On 2007-04-12, Abo <no@spam.thanks> wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> that there could be more than one country involved
>
> Yeah, that's what started me thinking about it. I bet the police would
> get frustrated and give up, unless there was some *serious* crime
> involved. Maybe in that case they'd work with their foreign
> counterparts. There's nothing like a free trip abroad

Actually I wouldn't count on this being all that difficult for the
police. The police wouldn't necessarily know the call came from a Skype
user, but they'd certainly know which carrier delivered the call to the
UK phone network (for Skype I think this is Cable & Wireless), and would
ask them. I doubt Cable & Wireless is limited to Skype's support channel,
and would probably have a way to obtain the information Skype knows about
the originator of the call for law enforcement purposes. I don't know
about the UK, but in other countries it wouldn't be legal for a
carrier to deliver calls for Skype if a call's origin couldn't be
located by the carrier in a reasonable hurry.

Dennis Ferguson