ebay, owners of Skype, today announced that they may be forced to shutdown Skype, their popular internet telephony/communications system, because of a licensing dispute.
The Communications Industry reacted with mock dismay at the news.
Industry spokesperson, Elijah P. Mook said “Oh nooo! What will everyone do if Skype shuts down? We will have to develop a new means of talking to each other! We may have to possibly invent some kind of copper or optical fibre based chat system, traveling on a system of wires crisscrossing the globe to deliver sound and data communications almost instantly. Sounds far fetched, and quite possibly impossible to design and construct, not to mention prohibitively expensive, but what choice do we have? We can probably start by tearing up all those useless and messy cables that are currently strung up from huge poles in nearly every street in the world. And those cables that run underground, I don’t know what they’re for, but they take up far too much space, so they will have to go too. We’re going to need a lot of room for our new system. When the cabling infrastructure is ready we could even invent some kind of new person-to-person non-video-based communications devices, possibly small enough to hold in your hand and featuring a series of numbered buttons that you punch in order to connect to the person you wish to speak to. Wow, this is all very far out and hugely speculative, of course. Gee, I hope Skype doesn’t shutdown. Golly geewiz, that would just be too bad.”
Delta Goodrem, currently shooting a commercial for Robbo’s Pet Barn, was reportedly “..angry, very very angry” about the news, although she admitted she doesn’t know what Skype is, or if she has appeared in any commercials for them.
The 40 million users of Skype were unavailable for comment as they were all set to ‘away’.
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