FOX - and Patriot.

Murdoch has ruined those words for me.

[mariusvinchi]

06:39 AM on 08/12/2010

Next week he's challenging anyone who uses the word "news"....

[ktomas]

07:40 PM on 08/11/2010

Murdoch is almost certain to lose on this matter in any courtroom, unless he manages to bribe a judge.

[kfdan]

06:40 PM on 08/11/2010

Murdoch's claim is preposterous! No one confuses sky with skype as no one confuses pie with pipe! Skype is both a noun and a verb as in ... I'll skype you tonight.