U.S. company hopes to block Skype in China
Congratulations, Verso.
Although this announcement is not new (I provided a pointer to Verso's Skype-blocking product back in September), it appears we have our first company to come out of the gates since yesterday's announcement by Reporters sans Frontières -- that it was setting up a program in which investment funds and analysts will monitor what Internet firms do in repressive countries, specifically in regards to the application of technologies that impede free speech.
Actually, Verso probably deserves a Weasel Award -- this type of activity ranks right up there on my list with Yahoo!'s complicitity in turning over to the Chinese authorities the name of the dissident that critisized the Chinese goverment.
Sumner Lemon writes in InfoWorld:
Verso Technologies, of Atlanta, Georgia, hopes to soon win a contract to block Chinese Internet users from using eBay's Skype VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software, the company said Monday.
A Chinese telecommunications operator has begun a paid trial of Verso's NetSpective M-Class filter, a product that is designed to block VoIP calls made using Skype, as well as other peer-to-peer applications, Verso said in a statement. If the paid trial now underway in one Chinese city goes well, the operator will purchase the NetSpective M-Class application filter before the end of the year, it said. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2005 07:16:00 AM
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