[neonfunk]

No one's going to stop them from doing what's within the law; that's a given. I'm saying it strikes me as unethical, and it assumes a certain infancy in the public's tech acumen... which perhaps there is! But it still seems like a poor assumption to base a business on going forward.

Now I'm just hoping someone comes out with a iChat/AIM/Jabber/GTalk-like P2P standard for voice (does this already exist?).

[viraptor]

Not sure about iChat and AIM, but GTalk already uses an XMPP-based protocol called Jingle. Theoretically you can use it between any 2 jabber clients which support it.