I came across MagicJack via Stella Commute’s blog. MagicJack is a USB adapter for your PC which allows you to connect a regular [POTS] telephone with a normal RJ11 connector.

MagicJack charges about $20 a year and allows you to make ‘free’ long distance calls over the internet. Stella Commute is impressed with the system but Cory Doctorow for Boingboing is not.

Doctorow thinks you should read the EULA carefully before signing up for MagicJack.