EBay, then under Meg Whitman’s rule, apparently failed to buy or properly license a piece of software that’s essential for Skype’s operations when it purchased the Internet telephony service for $3 billion in 2005. Originally called FastTrack and now called GI (for Global Index), it’s owned by Joltid, which Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis control. Several years back, Brilliant Digital, a then LA-based marketing company that the Australian Kevin Bermeister controlled, also owned a piece of Joltid, but that may or may not still be the case. Bermeister owned a controlling interest in Sharman Networks, notorious for operating Kazaa.com, the world’s largest P2P piracy site, which used Joltid’s FastTrack to foster trade of illegally pirated music. Joltid is…